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Sunday 11 May 2008	Back to Top
3:00 PM	Registration
5:30 PM	Welcome and Ice-Breaker Reception
Monday 12 May 2008	Back to Top
	Working Group 2 - Scaling Physics
9:00 AM	Collective Behavior of Earthquakes and Faults: Continuum-Discrete Transitions, Progressive Evolutionary Changes and Different Dynamic Regimes Ben-Zion
9:20 AM	Towards a universal rule on the recurrence interval scaling of repeating earthquake Chen et al.
9:40 AM	A simple model of damage rheology with discrete slip patches in surrounding elastic solid Dahmen and Ben-Zion
10:00 AM	Specificity and universality of catastrophic rupture Ke et al.
10:30 AM	MORNING TEA
11:00 AM	Ergodicity and Forecasting Klein et al.
11:20 AM	Earthquake fault scaling: Relating fault length to width, average displacement, and moment release. Leonard
11:40 AM	Mesh dependence and Slip Complexity in Earthquake Fault Models: A New Perspective Olsen-Kettle and Muhlhaus
12:00 PM	The peak point of LURR and its significance Yin et al.
12:30 PM	LUNCH
	Working Group 4 - Macroscopic Simulation: Dynamic Rupture and Wave Propagation
1:30 PM	Dynamic Rupture Models for the Southern San Andreas Fault Ely et al.
1:50 PM	A Support-Operator Method for Dynamic Earthquake Rupture Simulation Ely et al.
2:10 PM	Modeling of the 2003 Tokachi-oki, Japan, Earthquake: Stress Accumulation, Dynamic Rupture and Ground Motions Fukuyama et al.
2:30 PM	High-Performance Computing for Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Analysis Jordan and the CME Collaboration
3:00 PM	AFTERNOON TEA
3:30 PM	Dynamic Source Modeling of the 2005 Miyagi-oki Earthquake Kimura et al.
3:50 PM	Frequency-dependence of the apparent S-wave radiation pattern; FDM simulations of scattering high-frequency seismic wavefield Takemura et al.
	Working Group 8 - Other Geoscience Simulation
4:10 PM	Magma Flow Instabilities: Implications for Long-Period Seismicity Hale
4:30 PM	Cracking the brittle-ductile transition zone: the role of fluids Regenauer-Lieb et al.
Tuesday 13 May 2008	Back to Top
	Working Group 8 - Other Geoscience Simulation: Tsunami
9:00 AM	An integrated simulation of seismic wave and tsunami propagation Furumura and Saito
9:20 AM	Three-Dimensional Tsunami Generation due to the Sea-Bottom Deformation Saito and Furumura
9:40 AM	Tsunami Simulation - Soup to Nuts Ward
10:00 AM	Tsunami Hazards Along the Chinese Coast from Earthquakes in Neighboring Subducting Zones Yuen et al.
10:30 AM	MORNING TEA
	Working Group 6 - Data Assimilation and Understanding
11:00 AM	Preparing for NASA's DESDynI Mission with QuakeSim Donnellan
11:20 AM	Statistical analysis of earthquake event correlations in Virtual California Glasscoe et al.
11:40 AM	Regional Hidden Markov Model Based Time Series Analysis Via A Web Portal Interface Granat et al.
12:00 PM	Modeling and Monitoring the Entire Processes of Earthquake Generation in and around Japan Matsu'ura et al.
12:30 PM	LUNCH
1:30 PM	A Guide to the QuakeSim Portal and Its Portlets Nazerian
1:50 PM	Crustal Deformation Associated with the Earthquake Cycle along the Eastern Nankai Trough, Central Japan Sagiya et al.
2:10 PM	Correlation of Radon anomalies in ground water and Soil-gas with seismic events in NW Himalayas, India Singh et al.
2:30 PM	3D Tectonic Stress Fields in and around Japan, inferred from the CMT Data Inversion Terakawa and Matsu'ura
3:00 PM	AFTERNOON TEA
3:30 PM	Eigenvector decomposition of historic seismicity data Tiampo et al.
3:50 PM	A Study on Determination of Stress Level by Seismic Stress Drops and the Stress Axis Deflections Before and After Large Earthquakes Wan and Shen
4:10 PM	Are Spontaneous Earthquakes in California Stationary ? Wang and Jackson
4:30 PM	Spatial and Temporal Variation of Tectonic Stress Pattern at the Westernmost Plate Boundary in Taiwan Wu et al.
Wednesday 14 May 2008	Back to Top
	International Science Board
9:00 AM	ACES Executive Director's Report Rundle
9:30 AM	ISB Member Report: Australia Weatherley
9:55 AM	ISB Member Report: Canada Tiampo
10:20 AM	ISB Member Report: China Yin
10:45 AM	MORNING TEA
11:15 AM	ISB Member Report: Chinese Taipei Chen
11:40 AM	ISB Member Report: Japan Matsu'ura
12:05 PM	ISB Member Report: USA Donnellan
12:30 PM	LUNCH
	Working Group 3 - Macroscopic Simulation: Earthquake Generation and Cycles
1:30 PM	Large- Scale Simulations of Fault System Seismicity Dieterich et al.
1:50 PM	Joint Simulation of Quasi-static Stress Accumulation and Earthquake Dynamic Rupture Hashimoto et al.
2:10 PM	Multi-cycle Dynamics of Interacting Faults Olsen-Kettle et al.
2:30 PM	Virtual California 2008: Topology and Dynamics Rundle et al.
3:00 PM	AFTERNOON TEA
3:30 PM	Dynamical, Material, and Geometrical Heterogeneities in Earthquake Models Shaw
3:50 PM	Multiscale Simulation of Earthquakes at Parkfield, California, Using Rate and State Friction and Fast Multipoles Tullis and Beeler
4:10 PM	ALLCAL: An Earthquake Simulator for all of California Ward
Thursday 15 May 2008	Back to Top
	Working Group 5 - Computational Environment and Algorithms
9:00 AM	Web 2.0 and Earthquake Science Fox and Pierce
9:20 AM	QuakeTables: A Federated Database for Assimilation of Earthquake Data in the QuakeSim Modeling Environment Grant et al.
9:40 AM	Interactive virtual reality methods for generating and visualizing earthquake simulations Kellogg et al.
10:00 AM	A StGermain case study: adding Recovery by Equilibrium of Patches to Underworld Quenette and Giordani
10:30 AM	MORNING TEA
11:00 AM	An Open-Source Program for Visualizing Simulated Earthquake Time History Nardone et al.
11:20 AM	NASA QuakeSim finite element modeling with GeoFEST Parker et al.
11:40 AM	Services and Components for the QuakeSim Project Pierce et al.
12:00 PM	Warehousing Earthquake, InSAR and Hazard Data Yoder et al.
12:30 PM	LUNCH
	Working Group 7 - Model Applications
1:50 PM	Performance Analysis of RIPI Forecasts of California Earthquakes: Rundle et al.
2:10 PM	An Update on the Status of Computing Earthquake Forecast Probabilities by Numerical Simulations using Virtual California Van Aalsburg et al.
2:30 PM	Seismological Evidence for the Convergence of Crustal Stress Orientations Before Large Earthquakes Wan and Shen
3:00 PM	AFTERNOON TEA
3:30 PM	The effects of pore pressure on Load-Unload Response Ratio before earthquakes: viewpoint from discrete element method Wang and Mora
3:50 PM	A Combined Computational Approach towards Earthquake Forecasting Xing and Yin
4:10 PM	A probabilistic approach for earthquake potential evaluation based on the Load/Unload Response ratio method Yu et al.
4:30 PM	Application of PI method to the North and Southwest China Zhang et al.
6:00 PM	CONFERENCE DINNER
Friday 16 May 2008	Back to Top
	Working Group 1 - Microscopic Simulation
9:00 AM	Scaling of Fracture Energy: Laboratory Measurements by High-velocity Rotary Shear Apparatus Mizoguchi and Fukuyama
9:20 AM	The evolution of fault strength and gouge properties with shear strain: Insights from particle dynamics simulations Morgan and Guo
9:40 AM	Nucleation and Growth of Microscopic Defects and Disorder in Rock Masses Rundle et al.
10:00 AM	Reproduction of 3-D wing-crack using 3-D discrete element method, Esys\_Particle Wang and Mora
10:30 AM	MORNING TEA
11:00 AM	Workshop Summary and Future Planning
1:00 PM	Close of Workshop