Crustal Deformation Modeling Workshop Agenda
Agenda for the June 10-14, 2019, Crustal Deformation Modeling Tutorials and Workshop
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Presentation Slides and Videos
Slides and videos for Mon-Tue tutorials
Slides for Wed-Fri science presentations
Tutorials
About 60% of the time will be devoted to tutorial lectures with instructors providing background information and running examples. The other 40% of the time will be devoted to "tinker time" during which participants can run the examples at their own pace, develop their own simulations, and get help from the instructors.
A description of the software tools and general workflow used in crustal deformation modeling is available in the Short-Term Crustal Dynamics Work Area under General Information. Tutorials will cover the use of PyLith, CUBIT/Trelis, and ParaView. There will also be discussion of some other modeling tools during the Science Talks.
Beginner Tutorials
Beginner tutorials for PyLith and CUBIT/Trelis will not be offered at the workshop. Beginner users should work through the extensive set of examples in the PyLith manual and online tutorial.
Wednesday June, 5, 2:30pm PDT: PyLith, CUBIT/Trelis, and ParaView Help Session
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/121381451
This online help session is intended to answer questions from users and resolve problems encountered during installation or running simple examples. The format will be an interactive Q&A session.
Monday - Intermediate Tutorials
These tutorials will provide a discussion of intermediate PyLith/CUBIT topics. Prior to the workshop users should have installed the software and worked through the examples provided in the PyLith manuals.
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Mines Market
- 8:00am - 8:15am
- Introduction and overview of tutorials, Brad Aagaard
- 8:15am - 9:30am
- PyLith v3.0, Brad Aagaard
- 9:30am - 10:45am
- Meshing with CUBIT/Trelis, Charles Williams
- 10:45am - 12:00pm
- Group Exercise
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- Materials and boundary conditions, Brad Aagaard
- 2:30pm - 4:30pm
- Group Exercise
- 4:30pm - 5:30pm
- Troubleshooting simulations I, Brad Aagaard
- 5:30pm
- Dinner on your own
Tuesday - Intermediate Tutorials
These tutorials will build upon the topics discussed on Monday.
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Mines Market
- 8:00am - 8:05am
- Overview of tutorials, Brad Aagaard
- 8:05am - 9:30am
- Faults with prescribed slip, Brad Aagaard
- 9:30am - 11:00am
- Tinker time
Dedicated time for running example problems or benchmarks that are distributed with respective codes. This is the primary opportunity to interact with developers one-on-one.
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Gravitational body forces, Charles Williams
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Tinker time
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Meshing with complex geometry, Charles Williams
- 3:30pm - 5:30pm
- Tinker time
- 5:30pm
- Dinner on your own
Wednesday - Science Talks and Discussions
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Mines Market
- 8:00am - 8:15am
- Introduction and overview of workshop, Brad Aagaard
- 8:15am - 8:30am
- Participant introductions
- 8:30am - 10:30am
- Session I
- Emily Montgomery-Brown (USGS) The 2018 eruption of Kilauea Volcano: complex and large-scale deformation
- Han Bao (UCLA) The stimulus we gained from the 2018 Mw 7.5 Palu Earthquake
- 10:30am - 11:00am
- Break
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Session II
- Luca Dal Zilio (Caltech) The influence of tectonics on seismicity of mountain belts: A case study from the Himalayas
- 12:00pm - 12:10pm
- Airport transportation optimization (for departing)
- 12:10pm - 12:45pm
- Lunch
- 12:45pm - 2:00pm
- Tinker time
- 2:00pm - 3:15pm
- Lightning talks
- 3:15pm - 5:15pm
- Poster session and tinker time
- 5:15pm
- Dinner on your own
Thursday - Science Talks and Discussions
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Mines Market
- 8:00am - 9:00am
- Session III
- Elizabeth Hearn (Capstone Geophysics) The SCEC Community Rheology Model
- 9:00am - 10:00am
- Breakout Discussion
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- What is the simplest CRM that would be useful, i.e., what is a good target for an initial release that would be useful to the community?
- What are the priorities for adding more complexity beyond an initial release?
- A query tool is also being developed to make the SCEC Community Fault Model (CFM) easier to use. What file formats do deformation modelers prefer for fault surfaces? Any requests for future updates to this tool?
- 10:00am - 10:30am
- Break
- 10:30am - 11:30am
- Reports from breakout discussions
- 11:30am - 12:00pm
- Session IV
- Eric Hetland (Univ. of Michigan) Overview of InSAR data repositories and tools
- 12:00pm - 12:45pm
- Lunch
- 12:45pm - 2:00pm
- Tinker Time
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Session V
- Qiu Qiang (USC) Probing mechanical properties of subduction zones using space geodetic observations
- Kelin Wang (Geological Survey of Canada) Viscoelastic stress relaxation following great subduction earthquakes
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Poster Session and tinker time
- 5:30pm
- Dinner on your own
Friday - Science Talks and Discussions
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Mines Market
- 8:00am - 10:00am
- Session VI
- Luc Lavier (Univ. of Texas, Austin) Simulation of earthquakes in finite thickness fault zones in models of long term tectonic deformation
- Kali Allison (Univ. Of Maryland) The interaction between ductile shear zones and the seismogenic crust
- 10:00am - 10:30am
- Break
- 10:30am - 11:30am
- Session VII
- Baptiste Rousset (UC Berkeley) Insights on the slip rates at the down-dip edges of seismogenic zones from joint geodetic and tremor analysis
- 11:30am - 12:00pm
- Wrap up, Brad Aagaard
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 5:00pm
- Tinker time (for those still around)
