Georgia Institute of TechnologySchool of Earth and Atmospheric Science
INFORMATION ABOUT

Jaime Andres Convers

Graduate Student

Office: ES&T 2106
Email: jaime.convers@eas.gatech.edu
Curriculum vitae: View
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Newman

Education:

  • Ph.D. graduate student in The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
  • M.Sc. Physics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
  • B.Sc.Physics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota Colombia

Research Interests:

  • Seismic data acquisition, processing and analysis. Time series analysis, earthquake early warning, earthquake deformation and geodesy

Publications:

Convers, J. A. & A. V. Newman (in prep), A revised Energy/Moment catalog and tsunami earthquake identification

Newman. A. V., A rapid Energy-Duration Discriminant for Very Large and Tsunami Earthquakes. Paper submitted to Geophysical Review letters

AGU fall meeting, (San Francisco, 2007). Presentation: An improved global Energy to Moment Ratio catalog: More Events, Stations, and rupture durations

Workshop to integrate subduction factory and seismogenic zone studies in Central America (Costa Rica, 2007). Poster: Earthquake Energy: A Reanalysis of M>5.5 Earthquake Rupture Energies in Central America, and Rapid Assessment of Large Earthquake Durations.

Georgia Institute of Technology. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Symposium (Atlanta, GA, 2007). Presentation: The global seismic energy to moment ratio: a tool for basic research and real-time identification of “Tsunami Earthquakes”