2006 SCEC Annual Meeting - Registration Available

To SCEC Community,

Second Announcement of SCEC Annual Meeting-Registration Available

The 2006 SCEC Annual Meeting will be held September 10-13 at the Palm
Springs Hilton Hotel in Palm Springs, California.
The hotel web site is http://www.palmsprings.hilton.com/

This will be an extremely critical meeting as we continue planning the
transition from SCEC2 (ending January 31, 2007) to SCEC3 (beginning
February 1, 2007).

Registration for the meeting is now available at www.scec.org/signin. If
you have any trouble with registration, please contact John Marquis at
the SCEC office (marquis@usc.edu). We have blocked rooms at the Hilton
and I suggest that you register early if you want to stay at the meeting
venue. We have an overflow hotel if we run out of space.

SCEC scientists are strongly encouraged to bring their students to Palm
Springs.

The annual meeting is being organized by the SCEC Planning Committee,
chaired by Ralph Archuleta. A draft agenda is available at the
registration site. In addition to the normal work of planning future
activities, we will again have several science talks during the meeting,
with evenings set aside for poster sessions/viewing. I am pleased to
announce the science talks this year will be presented by Margaret
Boettcher, Jeroen Tromp, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Steve Wesnousky, Brad
Hager, Thorsten Becker, Jessica Murray, Yehuda Ben-Zion, Steve Day, Jim
Rice, and Jean Carlson.

Abstracts for poster presentations are due no later than August 24,
submitted on line at the registration site. You can re-enter the site
after you have registered to add your abstract nearer the deadline.
Posters should be put up on Sunday afternoon/night; the display panels
for posters are 120 cm high by 240 cm wide.

The annual meeting will formally start on Monday morning and conclude
late Wednesday morning. Rooms at the Palm Springs Hilton will be
$102/night plus tax, up to 4 occupants. You must register through the
SCEC web site to get a room at the hotel as we have blocked the entire
hotel. Meals will be served buffet style as has become the tradition at
SCEC meetings.

In addition to the annual meeting activities, there will be several
meetings/workshops held both before and after the SCEC meeting. Details
of these meetings are on the web site.

These meetings include:

1. Saturday/Sunday (September 9-10). Workshop/field trip on pulverized
fault zone rocks being organized by Judi Chester, Tom Rockwell, Jim
Evans, and Yehuda Ben-Zion.

2. Sunday (September 10). California 3D velocity models workshop being
organized by Egill Hauksson, Cliff Thurber, Peter Shearer, and Felix
Waldhauser.

3. Sunday morning (September 10). A visit to new trenches at the Salt
Creek site on the southern SAF being organized by Pat Williams and Gordon
Seitz.

4. Sunday afternoon (September 10). A workshop on the new Southern San
Andreas Project being organized by Ken Hudnut.

5. Wednesday afternoon/Thursday (September 13-14). Extreme Ground
Motion Workshop being organized by Tom Hanks, Norm Abrahamson, and Paul
Somerville.

Hope you are having a wonderful summer and let's hope the weather cools
down by September. It was 121 in Palm Springs on Monday of this week.

Cheers, John