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Program Minisymposium 2026


Program is preliminary and will grow. Please send your suggested contribution to one of the organizers (title is sufficient). Thanks!


Oral talks (invited):

9:10 - 9:15; Erik H. Saenger: Intro and Welcome
9:20 – 10:20; Rune Holt (NTNU & SINTEF) and Erling Fjær (SINTEF): Relating lab reality to field reality (long joint presentation)
Here you can download the corresponding presentation and references of Rune and Erling. Thanks for the material!
10:20 – 10:50; Jess McBeck (NTNU): Predicting fault development in rifted margins using energy optimization

11:00 - 13:00; POSTER BREAK AND LUNCH

13:00 – 13:30; Philip Ringrose (NTNU): Flow physics insights from Full waveform inversion (FWI) at Sleipner
13:30 – 14:00; Alexandre Lavrov (NTNU): Hydraulic fracturing pressure: what is dismissed in current models?
14:00 – 14:30; Per Avseth (Dig Technology, Oslo) “Fluid sensitivities in heterogeneous reservoirs”

15:00 -17:00; POSTER BREAK AND FINAL OPEN DISCUSSION

Posters:
Samuel Chapman (ENS): Frequency-Dependent Elastic Properties of partially saturated Tournemire Shale
Michail Kattis (NTNU): Modeling of chalk liquefaction in a drawdown experiment
Lucas Pimienta and Beatriz Quintal (University of Lausanne): Forced-oscillation measurements over a broad frequency range
Shohreh Iraji (Danish Offshore Technology Centre, DTU, Denmark): Closing the porosity gap: The role of surface-bound water in fine-grained sediments
Bastien Dupuy (SINTEF): Multiphysics inversion of CO2 storage pressure and fluid saturation
Nicolas Barbosa (SINTEF) and Jess McBeck (NTNU): Coupled seismic and hydraulic evolution of a synthetic fault during pressure cycling.
Jiaxin Yu (UiT): Tracking Rock Microstructure Evolution Using Computational Topology: Implications for Rock Physics Modeling and Geophysical Monitoring
Hamid Madadi and Holger Steeb (U Stuttgart): Coupling Dynamic Mechanical Analysis and High-Frequency Fatigue with In Situ µXRCT Characterization
Holger Steeb (U Stuttgart): JoDaKISS: Journal of Knowledge- and Data-intgrated Simulation Science
Mathis Verdan (SINTEF, Mines Paris): Machine learning methods for identifying wellbore failure modes using borehole seismic data
Debanjan Chandra (NTNU):Ultrasonic indicators of coupled stress and fluid perturbation during CO2 injection in a depleted saline aquifer
Jordao Saide and Alexey Stovas (NTNU): Sensitivity of singularity points to fracture weaknesses for vertically fractured transversely isotropic media.
Angelly Serje (Hochschule Bochum): Estimating rock properties from drill cuttings: A digital rock physics workflow

Attending organizers:
Holger Steeb (Universität Stuttgart)
Beatriz Quintal (Université de Lausanne)
Nicolas Barbosa (SINTEF)
Bastien Dupuy (SINTEF)
Erik H. Saenger (Hochschule Bochum)