Thesis

  • PhD. Earthquake Source Mechanics and Wave Propagation in Sedimentary Basins. Carnegie Mellon University, 2008. Advisor: Jacobo Bielak.
  • M.S. Approximate Green's Functions for a Heterogeneous Medium. Derivation and Applications. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2002. Advisor: Francisco J. Sanchez-Sesma.
  • B.S. Earth and Rock fill Dams Seismic Response Simulation. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2001. Advisor: Francisco J. Sanchez-Sesma.

Journal Papers

  1. Hartzell, S., L.Ramirez-Guzman, L. Carver, and P-C Liu (2010). Short Baseline Variations in Site Response and Wave Propagation Effects and Their Structural Causes: Four Examples in and around the Santa Clara Valley, California, Bull Seismol. Soc. Am. Vol 10 5A 2264-2286.
  2. Bielak J., R.W. Graves, K.B. Olsen, R. Taborda, L. Ramirez-Guzman, S.M. Day, G.P. Ely, D. Roten, T.H. Jordan, P.J. Maechling, J. Urbanic and G. Juve (2010). The ShakeOut earthquake Scenario: Verification of three simulation sets, Geophys. J. Int., Vol 180, 375-404.
  3. F. Luzon, F. J. Sanchez-Sesma, J. Alfonso Perez-Ruiz, L. Ramirez-Guzman and A. Pech (2009). In-plane Seismic Response of Inhomogeneous Alluvial Valleys with Vertical Gradients of Velocities and Constant Poisson ratio, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol 29, 994-1004.
  4. Day, S. M., R. W. Graves, J. Bielak, D. Dreger, S. Larsen, K. B. Olsen, A. Pitarka, and L. Ramirez-Guzman (2008). Model for Basin Effects on Long-period Response Spectra in Southern California, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 24, 257-277.
  5. Luzon, F., L. Ramirez, F. J. Sanchez-Sesma and A. Posadas (2004).Simulation of the Seismic Response of Sedimentary Basins with Vertical Constant Gradient of Velocity, Pure and Applied Geophys., Vol. 12, 1533-1547.
  6. Luzon, F., L. Ramirez, F. J. Sanchez-Sesma and A. Posadas (2003). Propagation of SH elastic waves in deep Sedimentary Basins with an Oblique Velocity Gradient, Wave Motion, Vol. 38, 11-23.

Conference Papers

  1. Lopez, J., L. Ramirez-Guzman, J. Bielak, and D. O'Hallaron (2010). BEMC: A Searchable, Compressed Representation for Seismic Wavefields, 22nd Int. Conf on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'10), Heidelberg, Germany.
  2. Goto, H., Leonardo Ramirez-Guzman and J. Bielak (2008). Numerical simulation of dynamic fault rupture propagation based on a combination of BIEM and FEM solutions, 14th WCEE, Beijing, China.
  3. Onur, T., L. Ramirez-Guzman, J. Bielak, M. Contreras, M. Masuda, H. Juarez, J. Aguirre, G. Vasudha. (2008). Use of 3D Ground Moition Simulations in Estimating Future Economic Loss in Mexico City, 14th WCEE, Beijing, China.
  4. Ramirez-Guzman L., M. Contreras, J. Bielak and J. Aguirre (2007). Three-Dimensional Simulation of Long-Period ( >1.5 sec) Earthquake ground motion in the Valley of Mexico: BASIN EFFECTS, Fourth International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  5. Tu, T., H. Yu, L. Ramirez-Guzman, J. Bielak,O. Ghattas, K.L. Ma and D. O'Hallaron (2006). From Mesh Generation to Scientific Visualization: An End-to-End Approach to Parallel Supercomputing , ACM/IEEE SC2006, Tampa, FL.
  6. Day, S. M., J. Bielak, D. Dreger, R. Graves, S. Larsen, K. B. Olsen, A. Pitarka, and L. Ramirez-Guzman (2006). Numerical simulation of basin effects on long-period ground motion, Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Earthquake Engineering , San Francisco, CA.