6th ACES Workshop
6th ACES International Workshop
Palm Cove Resort, Cairns, Australia
11 - 16 May 2008
Hosted by:
Earth Systems Science Computational Centre,
University of Queensland
Workshop Programme
Sunday 11 May 2008 | |
3:00 PM | Registration |
5:30 PM | Welcome and Ice-Breaker Reception |
Monday 12 May 2008 | |
Working Group 2 - Scaling Physics | |
9:00 AM | Collective Behavior of Earthquakes and Faults: Continuum-Discrete Transitions, Progressive Evolutionary Changes and Different Dynamic Regimes |
9:20 AM | Towards a universal rule on the recurrence interval scaling of repeating earthquake |
9:40 AM | A simple model of damage rheology with discrete slip patches in surrounding elastic solid |
10:00 AM | Specificity and universality of catastrophic rupture |
10:30 AM | MORNING TEA |
11:00 AM | Ergodicity and Forecasting |
11:20 AM | Earthquake fault scaling: Relating fault length to width, average displacement, and moment release. |
11:40 AM | Mesh dependence and Slip Complexity in Earthquake Fault Models: A New Perspective |
12:00 PM | The peak point of LURR and its significance |
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 |
1:50 PM | A Support-Operator Method for Dynamic Earthquake Rupture Simulation |
2:10 PM | Modeling of the 2003 Tokachi-oki, Japan, Earthquake: Stress Accumulation, Dynamic Rupture and Ground Motions |
2:30 PM | High-Performance Computing for Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Analysis |
3:00 PM | AFTERNOON TEA |
3:30 PM | Dynamic Source Modeling of the 2005 Miyagi-oki Earthquake |
3:50 PM | Frequency-dependence of the apparent S-wave radiation pattern; FDM simulations of scattering high-frequency seismic wavefield |
Working Group 8 - Other Geoscience Simulation | |
4:10 PM | Magma Flow Instabilities: Implications for Long-Period Seismicity |
4:30 PM | Cracking the brittle-ductile transition zone: the role of fluids |
Tuesday 13 May 2008 | |
Working Group 8 - Other Geoscience Simulation: Tsunami | |
9:00 AM | An integrated simulation of seismic wave and tsunami propagation |
9:20 AM | Three-Dimensional Tsunami Generation due to the Sea-Bottom Deformation |
9:40 AM | Tsunami Simulation - Soup to Nuts |
10:00 AM | Tsunami Hazards Along the Chinese Coast from Earthquakes in Neighboring Subducting Zones |
10:30 AM | MORNING TEA |
Working Group 6 - Data Assimilation and Understanding | |
11:00 AM | Preparing for NASA's DESDynI Mission with QuakeSim |
11:20 AM | Statistical analysis of earthquake event correlations in Virtual California |
11:40 AM | Regional Hidden Markov Model Based Time Series Analysis Via A Web Portal Interface |
12:00 PM | Modeling and Monitoring the Entire Processes of Earthquake Generation in and around Japan |
12:30 PM | LUNCH |
1:30 PM | A Guide to the QuakeSim Portal and Its Portlets |
1:50 PM | Crustal Deformation Associated with the Earthquake Cycle along the Eastern Nankai Trough, Central Japan |
2:10 PM | Correlation of Radon anomalies in ground water and Soil-gas with seismic events in NW Himalayas, India |
2:30 PM | 3D Tectonic Stress Fields in and around Japan, inferred from the CMT Data Inversion |
3:00 PM | AFTERNOON TEA |
3:30 PM | Eigenvector decomposition of historic seismicity data |
3:50 PM | A Study on Determination of Stress Level by Seismic Stress Drops and the Stress Axis Deflections Before and After Large Earthquakes |
4:10 PM | Are Spontaneous Earthquakes in California Stationary ? |
4:30 PM | Spatial and Temporal Variation of Tectonic Stress Pattern at the Westernmost Plate Boundary in Taiwan |
Wednesday 14 May 2008 | |
International Science Board | |
9:00 AM | ACES Executive Director's Report |
9:30 AM | ISB Member Report: Australia |
9:55 AM | ISB Member Report: Canada |
10:20 AM | ISB Member Report: China |
10:45 AM | MORNING TEA |
11:15 AM | ISB Member Report: Chinese Taipei |
11:40 AM | ISB Member Report: Japan |
12:05 PM | ISB Member Report: USA |
12:30 PM | LUNCH |
Working Group 3 - Macroscopic Simulation: Earthquake Generation and Cycles | |
1:30 PM | Large- Scale Simulations of Fault System Seismicity |
1:50 PM | Joint Simulation of Quasi-static Stress Accumulation and Earthquake Dynamic Rupture |
2:10 PM | Multi-cycle Dynamics of Interacting Faults |
2:30 PM | Virtual California 2008: Topology and Dynamics |
3:00 PM | AFTERNOON TEA |
3:30 PM | Dynamical, Material, and Geometrical Heterogeneities in Earthquake Models |
3:50 PM | Multiscale Simulation of Earthquakes at Parkfield, California, Using Rate and State Friction and Fast Multipoles |
4:10 PM | ALLCAL: An Earthquake Simulator for all of California |
Thursday 15 May 2008 | |
Working Group 5 - Computational Environment and Algorithms | |
9:00 AM | Web 2.0 and Earthquake Science |
9:20 AM | QuakeTables: A Federated Database for Assimilation of Earthquake Data in the QuakeSim Modeling Environment |
9:40 AM | Interactive virtual reality methods for generating and visualizing earthquake simulations |
10:00 AM | A StGermain case study: adding Recovery by Equilibrium of Patches to Underworld |
10:30 AM | MORNING TEA |
11:00 AM | An Open-Source Program for Visualizing Simulated Earthquake Time History |
11:20 AM | NASA QuakeSim finite element modeling with GeoFEST |
11:40 AM | Services and Components for the QuakeSim Project |
12:00 PM | Warehousing Earthquake, InSAR and Hazard Data |
12:30 PM | LUNCH |
Working Group 7 - Model Applications | |
1:50 PM | Performance Analysis of RIPI Forecasts of California Earthquakes: |
2:10 PM | An Update on the Status of Computing Earthquake Forecast Probabilities by Numerical Simulations using Virtual California |
2:30 PM | Seismological Evidence for the Convergence of Crustal Stress Orientations Before Large Earthquakes |
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 |
3:50 PM | A Combined Computational Approach towards Earthquake Forecasting |
4:10 PM | A probabilistic approach for earthquake potential evaluation based on the Load/Unload Response ratio method |
4:30 PM | Application of PI method to the North and Southwest China |
6:00 PM | CONFERENCE DINNER |
Friday 16 May 2008 | |
Working Group 1 - Microscopic Simulation | |
9:00 AM | Scaling of Fracture Energy: Laboratory Measurements by High-velocity Rotary Shear Apparatus |
9:20 AM | The evolution of fault strength and gouge properties with shear strain: Insights from particle dynamics simulations |
9:40 AM | Nucleation and Growth of Microscopic Defects and Disorder in Rock Masses |
10:00 AM | Reproduction of 3-D wing-crack using 3-D discrete element method, Esys\_Particle |
10:30 AM | MORNING TEA |
11:00 AM | Workshop Summary and Future Planning |
1:00 PM | Close of Workshop |
Submitted Abstracts
Microscopic Simulation (top) | |
Mizoguchi and Fukuyama | Scaling of Fracture Energy: Laboratory Measurements by High-velocity Rotary Shear Apparatus |
Morgan and Guo | The evolution of fault strength and gouge properties with shear strain: Insights from particle dynamics simulations |
Rundle et al. | Nucleation and Growth of Microscopic Defects and Disorder in Rock Masses |
Tordesillas et al. | On the connection between particle aspect ratio and rolling resistance (Poster) |
Wang and Mora | Reproduction of 3-D wing-crack using 3-D discrete element method, Esys_Particle |
Scaling Physics (top) | |
Ben-Zion | Collective Behavior of Earthquakes and Faults: Continuum-Discrete Transitions, Progressive Evolutionary Changes and Different Dynamic Regimes |
Chen et al. | Towards a universal rule on the recurrence interval scaling of repeating earthquake |
Dahmen and Ben-Zion | A simple model of damage rheology with discrete slip patches in surrounding elastic solid |
Ke et al. | Specificity and universality of catastrophic rupture |
Klein et al. | Ergodicity and Forecasting |
Leonard | Earthquake fault scaling: Relating fault length to width, average displacement, and moment release. |
Olsen-Kettle and Muhlhaus | Mesh dependence and Slip Complexity in Earthquake Fault Models: A New Perspective |
Yin et al. | The peak point of LURR and its significance |
Macro-scale simulation: Earthquake generation and cycles (top) | |
Bailey and Ben-Zion | Simulations of Stress Drops for Evolving Seismicity on a Heterogeneous Fault in Elastic Half-space (Poster) |
Dieterich et al. | Large- Scale Simulations of Fault System Seismicity |
Hashimoto et al. | Joint Simulation of Quasi-static Stress Accumulation and Earthquake Dynamic Rupture |
Jiang and Wu | PI Applied to Sichuan-Yunnan Region: Retrospective Test and Provisional Forward Forecast Experiment (Poster) |
Ma | Dynamics Research on Strong Shock Gestation in Sichuan-Yunnan and Its Adjacent Regions (Poster) |
Olsen-Kettle et al. | Multi-cycle Dynamics of Interacting Faults |
Rundle et al. | Virtual California 2008: Topology and Dynamics |
Shaw | Dynamical, Material, and Geometrical Heterogeneities in Earthquake Models |
Tullis and Beeler | Multiscale Simulation of Earthquakes at Parkfield, California, Using Rate and State Friction and Fast Multipoles |
Ward | ALLCAL: An Earthquake Simulator for all of California |
Zhou et al. | The velocity structure of the hypocenter area of Dayao earthquake (Poster) |
Macro-scale simulation: Dynamic rupture and wave propagation (top) | |
Ely et al. | Dynamic Rupture Models for the Southern San Andreas Fault |
Ely et al. | A Support-Operator Method for Dynamic Earthquake Rupture Simulation |
Fukuyama et al. | Modeling of the 2003 Tokachi-oki, Japan, Earthquake: Stress Accumulation, Dynamic Rupture and Ground Motions |
Jordan and the CME Collaboration | High-Performance Computing for Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Analysis |
Kimura et al. | Dynamic Source Modeling of the 2005 Miyagi-oki Earthquake |
Takemura et al. | Frequency-dependence of the apparent S-wave radiation pattern; FDM simulations of scattering high-frequency seismic wavefield |
Computational environment and algorithms (top) | |
Fox and Pierce | Web 2.0 and Earthquake Science |
Grant et al. | QuakeTables: A Federated Database for Assimilation of Earthquake Data in the QuakeSim Modeling Environment |
Kellogg et al. | Interactive virtual reality methods for generating and visualizing earthquake simulations |
Nardone et al. | An Open-Source Program for Visualizing Simulated Earthquake Time History |
Parker et al. | NASA QuakeSim finite element modeling with GeoFEST |
Pierce et al. | Services and Components for the QuakeSim Project |
Quenette and Giordani | A StGermain case study: adding Recovery by Equilibrium of Patches to Underworld |
Yenan et al. | Toolkits for automatic web service and graphical user interface generation in the geosciences (Poster) |
Yoder et al. | Warehousing Earthquake, InSAR and Hazard Data |
Yuen et al. | Ubiquitous Interactive Visualization of 3-D Mantle Convection Using a Web Portal with a Java and Ajax Framework (Poster) |
Data assimilation and understanding (top) | |
Clark and Leonard | Temporal clustering of surface ruptures on stable continental region faults: a conceptual model with examples from eastern and western Australia (Poster) |
Donnellan | Preparing for NASA's DESDynI Mission with QuakeSim |
Glasscoe et al. | Statistical analysis of earthquake event correlations in Virtual California |
Granat et al. | Regional Hidden Markov Model Based Time Series Analysis Via A Web Portal Interface |
Matsu'ura et al. | Modeling and Monitoring the Entire Processes of Earthquake Generation in and around Japan |
Nazerian | A Guide to the QuakeSim Portal and Its Portlets |
Sagiya et al. | Crustal Deformation Associated with the Earthquake Cycle along the Eastern Nankai Trough, Central Japan |
Shao | The numerical simulation and discussion on mechanism of postseismic deformation after Kunlun 8.1 earthquake (Poster) |
Singh et al. | Correlation of Radon anomalies in ground water and Soil-gas with seismic events in NW Himalayas, India |
Terakawa and Matsu'ura | 3D Tectonic Stress Fields in and around Japan, inferred from the CMT Data Inversion |
Tiampo et al. | Eigenvector decomposition of historic seismicity data |
Wan and Shen | A Study on Determination of Stress Level by Seismic Stress Drops and the Stress Axis Deflections Before and After Large Earthquakes |
Wang and Jackson | Are Spontaneous Earthquakes in California Stationary ? |
Wu et al. | Spatial and Temporal Variation of Tectonic Stress Pattern at the Westernmost Plate Boundary in Taiwan |
Yang and Ben-Zion | Comparisons between observed properties of aftershock sequences in southern California and predictions of a damage rheology model (Poster) |
Model applications (top) | |
Kumar et al. | Geochemical Earthquake Precursory Studies in NW Himalayas, India (Poster) |
Rundle et al. | Performance Analysis of RIPI Forecasts of California Earthquakes: |
Tiampo et al. | Gravity as a proxy for strain accumulation in complex fault systems (Poster) |
Toya et al. | Pattern Informatics Approach to Earthquake Forecasting in 3D (Poster) |
Van Aalsburg et al. | An Update on the Status of Computing Earthquake Forecast Probabilities by Numerical Simulations using Virtual California |
Wan and Shen | Seismological Evidence for the Convergence of Crustal Stress Orientations Before Large Earthquakes |
Wang and Mora | The effects of pore pressure on Load-Unload Response Ratio before earthquakes: viewpoint from discrete element method |
Xing and Yin | A Combined Computational Approach towards Earthquake Forecasting |
Yu et al. | A probabilistic approach for earthquake potential evaluation based on the Load/Unload Response ratio method |
Zhang et al. | Application of PI method to the North and Southwest China |
Other geoscience simulation (top) | |
Furumura and Saito | An integrated simulation of seismic wave and tsunami propagation |
Hale | Magma Flow Instabilities: Implications for Long-Period Seismicity |
Regenauer-Lieb et al. | Cracking the brittle-ductile transition zone: the role of fluids |
Saito and Furumura | Three-Dimensional Tsunami Generation due to the Sea-Bottom Deformation |
Ward | Tsunami Simulation - Soup to Nuts |
Yuen et al. | Tsunami Hazards Along the Chinese Coast from Earthquakes in Neighboring Subducting Zones |
Workshop Venue:
The 6th ACES International Workshop will be held at the Novotel Palm Cove Resort, 25 minutes drive North of Cairns, Queensland. The resort is walking distance from the beachside village of Palm Cove, consisting of numerous award-winning cafes, restaurants, bars and boutiques. Palm Cove is also an ideal staging point for tours of the Great Barrier Reef. Information about Cairns and the surrounding area can be obtained from Cairns-Australia.com. | |
Accommodation: Rooms have been reserved at Novotel Palm Cove Resort for all workshop participants. Cairns also offers a range of other world-class accomodation. For more information about other accomodation, please visit Cairns-Australia.com. |
Important Dates:
30 November 2007 | Call for Papers |
31 January 2008 | Deadline for Abstract Submission |
7 March 2008 | Notification to Authors and Final Programme |
30 April 2008 | Early-Bird Registration Closes |
11-16 May 2008 | 6th ACES International Workshop |
Contact Information:
Dion Weatherley | Telephone: +61 7 3346 4133 |
International Organizing Committee: Dion Weatherley (Australia) | Local Organizing Committee: Dion Weatherley (Chairperson) |
