HARVARD UNIVERSITY

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

and

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

SOLID EARTH PHYSICS SEMINARS

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Coming Seminars

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A Two-Step Approach for Combining GPS

and Seismic Data in Kinematic Inversions

Susana Custodio

Institute for Crustal Studies

University of California, Santa Barbara

Friday 23 May 2008, 11:30 am

4th Floor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.

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Finite Volume Methods for Elastodynamic

Problems, with Application to the Study

of Remarkably Strong Tremor Episodes

Heralding the Onset of the Current Eruption

at Mount St. Helens, Washington

abstract

Roger P. Denlinger

USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory

Vancouver, WA

Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Previous Seminars (since fall semester 2002)

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Branches and offsets: Issues in 3D earthquake

models with complex fault geometry

David Oglesby

Department of Earth Sciences

University of California at Riverside

Friday, 1 November 2002, 2:00 pm

Room 129 Hoffman Laboratory, 24 Oxford Street

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The earthquake deformation cycle in the

corner of South America subduction zone

Mohamed Chlieh

Laboratoire Tectonique

Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris

Thursday 12 December 2002, 4:00 pm

Room 319 Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street

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Combining tectonic stress and strain data

to investigate plate boundary mechanics

in California and Japan

John Townend

Department of Geophysics

Stanford University

Thursday 19 December 2002, 2:00 pm

Room 129 Hoffman Laboratory, 24 Oxford Street

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Insights on fault behavior from the

seismic nucleation phase: scale-dependent

or nonlinear friction?

Jean-Paul Ampuero

Department of Geosciences

Princeton University

Monday, 13 January 2003, 2:00 pm

Room 129 Hoffman Laboratory, 24 Oxford Street

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Fault propagation and strain

partitioning in continental lithosphere

David Bowman

Department of Geological Sciences

California State University at Fullerton

Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 1:00 pm

Room 320 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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The role of off-fault damage in

the evolution of normal faults

Charles Sammis

Department of Earth Sciences

University of Southern California

Tuesday, 8 April 2003, 1:00 pm

Room 320 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Structural constraints on

the location of aftershocks

Suleyman S. Nalbant

Geophysics Research Group

University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Monday, 11 August 2003, 2:00 pm

Room 318 Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street

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The relation of seismic Q to subduction

zone structure and processes

Brian Mitchell

Saint Louis University

Monday, 15 September 2003, 4:00 pm

Room 318 Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street

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The evolution of the seismic-aseismic

transition during the earthquake cycle:

Constraints from the time-dependent

depth distributions of aftershocks

Frederique Rolandone

Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

University of California at Berkeley

Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 3:00 pm

Room 129 Hoffman Laboratory, 24 Oxford Street

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Stress orientations and time-evolution of

fault zone properties: Insights from

3D (fault) physics-based numerical models

Delphine Fitzenz

USGS Earthquake Hazards Team

Menlo Park, CA

Thursday, March 25, 2004

1:00 PM

Room 319, Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street

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Plate boundary deformation on time scales

ranging from 10 to 10 million years

Anke Friedrich

Institute of Geosciences

University of Potsdam, Germany

Thursday, April 1, 2004

3:00 PM

Room 319, Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street

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A high-frequency view of

asperity ruptures during the

Chi-Chi Taiwan earthquake

Charles Sammis

Youlin Chen

Department of Earth Sciences

University of South Carolina

Tuesday, April 6, 2004

3:00 PM

Room 318, Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street

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Estimation of maximum regional

earthquake magnitude mmax

Andrzej Kijko

Council for Geoscience

Geological Survey of South Africa

Pretoria

Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 2:00 pm

Room 318 Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street

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Localized compaction

in porous sandstone

John W. Rudnicki

Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering

and Mechanical Engineering

Northwestern University

Thursday, 2 September 2004, 3:00 pm

Room 318 Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street

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Animating and forecasting Southern California

seismicity (the patient only looks dead)

Ross Stein

USGS Earthquake Hazards Team

Menlo Park, CA

Friday, 22 October 2004, 12:00 pm

Room 129 Hoffman Laboratory, 24 Oxford Street

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Southern symphony: Seismoacoustic

records from icebergs, 2000 - 2004

Emile Okal

Department of Geological Sciences

Northwestern University

Friday, 22 October 2004, 4:00 pm

Room 320 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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The dynamics and near-source ground

motion of supershear earthquakes

Eric Dunham

Departments of Physics and Geological Sciences

University of California at Santa Barbara

Thursday, 4 November 2004, 3:00 pm

Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman Lab, 20 Oxford Street

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Source properties of small earthquakes:

implications for earthquake scaling

and fault-zone structure

Jeffrey McGuire

Department of Geology and Geophysics

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Thursday, 13 January 2005, 3:00 pm

Room 307 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Compacting porous rocks

by means of dilatancy

Yves Guéguen

Adjoint Director for Sciences, and

Department of Terre Atmosphère Ocean

École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Tuesday, 25 October 2005, 3:00 pm

209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Earthquake triggering, stress changes:

Estimating stress heterogeneity from

aftershock rate using the rate-and-state model

Agnes Helmstetter

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Columbia University

Thursday, 27 October 2005, 3:00 pm

Room 318, Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street

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Effects of soft soil stratum and

foundation elements on seismic waves

Fook Hou Lee

Department of Civil Engineering

National University of Singapore

Wednesday 1 March 2006, 2:30 PM

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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(Also announced as an Applied Mechanics Colloquium)

Soil liquefaction - physical

and numerical modeling

Hoe I. Ling

Department of Civil Engineering and

Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University

Wednesday 8 March 2006, 4:00 PM,

209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Aseismic creep associated with seismic

swarms in the Salton Trough, CA

Rowena Lohman

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Wednesday 22 March 2006, 2:30 PM

100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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(Also announced as an Applied Mechanics Colloquium)

How and why submarine channelized

flows and landscape development are

different from the terrestrial system

David Mohrig

Department of Earth, Atmospheric

and Planetary Sciences, MIT

Wednesday 19 April 2006, 4:00 PM

209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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(Also announced as an Environmental

Sciences and Engineering Seminar)

The hydrology and biogeochemistry

of the arsenic crisis in Bangladesh

Charles Harvey

Department of Civil and

Environmental Engineering, MIT

Friday 28 April 2006, 12:00 noon

100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Paleoseismology and earthquake surface ruptures:

Could we learn anything about earthquake processes?

Yann Klinger

Laboratoire Tectonique

Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris

Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 3:00 pm

EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor of Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.

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Spontaneous shear localization

in a model brittle solid

Craig Maloney

Department of Physics

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 1:00 pm

EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor of Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.

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Recurrence nature of short-term slow

slip and correlated tremor episodes in

the southwest Japan subduction zone

Hitoshi Hirose

National Research Institute for Earth Science

and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan

(and Pacific Geoscience Centre,

Geological Survey of Canada)

Thursday, 16 November 2006, 3:00 pm

209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Seismology, ice sheets, soil moisture,

and transients: New results from GPS

Kristine M. Larson

Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences

University of Colorado, Boulder

Tuesday, 28 November 2006, 11:00 am

EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor of Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.

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Rupture dynamics and branch

nucleation at kinks in wavy faults

Ryosuke Ando

Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs., Columbia Univ.,

Univ. of Tokyo, and Japan Soc. for Promotion of Science

Friday, 5 January 2007, 11:00 am

Room 209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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A structural geologist's view of

earthquake ruptures: geometry, thickness

and kinematics of exhumed fault zones

Zoe Shipton

Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences,

University of Glasgow, Scotland

Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Numerical modeling of physical processes

occurring during the spontaneous

propagation of 3-D earthquake ruptures

abstract

Andrea Bizzarri

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia,

Sezione di Bologna, Italy

Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Strike-slip fault segmentation from

field observation: Could we find some

systematics and is it useful?

Yann Klinger

Laboratoire Tectonique, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris,

and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard

Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Tsunamis: What have we learned?

abstract

Emile A. Okal

Department of Geological Sciences,

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Friday, 16 November 2007, 3:00 pm

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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A high-frequency secondary event

during the 2004 Parkfield earthquake

Peter Shearer

Scripps Institute of Oceanography,

University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Deformation and flow in disordered materials

abstract

Lisa Manning

Department of Physics

University of California at Santa Barbara

Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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The Non-Critical Precursory

Accelerating Seismicity Theory

Arnaud Mignan

Science and Technology Research

Risk Management Solutions, London, UK

Friday, 25 January 2008, 3:00 pm

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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A New Continuum Model for

Dense Granular Deformations

abstract

Kenneth N. Kamrin

Applied Mathematics Program

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 11:30 am

Room 209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

[note change from usual room]

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Surface Cracks as a Long-term Record of

Seismic Segmentation along the Andean Margin

abstract

Jack Loveless

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Harvard University

Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Makran (Iran/Pakistan) Subduction Zone, its

Seismogenic Behavior and Tsunami Potential

Zoya Zarifi

Department of Earth Science

University of Bergen, Norway

Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Slip and Depth Dependent Variations in

Fault Strength and Gouge Properties:

Insights from Particle Dynamics Simulations

abstract

Julia Morgan

Department of Earth Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX,

and visiting, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard

Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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A Micro-Scale Model of Pressure Solution

Creep: Stress Transfer Within and

Between Neighboring Grain Contacts

Yves Bernabe

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT;

on leave, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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The Presence of a Stagnant Forearc Mantle

Wedge and its Role in Subduction-zone

Petrologic, Volcanic, and Seismic Processes

Kelin Wang

Geologic Survey of Canada

Sidney, British Columbia

Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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The Great Sumatran Earthquakes: 2004-2007

-- Results from New Marine Studies

Satish Singh

Marine Geophysics

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Self-healing Shear Rupture Pulse Driven

by Thermal Pressurization of Pore Fluid

Dmitry Garagash

Department of Civil and Resource Engineering

Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 11:30 am

Room 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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