2012 Workshop on Crustal Deformation Modeling
Draft Workshop Agenda
Please send suggested revisions to Brad Aagaard.
Location: Student Center Ballrooms A and B (2nd floor) Mon-Thu, Berthoud 243, Fri
Tutorials
A description of the software tools and general workflow used in crustal deformation modeling is available on the Pylith wiki.
Beginner Tutorials
Beginner tutorials for PyLith and CUBIT will not be offerred at the workshop. Beginner users should work through the extensive set of examples in the PyLith manual and online tutorial. A two hour online help session will be offered on June 7 to resolve any installation issues or answer questions not covered in the manual and online materials. At the workshop we will only briefly review basic information so that most of the tutorials can be devoted to intermediate and advanced topics.
Monday - Intermediate Tutorials
These tutorials will provide an introduction to Relax and discussion of intermediate PyLith/CUBIT topics. Prior to the workshop users should have installed the software and worked through the examples provided in the Relax and PyLith manuals.
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Cafeteria (Student Center)
- 8:00am - 8:15am
- Introduction and overview of tutorials, Brad Aagaard
OVERVIEW OF MODELING AND MESH GENERATION SOFTWARE
- 8:15am - 9:00am
- Introduction to Relax, Sylvain Barbot
- 9:00am - 9:30am
- Overview of PyLith, Charles Williams
- 9:30am - 10:00am
- Overview of CUBIT, Brad Aagaard
- 10:00am - 10:15am
- Break
IN-DEPTH MODELING TUTORIALS
- 10:15am - 12:15pm
- PyLith/CUBIT: 2-D subduction zone with coseismic and interseismic deformation, Brad Aagaard
- 12:15pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- 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.
- 2:30pm - 3:00pm
- Break
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm
- Relax examples, Sylvain Barbot
- 4:30pm - 5:15pm
- PyLith: Introduction to fault friction, Brad Aagaard
- 5:15pm - 6:00pm
- 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.
- Dinner on your own
Tuesday - Advanced Tutorials
These tutorials build upon the tutorials on Mon and are designed for users that have some experience with PyLith and CUBIT and want to brush up on their use or learn about new features.
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Cafeteria (Student Center)
- 8:00am - 8:05am
- Overview of tutorials, Brad Aagaard
ADVANCED MESH GENERATION, MESH QUALITY, AND PETSC SOLVERS
- 8:05am - 9:30am
- CUBIT: 3-D Meshing with Nonplanar Surfaces, Charles Williams
- 9:30am - 10:15am
- PyLith: Solver options, Matt Knepley
- Zip file containing parameters for various solver options.
- 10:15am - 10:30am
- Break
IN-DEPTH MODELING TUTORIALS
- 10:30am - 11:00am
- PyLith: Modeling afterslip with friction, Brad Aagaard
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- PyLith: Introduction to dynamic spontaneous rupture, Brad Aagaard
- Zip file containing files for running SCEC TPV205-2D benchmark
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- 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.
- 2:30pm - 3:00pm
- Break
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm
- Green's Functions: Inverting Geodetic Data for Fault Slip with 2-D Earth Structure, Charles Williams
- 4:30pm - 5:15pm
- CUBIT: Examples of 3-D meshing, Brad Aagaard
- 4:45pm - 6:00pm
- Tinker Time
Dedicated time for running example problems or benchmarks that are distributed with respective codes. This is also an opportunity for informal collaboration.
- Dinner on your own
Science Talks and Discussions
Wednesday
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Cafeteria (Student Center)
- 8:00am - 8:15am
- Introduction and overview of workshop, Brad Aagaard
INTRODUCTION AND POSTER SUMMARIES
- 8:15am - 8:30am
- Participant introductions (~1/2 min per person)
- Why am I here?
- What research problems/areas am I interested in?
- 8:30am - 9:00am
- Poster summaries
Each person with a poster will present an overview of their poster (1 slide and 5 min per person)
- 9:00am - 9:30am
- Break
GEODETIC SLIP RATES IN EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE FORECASTS
- 9:30am - 10:30am
- Peter Bird, NeoKinema: A kinematic finite-element code for estimating both interseismic and long-term-average velocity fields on the surface (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
- 10:30am - 11:30am
- Wayne Thatcher, Scientific issues raised by using GPS data to estimate fault slip rates (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
- 11:30am - 12:00pm
- Airport Shuttle Optimization
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- Tinker Time
- 2:30pm - 3:00pm
- Break
INVERSION OF CRUSTAL DEFORMATION:JAPAN
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Jack Loveless, Interpreting interseismic observations with elastic block models (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Sarah Minson, Bayesian earthquake modeling (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
- 5:00pm - 6:00pm
- Poster Session
- Dinner on your own
Thursday
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Cafeteria (Student Center)
INVERSION OF CRUSTAL DEFORMATION
- 8:00am - 9:00am
- David Schmidt, Constraints on slow slip events from geodetic observations (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
- 9:00am - 10:00am
- Margaret Boettcher, Understanding slip on oceanic transform faults through observations from the lab to the fault scale (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
- 10:00am - 10:15am
- Break
- 10:15am - 10:30am
- Rowena Lohman, SCEC community geodetic source inversion benchmarking
- 10:30am - 11:20am
- Inversion Code Discussion
- Do we want a community inversion code?
- What would be the inputs/outputs?
- What techniques would it use?
- How much user training would be required?
- 11:20am - 11:50pm
- Discussion: CIG Short-Term Crustal Dynamics Software Development Priorities
- 11:30am - 12:00pm
- Tinker Time
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- NEIC Tour
- 2:30pm - 3:00pm
- Break
LITHOSPHERE-MANTLE INTERACTIONS
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Jolante van Wijk, Crust-mantle interactions of the Escalante anomaly, Colorado Plateau (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
- 4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Tinker Time
- Dinner on your own
Friday -New Location:BERTHOUD 243
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Cafeteria (Student Center)
FAULT PHYSICS
- 8:00am - 9:00am
- Jessica Hawthorne, Slow slip events simulated using a friction law with a velocity-weakening to -strengthening transition (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
- 9:00am - 10:00am
- Greg McLaskey, The nucleation of a laboratory earthquake: Implications for foreshocks and minimum earthquake size (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
- 10:00am - 10:30am
- Break
- 10:30am - 11:30am
- Nadaya Cubas, Megathrust friction in the 2010 Maule earthquake area in relation to forearc morphology and mechanical stability, and to earthquake rupture dynamics (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)
WRAP-UP
- 11:30am - 12:00pm
- Wrap-up Discussion, Brad Aagaard
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 5:00pm
- Tinker Time
We anticipate most people will depart Friday afternoon. The meeting room will be available for your use until 5:00pm
- Dinner on your own