Logistical support

Most of my research will involve applied mathematics and some computer programming, I already have access to most of the tools I need, including books, journals, computer, Mathematica, Fortran compiler, plotting software, and L^ATEX and related tools. If later in the course of the Ph.D. thesis it is deemed desirable to check my theoretical results against real data over known geology, perhaps one of The Geomechanics Project's supporting companies would provide it free of charge in exchange for first access to my results of testing such real data against my modelling methods.

My supervisory committee will be here much of the time during the research period and when a member is away interaction can continue via e-mail. I expect to confer with visitors to some degree as well, for instance during the 11th IWSA conference late this coming July. In addition, I can communicate by e-mail and by math newsgroups with remote mathematicians knowledgeable in the area of FIOs, as I have already done to a minor degree. Similar correspondence is possible with remote experts in seismic ray theory and/or anisotropy.