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\section*{Authors}

\noindent The SPECFEM3D package was first developed by Dimitri
Komatitsch and Jean-Pierre Vilotte at Institut de Physique du Globe
(IPGP) in Paris, France from 1995 to 1997 and then by Dimitri Komatitsch
and Jeroen Tromp at Harvard University and Caltech, USA, starting in 1998.
The story started on April 4, 1995, when Prof. Yvon Maday from CNRS and University of Paris, France, gave a lecture to
Dimitri Komatitsch and Jean-Pierre Vilotte at IPG about the nice properties of the Legendre spectral-element method with diagonal mass matrix that he had used for
other equations. We are deeply indebted and thankful to him for that.
That followed a visit by Dimitri Komatitsch to OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale) in Trieste, Italy, in February 1995
to meet with G\'eza Seriani and Enrico Priolo, who introduced him to their 2D Chebyshev version of the spectral-element method with a non-diagonal mass matrix.
We are deeply indebted and thankful to them for that.\newline


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Since then it has been developed and maintained by a development team: in alphabetical order,
Michael Afanasiev,
Rafael Almada,
Jean-Paul (Pablo) Ampuero,
\'Etienne Bachmann,
Kangchen Bai,
Piero Basini,
Stephen Beller,
Jordan Bishop,
C\'eline Blitz,
Alexis Bottero,
Ebru Bozda\u{g},
Emanuele Casarotti,
Joseph Charles,
Min Chen,
Paul Cristini,
Cl\'ement Durochat,
Percy Galvez,
Rahul Garg,
Rene Gassmoeller,
Hom Nath Gharti,
Dominik G\"oddeke,
Leopold Grinberg,
Aakash Gupta,
Vala Hj\"orleifsd\'ottir,
Foivos Karakostas,
Sue Kientz,
Dimitri Komatitsch,
Jes\'us Labarta,
Nicolas Le Goff,
Pieyre Le Loher,
Matthieu Lefebvre,
Qinya Liu,
Youshan Liu,
David Luet,
Yang Luo,
Alessia Maggi,
Federica Magnoni,
Roland Martin,
Ren\'e Matzen,
Geordie McBain,
Dennis McRitchie,
Matthias Meschede,
Peter Messmer,
David Mich\'ea,
Ryan Modrak,
Vadim Monteiller,
Christina Morency,
Surendra Nadh Somala,
Masaru Nagaso,
Tarje Nissen-Meyer,
Elif Oral,
Daniel Peter,
Kevin Pouget,
Max Rietmann,
Elliott Sales de Andrade,
Brian Savage,
Bernhard Schuberth,
Anne Sieminski,
James Smith,
Leif Strand,
Carl Tape,
Jeroen Tromp,
Eduardo Valero Cano,
Brice Videau,
Jean-Pierre Vilotte,
Huihui Weng,
Zhinan Xie,
Chang-Hua Zhang,
Hejun Zhu.\newline

The cover graphic of the manual was created by Santiago Lombeyda from
Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR), USA, with free satellite clipart pictures
from \url{http://www.4vector.com} and \url{http://www.clker.com} added to it.\newline

The code is released open-source under the GNU version 3 license, see the license at the end of this manual.\newline