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Workshop Agenda

Agenda for June 24-28, 2013, Crustal Deformation Modeling Tutorial. Sessions will be held Monday June 24, Wednesday June 26, and Friday June 28.

Please send suggested revisions to Brad Aagaard.

Pre-workshop Help Session, Wednesday June 19, 1:00pm-3:00pm PDT

This help session will be a Q&A session to help users new to PyLith, CUBIT, and ParaView get started. We will expect that you come prepared with questions.


Session Schedule

Schedule A

Two sessions will be held each day on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for participants in North and South America, Europe, and western Asia at

  • 9:00am-11:00am (PDT, San Francisco)
    • 11:00am-1:00pm (CDT, Chicago)
    • 12:00pm-2:00pm (EDT, New York)
    • 5:00pm-7:00pm (BST, London)
    • 6:00pm-8:00pm (CEST, Paris, Rome)
    • 7:00pm-9:00pm (EEST, Istanbul)
  • 1:00pm-3:00pm (PDT, San Francisco)
    • 3:00pm-5:00pm (CDT, Chicago)
    • 4:00pm-6:00pm (EDT, New York)
    • 9:00pm-11:00pm (BST, London)
    • 10:00pm-12:00am (CEST, Paris, Rome)
    • 11:00pm-1:00am (EEST, Istanbul)

Schedule B

Two sessions will be held each day on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for participants in eastern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand at

  • 4:00pm-6:00pm (Sun, Tue, Thu PDT, San Francisco)
    • 7:00am-9:00am (Mon, Wed, Fri SGT, Singapore)
    • 8:00am-10:00am (JST, Tokyo)
    • 11:00am-1:00pm (NZST, Wellington)
  • 8:00pm-10:00pm (Sun, Tue, Thu PDT, San Francisco)
    • 11:00am-1:00pm (Mon, Wed, Fri SGT, Singapore)
    • 12:00pm-2:00pm (JST, Tokyo)
    • 3:00pm-5:00pm (NZST, Wellington)

Q & A Log from online sessions


Downloadable movies use the H264 codec and play on most movie applications and plugins.

* All movies are now viewable on CIG's YouTube Channel [Schedule A] [Schedule B]

Times listed for each session below are for Schedule A in the PDT time zone (San Francisco) for convenience.

Monday - Intermediate Tutorials

These tutorials are designed for users that have become familiar with PyLith, CUBIT, and ParaView from viewing the other tutorials and/or attending previous workshops. Users are expected to have at least read the PyLith manual and run some of the examples. These tutorials will review the main features of CUBIT and PyLith and introduce users to new PyLith features.

Session I: PyLith, CUBIT, and Paraview Refresher

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule A (incomplete), Schedule B)

    Downloadable movies*
9:00am - 9:15am Introduction and overview of tutorials (slides) not recorded Schedule B (36 MB)
9:15am - 9:45am PyLith Overview (slides) Schedule A (61 MB, incomplete) Schedule B (110 MB)
9:45am - 11:00am CUBIT, PyLith, and ParaView Example
  CUBIT Schedule A (38 MB) Schedule B (33 MB)
  PyLith Schedule A (65 MB) Schedule B (56 MB)
  ParaView Schedule A (35 MB) Schedule B (62 MB)

Session II: Intermediate CUBIT Meshing Strategies

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule ASchedule B)

    Downloadable movies*
1:00pm - 1:10pm Overview (slides) Schedule A (16 MB) Schedule B (9 MB)
1:10pm - 1:45pm 2-D Nonplanar Geometry (slides) Schedule A (88 MB) Schedule B (96 MB)
1:45pm - 2:15pm 3-D Meshing Strategies Schedule A (105 MB) Schedule B (93 MB)
2:15pm - 3:00pm Discretization Size via Field Schedule A (104 MB) Schedule B (96 MB)

Wednesday - Advanced Tutorials

These tutorials build upon the tutorials from Mon and are designed for users that want to use more advanced features of PyLith.

Session III: Static Green's Functions for 3-D Earth Structure

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule ASchedule B)

    Downloadable movies*
9:00am - 9:15am Overview (slides) Schedule A (18 MB) Schedule B (19 MB)
9:15am - 10:15am 2-D Reverse Faulting Example Schedule A (178 MB) Schedule B (158 MB)
10:15am - 10:40am 3D Strike-Slip Faulting Example Schedule A (51 MB) Schedule B (70 MB)
10:40am - 11:00am Troubleshooting Schedule A (78 MB) Schedule B (95 MB)

Session IV: Optimizing Solver Parameters

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule A minor audio problems, Schedule B minor audio problems)

Solver parameter .cfg files discussed in this session: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

 

    Downloadable movies*
9:00am - 9:45am Linear Solvers and Preconditioners (slides) Schedule A (79 MB) Schedule B (81 MB)
9:45am - 10:00am Examples with Linear Solver Schedule A (91 MB) Schedule B (96 MB)
10:00am - 10:30am Nonlinear Solver Schedule A (36 MB) Schedule B (45 MB)
10:30am - 11:00am Troubleshooting and Q & A Schedule A (95 MB) Schedule B (28 MB)

Friday - Advanced Tutorials (cont.)

These tutorials build upon the tutorials from Mon and are designed for users that want to use more advanced features of PyLith.

Session V: Fault Friction

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule ASchedule B)

    Downloadable movies*
1:00pm - 1:30pm Overview (slides) Schedule A (56 MB) Schedule B (48 MB)
1:30pm - 2:15pm Quasi-static Example Schedule A (111 MB) Schedule B (144 MB)
2:15pm - 2:40pm Dynamic Example Schedule A (58 MB) Schedule B (73 MB)
2:40pm - 3:00pm Troubleshooting and Q&A Schedule A (28 MB) Schedule B (30 MB)

Session VI: Running PyLith in Parallel

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule ASchedule B)

    Downloadable movies*
1:00pm - 1:30pm Running on a Desktop (slides) Schedule A (60 MB) Schedule B (66 MB)
1:30pm - 2:00pm Running on a Cluster Schedule A (77 MB) Schedule B (91 MB)
2:00pm - 2:30pm Submitting Batch Jobs Schedule A (91 MB) Schedule B (103 MB)
2:30pm - 3:00pm Q & A   Schedule B (74 MB)
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