Workshop Program




SUNDAY, September 2, 2007

        Arrival of participants
        Dinner, Icebreaker
19:00 - 21:00


MONDAY, September 3, 2007

        Breakfast
07:20 - 08:20
ORAL SESSION
O1
08:30 - 10:30
        Break
10:30 - 11:00
POSTER SESSION
P1
11:00 - 12:30
        Break
12:30 - 12:45
        Lunch
12:45 - 13:45
        Break
13:45 - 14:00
ORAL SESSION
O2
14:00 - 16:00
        Break
16:00 - 16:30
POSTER SESSION
P2
16:30 - 18:00
        Concert
18:30 - 19:15
        Workshop Dinner
19:15 - 22:30


TUESDAY, September 4, 2007

        Breakfast
07:20 - 08:20
ORAL SESSION
O3
08:30 - 10:30
        Break
10:30 - 11:00
ORAL SESSION
O4
11:00 - 13:00
        Break
13:00 - 13:15
        Lunch
13:15 - 14:15
        Free time
14:15 - 19:00
        Dinner
19:00 - 20:00
        Evening POSTER SESSION
P3
20:00 - 22:00
(wine and beer will be served)


WEDNESDAY, September 5, 2007

        Breakfast
07:20 - 08:20
ORAL SESSION
O5
08:30 - 10:30
        Break
10:30 - 11:00
POSTER SESSION
P4
11:00 - 12:30
        Break
12:30 - 13:00
        Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
        Break
14:00 - 14:30
ORAL SESSION
O6
14:30 - 17:00
        Concluding speech
17:00 - 17.10
        Garden Party
18:00 - 22:00


THURSDAY, September 6, 2007

        Breakfast
07:00 - 08:30
        Departure of participants


ORAL SESSION O1
Convenor: Jozef Kristek
        08:30
Massimo Cocco, Elisa Tinti
SCALE DEPENDENCE IN THE DYNAMICS OF EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE PROPAGATION: EVIDENCE FROM GEOLOGICAL AND SEISMOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
        09:00
Brad T. Aagaard, Thomas H. Heaton
CONSTRAINING FAULT CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIOR WITH SLIP AND STRESS HETEROGENEITY
        09:30
Eric M. Dunham, David Belanger, James R. Rice
EFFECTIVE NORMAL STRESS CHANGES IN RUPTURE DYNAMICS
        10:00
Takehito Suzuki, Teruo Yamashita
DIVERSITY OF DYNAMIC EARTHQUAKE SLIP CONTROLLED BY A SINGLE NONDIMENSIONAL PARAMETER



ORAL SESSION O2
Convenor: Eiichi Fukuyama
        14:00
Michel Bouchon, Hayrullah Karabulut
WHAT CONTROLS RUPTURE VELOCITY DURING EARTHQUAKES ?
        14:30
Xiaofei Chen, Haiming Zhang
RUPTURE DYNAMICS OF EARTHQUAKE FAULT IN 3D HALF-SPACE AND OCCURRENCE OF SUPERSHEAR TRANSITION
        15:00
Yi Liu, Nadia Lapusta
TRANSITION OF MODE II CRACKS FROM SUB-RAYLEIGH TO SUPERSHEAR SPEEDS IN THE PRESENCE OF FAVORABLE HETEROGENEITY
        15:30
Jean-Paul Ampuero
DYNAMIC RUPTURE ON VELOCITY-WEAKENING BIMATERIAL FAULTS WITH OFF-FAULT PLASTICITY AND DAMAGE



ORAL SESSION O3
Convenor: Sophie Peyrat
        08:30
Luis A. Dalguer, Steven M. Day
EFFECTS OF 3D ON THE RUPTURE DIRECTIONALITY OF RUPTURE PROPAGATION AT BIMATERIAL INTERFACE
        09:00
Ryosuke Ando, Christopher H. Scholz
RUPTURE DYNAMICS, SEISMIC CYCLES AND GEOMETRICAL EVOLUTION OF WAVY FAULTS
        09:30
David D. Oglesby
ISSUES IN INTERACTING STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS
        10:00
Yuko Kase
SLIP-LENGTH SCALING IN MULTI-SEGMENT RUPTURE: DEPENDENCE ON MAXIMUM SHEAR STRESS DIRECTION



ORAL SESSION O4
Convenor: Xiaofei Chen
        11:00
Michel Campillo, Isabelle Manighetti, Sebastien Hok
EARTHQUAKE SCALING AND GENERIC PROPERTIES OF SLIP PROFILES
        11:30
Nadia Lapusta
INSIGHTS FROM MODELING LONG-TERM SLIP HISTORIES OF FAULTS GOVERNED BY LABORATORY-DERIVED FRICTION LAWS
        12:00
Martin P. Mai
QUANTIFYING PROPERTIES OF LARGE-SLIP “ASPERITIES” IN EARTHQUAKE SOURCE MODELS
        12:30
Alexander A. Gusev
PROPERTIES OF HIGH-FREQUENCY SEISMIC RADIATION AND INTRINSIC FAULT STRUCTURE RELEVANT TO REALISTIC SOURCE PROCESS SIMULATION



ORAL SESSION O5
Convenor: Ruth Harris
        08:30
Ruth A. Harris, Michael Barall, Ralph Archuleta, Brad Aagaard, Jean Paul Ampuero, Harsha Bhat, Luis Dalguer, Steven Day, Benchun Duan, Eric Dunham, Geoff Ely, Yuko Kase, Nadia Lapusta, Yi Liu, Shuo Ma, David Oglesby, Kim Olsen, Arben Pitarka, Elizabeth Templeton
THE SCEC/USGS EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE DYNAMICS CODE VALIDATION EXERCISE
        09:00
Yoshihiro Kaneko, Nadia Lapusta, Jean-Paul Ampuero
SPECTRAL ELEMENT MODELING OF DYNAMIC RUPTURE AND LONG-TERM SLIP ON RATE AND STATE FAULTS
        09:30
Wenbo Zhang, Tomotaka Iwata, Kojiro Irikura
DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF A DIPPING FAULT USING A 3D-FDM WITH NONUNIFORM GRID SPACING
        10:00
Peter Moczo, Martin Galis, Jozef Kristek, Miriam Kristekova
THE STAGGERED-GRID FD AND RESTORING-FORCE FE IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THE TSN METHOD



ORAL SESSION O6
Convenor: Elisa Tinti
        14:30
Eiichi Fukuyama, Shin Aoi, Chihiro Hashimoto, Ryosuke Ando, Mitsuhiro Matsuúra
SIMULATION OF EARTHQUAKE DYNAMIC RUPTURE AND GROUND MOTIONS FOR THE 2003 TOKACHI-OKI EARTHQUAKE
        15:00
Damiano Monelli, Martin P. Mai
NON-LINEAR SOURCE INVERSION AND BAYESIAN INFERENCE FOR A SYNTHETIC TEST CASE AND THE 2000 WESTERN TOTTORI EARTHQUAKE
        15:30
Nelson Pulido, Luis Dalguer
BROADBAND STRONG GROUND MOTION SIMULATION BASED ON A DYNAMIC FAULT RUPTURE MODEL: APPLICATION TO THE 2000 TOTTORI, JAPAN EARTHQUAKE
        16:00
Artur Cichowicz
DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE ASPERITIES OF THE STILFONTEIN EARTHQUAKE, ML5.3
        16:30
Koji Uenishi, Shunsuke Sakurai
SEISMIC WAVES IN THE VERY HIGH FREQUENCY (VHF) RANGE: EXISTENCE CONJECTURED THROUGH DYNAMIC FAILURES OF UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES



POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Convenor: Hayrullah Karabulut
Ryosuke Ando, Eiichi Fukuyama, Shin Aoi, Chihiro Hashimoto, Mitsuhiro Matsuúra
PREDICTABILITY OF GROUND MOTION: SIMULATIONS FOR THE 2003 TOKACHI-OKI-LIKE EARTHQUAKE
Kimiyuki Asano, Tomotaka Iwata
BROADBAND SOURCE INVERSION FOR ESTIMATING HETEROGENEOUS SLIP AND SLIP-VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS USING EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTION AND CRACK SOURCE MODEL
Gilbert B. Brietzke, Alain Cochard, Heiner Igel
DYNAMIC RUPTURE ALONG BIMATERIAL INTERFACES IN 3D
Ting Chen, Nadia Lapusta
SIMULATIONS OF SMALL REPEATING EARTHQUAKES THAT REPRODUCE THE OBSERVED SCALING OF SEISMIC MOMENT WITH RECURRENCE TIME
Antonella Cirella, Elisa Tinti, Alessio Piatanesi, Massimo Cocco
USING GEOPHYSICAL DATA INVERSION TO CONSTRAIN EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS: A STUDY ON DYNAMICALLY CONSISTENT SOURCE TIME FUNCTIONS
Pascal Favreau, Sylvie Wolf, Ioan R. Ionescu
FEM - FDM COUPLING STRATEGIES FOR WAVE PROPAGATION. APPLICATION TO SEISMIC RUPTURE MODELING
Sebastien Hok, Michel Campillo, Ioan Ionescu, Fabrice Cotton
2D AND 3D RUPTURE DYNAMICS WITH NON-ELASTIC BEHAVIOUR IN THE BULK
Yi Liu, Nadia Lapusta
INTERACTION OF DYNAMIC RUPTURE WITH FAULT HETEROGENEITY OVER SEVERAL EARTHQUAKE CYCLES IN 3D SIMULATIONS OF SEISMIC AND ASEISMIC FAULT SLIP
Peter Pazak, Peter Franek, Peter Moczo, Jozef Kristek, Martin Galis, Miriam Kristekova
THE SPICE CODE VALIDATION
Sophie Peyrat, Pascal Favreau
SOURCE RUPTURE PROCESS OF THE 2005 TARAPACA INTERMEDIATE DEPTH EARTHQUAKE
Leonardo Ramirez-Guzman, Jacobo Bielak
STRESS GLUT AND SPLIT NODE METHODS FOR PLANAR AND CURVED FAULTS USING THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD: SH CASE
Jan Schmedes, Ralph J. Archuleta, Daniel Lavallee
ON THE SPATIAL CORRELATION OF EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS
Jan Šílený
RESOLUTION OF NON-DOUBLE-COUPLE MECHANISM: SIMULATION OF SOULTZ INJECTION INDUCED SEISMICITY
Zheqiang Shi, Yehuda Ben-Zion, Alan Needleman
ENERGY PARTITION DURING DYNAMIC RUPTURE PROCESS IN MODELS WITH BIMATERIAL INTERFACE AND SPONTANEOUS GENERATION OF OFF-FAULT PLASTIC STRAIN
Antonio Uribe, Sixto Fernandez, Carlos Valdez
MODELING OF THE EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE 5.0 THAT OCCURRED ON OCTOBER 28TH, 1998 IN CENTRAL MEXICO
Vaclav Vavrycuk, Marco Bohnhoff, Zuzana Jechumtalova, Petr Kolar, Jan Sileny
CRUSTAL ANISOTROPY RETRIEVED FROM NON-DOUBLE-COUPLE MECHANISMS OF MICRO-EARTHQUAKES INDUCED DURING THE 2000 INJECTION EXPERIMENT AT THE KTB SITE, GERMANY



Additional Information about Transportation


Transportation from Bratislava to the Smolenice Castle will be organized.

The bus pick-up places in Bratislava:
   •    Autobusova stanica Mlynske Nivy (central bus station Mlynske Nivy)
   •    Bratislava hlavna stanica (central railway station)
   •    Bratislava Petrzalka (Petrzalka railway station)
   •    Letisko Bratislava (the M. R. Stefanik Airport Bratislava, BTS)
The pick-up schedule will be determined according to travel information obtained from participants.

Participants may conveniently fly directly to Bratislava (main connecting airports are Munich and Prague). Several low-cost airline companies fly to Bratislava (e.g., SkyEurope, RyanAir).

Participants may also fly to Vienna, Austria. The Vienna International Airport (VIE) is located only 46 km from Bratislava.
There is at least one bus connection each hour from the Vienna airport to the Bratislava central bus station Mlynske Nivy (Autobusova stanica Mlynske Nivy). The bus stop at the airport is located directly in front of the arrival hall (less than 50 m from the arrival gate). For more details see:

   •    Eurolines - timetable
   •    Blaguss - timetable
   •    Blaguss - online booking
   •    SkyEurope - info on the bus/train connections

Alternatively participants may arrive in Vienna Railway Station (Südbahnhof or Westbahnhof). The participants may use one of many train connections from Vienna to Bratislava (Bratislava hlavna stanica or Bratislava Petrzalka).

Participants who will use bus to arrive in Smolenice (village) may contact LOC (Peter Moczo +421 905 397 882, Miriam Kristeková +421 905 138 221, Peter Labák +421 905 428 047, Jozef Kristek +421 908 329 804) for a local pick up.

Information for those who will use a car to arrive in Smolenice Castle.
  • Suggested route - Route Map, Route Description

  • Weather Forecast Links


  • http://english.wunderground.com
  • http://weather.yahoo.com
  • http://www.worldweather.org
  • http://weather.edition.cnn.com


  • Insurance


    Please note that the Organizing Committee does not take out any health, accident or damage insurance of your participation in the workshop. Such insurance is an individual responsibility of each participant.


    Money Exchange


    Bank Slovenská sporiteľňa (www.slsp.sk)
    SNP 85
    919 04 Smolenice

    Business Hours:
    Monday: 07:45 - 12:00 12:30 - 15:00
    Tuesday: 07:45 - 12:00 12:30 - 15:00
    Wednesday: 07:45 - 12:00 12:30 - 16:15
    Thursday: 07:45 - 12:00 12:30 - 15:00
    Friday: 07:45 - 12:00 12:30 - 15:00


    Bank VUB (www.vub.sk)
    SNP 12
    919 04 Smolenice

    Business Hours:
    Monday: 08:30 - 12:00 13:00 - 16:00
    Tuesday: 08:30 - 12:00 13:00 - 16:00
    Wednesday: 08:30 - 12:00 13:00 - 16:00
    Thursday: 08:30 - 12:00 13:00 - 16:00
    Friday: 08:30 - 12:00 13:00 - 16:00

    Exchange of limited amount of money will be possible at the castle.