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2011 SCEC Annual Meeting: Agenda
Sunday, September 11th
07:00-18:30
Registration Check-In
07:00-08:00
Breakfast
08:00-12:00
Workshop: Source Inversion Validation (SIV)
08:00-12:00
Workshop: El Mayor-Cucapah Science and Earthquake Response
12:00-13:00
Lunch
12:00-15:00
SCEC Board Meeting (working lunch)
13:00-17:00
Workshop: Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation (SoSAFE)
13:00-17:00
Workshop: Automating the Transient Detection Process
13:00-17:00
SCEC CME Leadership Meeting
13:00-17:00
Poster Set-Up (Group A)
17:00-18:00
Special Invited Talk:
The Great 2011 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake (Mw9.0): An Unexpected Event (J. Mori, DPRI)
18:00-20:00
SCEC Annual Meeting Ice-Breaker/Welcome Reception
18:30-20:30
SCEC Advisory Council Meeting (working dinner)
20:00-22:30
Poster Session I (Group A)
Monday, September 12th
07:00-08:00
Registration Check-In
07:00-08:00
Breakfast
08:00-10:30
Plenary Session I: State of the SCEC
08:00
Welcome and State of the Center (T. Jordan, SCEC/USC, 10.1 MB PowerPoint)
08:30
Report from NSF (J. Whitcomb, NSF, 11.2 MB PowerPoint)
08:45
Report from USGS (M. Blanpied/E. Lemersal, USGS)
09:00
Communication, Education, and Outreach Highlights (M. Benthien, SCEC/USC, 26.1 MB PowerPoint)
09:30
SCEC3 Science Accomplishments (G. Beroza, Stanford, 27.1 MB PowerPoint)
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-13:00

11:00

11:20

11:40
12:00

12:20

12:40

Plenary Session II: "Science and Engineering Issues from Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards Along the California Coast" (Moderator: J. Baker, Stanford)
Offshore Faulting and Associated Hazards Along the Southern California Coast
(J. Shaw, Harvard, 71.4 MB PowerPoint)
Seismic Hazards along the California Coast: Issues for California's Nuclear Power Plants
(N. Abrahamson, PG&E, 9.4 MB PowerPoint)
Group Discussion
Tsunami Interaction with Nearshore Infrastructure
(P. Lynett, USC, 12.0 MB PowerPoint)
Seismic Risk Challenges at Nuclear Power Plants
(G. Hardy, SGH, 6.6 MB PowerPoint)
Group Discussion
13:00-14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:00
Poster Session II (Group A)
16:00-18:00

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16:30


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17:30

Plenary Session III: "Are We Properly Characterizing Extreme/Rare Events?"
(Moderator: J. Hardebeck, USGS)
22 February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake
(B. Bradley, Cantebury, 17.7 MB PowerPoint)
Structural Linkage of Onshore and Offshore Thrust Systems Across the Ventura Fault and Prospects for Large Earthquakes in the Transverse Ranges
(J. Hubbard, Harvard, 29.8 MB PowerPoint)
Large Co-Seismic Uplift of Coastal Terraces Across the Ventura Avenue Anticline: Implications for the Size of Earthquakes and the Potential for Tsunami Generation
(T. Rockwell, SDSU, 95.3 MB PowerPoint)
Group Discussion
18:00-19:00
Poster Removal (Group A) and Set-Up (Group B)
19:00-21:00
SCEC Honors Banquet
21:00-22:30
Poster Session III (Group B)
Tuesday, September 13th
07:00-08:00
Breakfast
08:00-09:00

08:00

08:30

Plenary Session IVa: "Operational Earthquake Forecasting - State of Knowledge and Issues for Implementation"
Operational Earthquake Forecasting and Decision-Making in a Low-Probability Environment: Lessons from L’Aquila and Application in California (T. Jordan, SCEC/USC, 7.7 MB PowerPoint)
Group Discussion
09:00-10:00
Plenary Session IVb: Ground Motion Simulation Validation
(Moderators: N. Luco, USGS; K. Olsen, SDSU, 4.6 MB PowerPoint)
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-12:30

10:30

11:00

11:30


12:00

Plenary Session V: "How Do We Develop the Community Stress Model?"
(Moderator: T. Becker, USC)
Fault Stress Heterogeneity and Implications for Rupture Dynamics
(J.-P. Ampuero, Caltech, 5.8 MB PowerPoint)
Earthquake Focal Mechanisms Imply Homogeneous Stress at Seismogenic Depths
(J. Hardebeck, USGS, 8.2 MB PowerPoint )
Strain-Based Interpretation of Southern California Focal Mechanism Data and Implications for a Community Stress Model
(I. Bailey, USC, 5.3 MB PowerPoint)
Group Discussion
12:30-14:00
Lunch
12:30-14:00
SCEC Advisory Council Executive Session (working lunch)
14:00-15:30
Poster Session IV (Group B)
15:30-17:00

15:30

16:00
16:15

16:45

Plenary Session VIa: "New Directions in Earthquake Forecasting"
(Moderator: I. Zaliapin, UNR)
UCERF3 – Progress on an Operational Earthquake Forecast for California
(E. Field, USGS)
Group Discussion
The Future of Earthquake Forecasting: The Role of Earthquake Simulators
(J. Dieterich, UCR, 14.2 MB PowerPoint)
Group Discussion
17:00-18:30


17:00

17:20

17:40

18:00

Plenary Session VIb: "SDOT Interdisciplinary Group - What Is Needed To Make Progress On Understanding Stress Transfer From Plate Motion To Crustal Faults?"
(Moderator: K. Johnson, Indiana)
An Integrated View of the Mw 6 Earthquake Sequence at Parkfield
(S. Barbot, Caltech, 12.4 MB PowerPoint)
Dramatic Lithospheric Thinning Beneath Rifted Regions of Southern California
(V. Lekic, Brown, 11.7 MB PowerPoint)
Long-Term Fault Strength Evolution: The Examples of Subduction Zones and Ductile Shear Zone (L. Lavier, UT Austin, 6.1 MB PowerPoint)
Group Discussion
19:00-21:00
Dinner
20:00-22:00
SCEC Advisory Council Executive Session
21:00-22:30
Poster Session V (Group B)
Wednesday, September 14th
07:00-08:30
Remove Posters (Group B)
07:00-08:30
SCEC Board Meeting (working breakfast)
07:00-08:30
SCEC PC Meeting (working breakfast)
07:00-08:30
Breakfast
08:30-10:00

08:30


09:00

09:30

Plenary Session VII: How Can Increasingly Complex Community Models Continue To Evolve? (Moderator: B. Aagaard, USGS)
The Salton Seismic Imaging Project (SSIP): Active Rifting and Strike-Slip Faulting in the Salton Trough, California
(J. Hole, Virginia Tech, 11.3 MB PowerPoint)
Mechanical Investigations of 3D Fault Complexity in Southern California
(M. Cooke, UMass, 23 MB PowerPoint)
Group Discussion
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:00
2012 Science Collaboration and RFP (G. Beroza, Stanford, 608 KB PowerPoint)
11:00-11:30
Report from the SCEC Advisory Council (J. Freymueller, Alaska, 392 KB PowerPoint)
11:30-12:00
Concluding Remarks (T. Jordan, SCEC/USC)
12:00
Adjourn
13:00-17:00
Workshop: Strategies for Implementing a Community Stress Model




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