Symposium on The Applications of Mechanics to Geophysics
June 25-26, 2019 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA
Co-Chairs: Yuri Fialko and Xanthippi Markenscoff
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation &
the Green Foundation
Venue: Engineering Building II, Room 479
Program
| Tuesday, June 25 | ||
| 9:15 | Coffee & Muffins | |
| 9:30 | Dean Albert Pisano, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego | Welcoming address |
| 9:40 | James Rice, Harvard University | Long-dormant faults in the sub-surface and their response to nearby fluid injection |
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Nadia Lapusta, Caltech | Energy budget of earthquakes in dynamic simulations of earthquake sequences: crack-like vs. pulse-like ruptures |
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Matt Weingarten, San Diego State University |
Linking fluid flow and geomechanics to mitigate injection-induced seismicity
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| 11:40 | Coffee break | |
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| 11:55 | Xanthippi Markenscoff, MAE, UC San Diego |
The mechanics of deep earthquakes
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| 12:35 | Lunch | |
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| 2:00 | Alain Molinari, University of Lorraine (France) | Fundamental aspects of a new micromechanical model of rate and state friction |
| 2:40 | Sylvain Barbot, University of Southern California | Modulation of frictional strength by grain-size evolution around contact junctions and implications for fault dynamics |
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| 3:20 | Coffee break | |
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| 3:35 | Hiroki Sone, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Viscous deformation of fault damage zones and implications for interseismic development of fault stress heterogeneity |
| 4:15 | Ahmed Elbanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Modeling Earthquake Ruptures With High Resolution Fault Zone Physics |
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| 6:30
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Dinner | |
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| Wednesday, June 26 | ||
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| 8:15 | Coffee & Muffins | |
| 8:30 | James Dieterich, UC Riverside (emeritus) |
Modeling seismicity induced by fluid injection
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Greg Mclaskey, Cornell University | Earthquake Nucleation, Seismic Wave Radiation, and Termination of Dynamic Rupture in a 3 m Rock Experiment |
| 9:50 | Kyung-Suk Kim, Brown University | Scale Effects in Friction at Broad Scales: Roughness-Scaling Experiment |
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| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
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| 10:45
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Steve WaiChing Sun, Columbia University | A machine-learning meta-modeling game for generating traction-separation law for frictional interfaces across length scale |
| 11:25 | Yuri Fialko, SIO, UC San Diego | Mechanisms of unsteady shallow creep on active faults in Southern California (and elsewhere) |
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| 12:05 | Lunch | |
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| 1:30 | Paul Segall, Stanford University | The Mechanics of Episodic Caldera Collapse as Revealed by the 2018 Kilauea, Hawaii Eruption |
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| 2:10 - 4:00 | Poster Session | |
| 4:00 | Adjourn |