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Draft Workshop Agenda

Agenda for June 22-26 Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Crustal Deformation and Earthquake Faulting.

Please send suggested revisions to Brad Aagaard.

Location: Student Center Ballrooms A and B (2nd floor)

Monday

7:30am - 8:00am
Continental breakfast
8:00am - 8:15am
Introduction and overview of workshop, Brad Aagaard

Introduction and poster summaries

8:15am - 8:30am
Participant introductions (~1/2 min per person)
  • Why am I here?
  • What research problems/areas am I interested in?
8:30am - 9:00am
Poster summaries

Each person with a poster will present an overview of their poster (1 slide and 5 min per person)

9:00am - 9:30am
Break

Fault Rheology

9:30am - 10:30am
Jean-Philippe AvouacInferring fault friction properties and their spatial variability from the joint analysis of geodetic and seismological data (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
10:30am - 11:30am
Chris MaroneThe strength and rheology of brittle fault zones (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Paul SegallSlow and fast slip: coupled friction-elasticity-dilatancy with pore-fluid and thermal transport (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Modeling Code Tutorials

2:00pm - 2:15pm
Brad AagaardIntroduction to PyLith
2:15pm - 2:30pm
Jay ParkerIntroduction to GeoFEST
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Break
2:45pm - 3:15pm
Brad AagaardPyLith 1.4 (30 min tutorial)
3:15pm - 3:45pm
Jay Parker and Greg Lyzenga, "GeoFEST" (30 min tutorial)
3:45pm - 5:00pm
Tinker Time
5:00pm - 6:00pm
General poster session

Dinner on your own

Tuesday

7:30am - 8:00am
Continental breakfast

Fault Slip and Bulk Rheology

8:00am - 9:00am
Eric HetlandInterseismic deformation in models with stress dependent fault creep (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
9:00am - 10:00am
Kaj Johnson3D Viscoelastic Earthquake Cycle Models: Estimating fault slip rates, locking distribution, elastic/viscous properites of lithosphere/asthenosphere (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
10:00am - 10:30am
Break
10:30am - 11:30am
Robert ViescaPlasticity in rupture dynamics: What role does pore fluid play (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Meshing and Adpative Mesh Refinement

11:30am - 12:30pm
Wolfgang BangerthAdaptive mesh refinement: Theory, practice, and applications in Geodynamics (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Tour of USGS NEIC

Meshing Software Tutorials

2:45pm - 4:00pm
Carl Gable "LaGriT" (60 min tutorial)
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Rowena Lohman "CUBIT" (60 min tutorial)
  • Presentation
  • Meshing example - Very short example of meshing a pyramid and displaying mesh
  • Geometry testExample of building geometrical shapes with merging, subtracting, moving, etc.
  • Fault exampleExample of building and meshing (coarsely) a region around a dipping fault patch
5:00pm - 6:00pm
General poster session

Dinner on your own

Wednesday

7:30am - 8:00am
Continental breakfast

Transient Crustal Deformation

8:00am - 9:00am
Mike Oskin Evidence for elevated shear-zone loading rate during earthquake clusters in eastern California (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
9:00am - 10:00am
Reid CooperTransient Rheology: Lab Experiments, Materials Theory and the Challenges of Spatiotemporal Scaling (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
10:15am - 10:45am
Break

Numerical Codes and Verification

10:45am - 11:30am
Mark SimonsEstablishing Community Versions of Semi-analytic codes
11:30am - 12:15pm
Charles Williams "Discussion: Community Benchmarks for Code Verification"
  • What problems should we use to test our current and new 3-D codes?
  • What problems can we use to serve as targets for application of new features/codes?
  • What semi-analytic codes can we compare against?
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch

Constraining Rheologies through Modeling

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Elizabeth HearnModeling coseismic deformation of compliant fault zones to estimate stress in the upper crust (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Tabrez AliModeling contemporary deformation in Southern Alaska (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Break
3:15pm - 5:30pm
Tinker Time

Dinner on your own

Thursday

7:30am - 8:00am
Continental breakfast

Non-earthquake Related Deformation

8:00am - 9:00am
Roger Buck Preliminary models of deformation surrounding the ongoing dike intrusion episode on the Dabbahu Segment, Afar, Ethiopia (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
9:00am - 10:00am
Peter Cervelli "Developing a modular, community-supported deformation analysis and modeling system" (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
10:00am - 10:30am
Break

3-D Fault Mechanics

10:30am - 11:30am
Ole KavenThree-dimensional geometry of a fault slip surface: Implications for the mechanics of non-planar faults (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Wrap-up

11:30am - 12:00pm
Brad Aagaard
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Informal PyLith Discussion
1:00pm - 5:30pm
Tinker Time

Dinner on your own

Friday

8:30am - 12:00pm
PyLith Tutorial
12:00pm - 3:00pm
Tinker time

Dedicated time for installing software, including GeoFest, PyLith, LaGriT, etc. Code developers will be on hand to help you install these codes on your laptop. This is also a good time to try running example problems or benchmarks that are distributed with respective codes. This is also an opportunity for informal collaboration.

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