• Earthquake physics: earthquake rupture process, source parameter inversion, triggering of earthquakes, fluid related earthquakes, volcanic earthquakes, seismicity, mining related seismicity.
• Physics of fractures: emplacement, slow dislocations, fracture related intrusion, effective parameter, hydraulic fracturing, fluid- and pressure in the sub-ground.
• Theoretical and experimental seismology: wave propagation and wavefield inversion, structural and velocity tomography, damping, ambient vibrations, surface wave studies, microseisms and noise.
• Broadband ocean bottom seismology: marine seismicity, muddy seafloor, seafloor compliance, seafloor tilt

Teaching experience

If not otherwise indicated written lecture notes (pdf files) accompany my lectures, which were developed and improved over years.

• Introduction to geophysics (B.Sc. 4SWS + 2Ü), yearly from 2002 - 2012: Entstehung der Planeten und der Erde, Schalenaufbau der Erde, Plattentektonik, Plattengrenzen und -kinematik, Tripelpunkte, Krustenbildung, Antrieb der Plattentektonik, Erdmagnetfeld, vertikale Bewegungen und Ausgleich, Temperaturverteilung, Isostasie, Schwerefeld der Erde, Geoid, Schweremessung und Gravimeter, Schwereauswertung, Magnetik, remanente Magnetisierung, Magnetometer, magnetische Auswertung, Gleichstromelektrik, Magnetotellurik, Georadar, Diffraktionen, seismische Quellen, Reflexionsseismik, CMP-Stapelung, Refraktionsseismik, Erdbeben, Herdparameter, Lokalisierung von Erdbeben, Herdlösungen, Erdbeben-Statistik, probabilistische Vorhersage.
• Travel-time seismology (2SWS + 2Ü), ˜ yearly from 2000 - 2012: Koordinatensystem auf der Erde, krummlinige Koordinaten, Rotation von Seismogrammen, Seismische Strahlen, theoretische und beobachtete Laufzeitkurven, Strahlparameter, Numerische Berechnung von Laufzeitkurven und Raytracing, Amplituden von seismischen Strahlen, Flache Erde Transformation, Seismische Arrays und Beamforming, f-k Analyse und Wellenzahlfilterung, Vespagramme, Wiechert Herglotz Inverison, tau-p Inversion, Tomographie, Lokalisieren von Erdbeben, Geiger Methode, Joint Hypocenter, Master Even Methode, Joint Inversion.
• Body and surface waves seismology (2 SWS + 1Ü) in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011: Gleichungen der flexiblen Saite, Fourierdarstellung transienter Signale, Eigenschwingungen und freie Moden in 1D, Gleichungen und freie Moden der Membran, Numerische Integration der 1D Feldgleichung, Membrane Surface Waves, Deformation, Spannung, Feldgleichungen des Kontinuums, Spannungs-Dehnung, Wellengleichungen, GEMINI, Reflexion an der freien Oberfläche, Rayleigh Wellen, flüssig-fest Grenzschicht, fest-fest Grenzschicht, Compliance des Halbraums, Punkquellenanregung der Compliance, Raumwellen in der geschichteten Erde, Lithosphären und Asthenosphären Untersuchung, Love Wellen, Rayleighwellen in geschichteten Medien, Ambient Vibrations und H/V, Anregung von Oberflächenwellen, Dispersionanalysen, Anelastische Dämpfung, Bestimmung von Q.
• Fractures, Rupture, Earthquakes (2 SWS + 1Ü) in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011: Elastic behavior of rocks, constitutive relations, porous media, stress in the earth, brittle behavior of rocks, uniaxial strength, shear strength, slope failure in submarine saturated soils and factor of safety, Coulomb concept of internal friction, Griffith concept and fracture toughness, Point source Green functions, moment tensor, source spectra, directivity and corner frequency, stress drop of earthquakes, particle velocity, scaling of rupture time, apparent stress and seismic energy, different methods to measure rupture velocity, rupture morphology, kinematic waveform inversion, dynamic rupture, self-similar solutions including nucleation and stopping of rupture.
• Inversions problems in geophysics (2SWS + 1Ü), yearly from 2000 - 2012: Method of least squares, weighted damped least squares, generalized inverse, cut-off method and ridge regression, F-test, equality and inequality constraints, sequential least squares, gradient methods, steepest descend, Newton method, Gauss method, Marquardt method, variable metric method, conjugate gradient method, linear programming, bootstrap method, confidence intervals, grid search methods, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms.
• Seismological data recording (2 SWS + 1Ü) in 2003, together with Robert Patzig: Seismic sensors, seismometer, tilt meter, strain meter, poles and zeros, AD conversion, DCF77 time signal, PC-based data acquisition.
• Grundlagen der Mathematischen Geopyhsik in 2001: after Müller, Frankfurt.

International training courses / summer schools

• ESC training course: Moment tensor inversion (2000, Erlangen, Germany)•    ESC training course: Moment tensor inversion – a practical for beginners (2005, Potsdam, Germany). T. Dahm, F. Krüger, K. Stammler. X. Yuan
• IUGG international training course:  Array Seismology (2007). Th. Braun, T. Dahm. F. Krüger, M. Ohrnberger, J. Schweitzer, K. Stammler.
• Study of seismic swarms associated with fluid intrusions. Lecturer at the International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) workshop on “Seismic Waves Generation, Propagation and Inversion in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010.