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Past Seminars
Click here for the current schedule.
For additional information about past seminars please contact xytian@gps.caltech.edu.
2003: April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec
2004: Jan | Feb | Mar | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec
2005: Jan | Feb | Mar | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
2006: Jan | Feb | Mar | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
2007: Jan | Feb | Mar | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
April 4, 2003 Michael Blampied USGS Predicted seismic potential in San Francisco April 11, 2003 Mark Jellinek UC Berkeley On the structure, fixity and longevity of mantle plumes: Are Earth-like mantle plumes a special case? April 18, 2003 Tim Melbourne Central Washington University Evaluating Reid's elastic rebound theory in light of prevalent slow earthquake April 30, 2003
Special Seminar 4-5 pm in BenioffIsabelle Manighetti IPGP, France Processes of fault growth: insights from Afar normal faults May 2, 2003 Ludovic Margerin LGIT Grenoble Radiative Transfer Methods in Seismology: Crustal and Global Applications May 9, 2003 Domenico Giardini ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Visitor Caltech Mapping source slip from joint inversion of SAR, GPS, teleseismic and local SM waveforms: The Izmit, Duzce and Hector Mine 1999 earthquakes May 16, 2003 Sung Keun Lee Carnegie Institution of Washington The extent of disorder in disordered earth materials: from clays to window glass and magma May 23, 2003 Douglas Miller Exxon Mobile Detecting a Stealth Reservoir in the North Sea with Converted Waves May 30, 2003 Alessia Maggi University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg Imaging low velocity mantle under the Middle East or Worrying about surface waveform tomography June 6, 2003 No seminar - Zilchbrau - - June 13, 2003 Stanislav Sinogeikin University of Illinois Elasticity of minerals at high pressures and temperatures by Brillouin spectroscopy: Implications for Mantle mineralogy June 20, 2003 No Seminar - - June 27, 2003 Susan Hough USGS Site Characterization and Three-dimensional Site Response Investigations with TriNet Data July 4, 2003 No Seminar - Independence Day - - July 11, 2003 Eric Dunham UCSB Dynamic Rupture through Fault Barriers: Energy Concentration and Supershear Bursts July 18, 2003 Shijie Zhong University of Colorado Boulder Dynamics of Multi-scale Mantle Convection and its Implications for Thermal Evolution of the Pacific Plate July 25, 2003 Brian Savage Caltech Tectonic Structures of the Sierra Nevada and Southern California - Investigations though the use of broadband seismic data July 31, 2003
Special Seminar
Thursday 4 -5 pmChris Chapman Schlumberger Modeling of Seismic Waves from a Rough Sea Surface August 1, 2003 Yosuke Aoki Lamont-Doherty Earth Observation of Columbia University Interseismic vertical deformation of the Japanese islands derived from continuous GPS measurements August 8, 2003 Stephanie Prejean USGS, Menlo Park Evidence for Fluid Triggered Seismicity in the Long Valley Caldera, California August 15, 2003 How-Wei Chen National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Non-double couple source? Questions raised from Chi-Chi earthquake August 18, 2003
Special Seminar
Monday 4 - 5 pmJames Natland University of Miami Volcanic Action in the Pacific: 1) Massive Hawaiian landslides; and 2) Fracture Control on Volcanism August 29, 2003 How-Wei Chen National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Nondoupble-couple source? Questions raised from Chi-Chi earthquake September 5, 2003 Juan Contreas CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico Recovering Fault Interaction and Linkage from the Sediments of the Gulf Extensional Province September 12, 2003 Christine Reif UCSD The 410 and 660: Discontinuities with Behavior Issues September 19, 2003 Anaël Lemaitre UCSD A thermodynamical approach to the deformation of amorphous materials, and its compariosn with rate-and-state friction September 26, 2003 No Seminar Divison Picnic - - October 3, 2003 Hans Thybo University of Copenhagen, Denmark Mantle Heterogeneity Detected in High-Resolution Seismic Data October 10, 2003 Thorsten Becker UCSD Constraints on the mechanics of the Southern San Andreas fault system from velocity and stress observations October 17, 2003 Debi Kilb UCSD Estimating the Similarity of Earthquake Focal Mechanisms from Waveform Cross-Correlations in Regions of Minimal Local Azimuthal Station Coverage October 24, 2003 Baosheng Li SUNY at Stony Brook Elastic Behavior and Physical Properties of Earth Minerals at high Pressure and Temperature: Results from Sound velocity and X-ray studies October 31, 2003 Yang Shen SUNY at Stony Brook Imaging Seismic Velocity Structure Beneath the Iceland Hotspot - A Finite-Frequency Approach November 6, 2003
Special Seminar - Joint with CE! Thursday 4-5 pm
Dominic Assimaki MIT Topography effects in the 1999, Athens, earthquake: engineering issues in seismology November 7, 2003 Michael S. Longuet-Higgins UCSD Microseisms and standing waves in the ocean November 14, 2003 Maarten de Hoop Colorado School of Mines Feasibility of imaging Earth's lowermost mantle November 21, 2003 Seiji Tsuboi JAMSTEC, Japan Broadband modeling of seismic waves using the Spectral-Element Method on the Earth Simulator November 28, 2003 No seminar - Thanksgiving December 5, 2003 TBA - - December 12, 2003 No seminar - AGU December 19, 2003 TBA - - December 26, 2003 No seminar - Christmas - - January 2, 2004 No Seminar - - January 9, 2004 Agnes Helmstetter UCLA Properties of triggered seismicity, modeling using the ETAS model and application for earthquake prediction January 16, 2004 Yves M. Leroy Ecole Polytechnique, France Mechanics of low-angle extensional shear zones at the brittle ductile transition January 23, 2004 Miaki Ishii UCSD Inner Core Anisotropy and the Inner-Most Inner Core January 30, 2004 Nadia Lapusta Caltech Low-Heat and Low-Stress Fault Operation in Earthquake Models of Statically Strong but Dynamically Weak Faults February 6, 2004 Rupert Sutherland Institute of Geological and Nuclear Science, New Zealand Plate kinematics of the South Pacific since the Late Cretaceous: resolution of the fast-slow hotspot controversy February 13, 2004 Kristine Larson University of Colorado, Boulder High-Rate GPS Applications for Seismology: What Next? February 20, 2004 Stefan Wiemer Swiss Seismological Service, ETH-Hoenggerberg Spatial variability of the earthquake size distribution from laboratory to global scale February 27, 2004 Vladimir Keilis-Borok UCLA SHORT-TERM EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION: Reverse detection of premonitory phenomena; case histories of advance predictions (San Simeon and Hokkaido earthquakes); current alarm March 5, 2004 Jeff McGuire Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Oceanic Transform Faulting March 12, 2004 No Seminar - Cancelled - - March 19, 2004 Ray Wells USGS Menlo Park Basin-centered asperities in great subduction zone earthquakes - implications for seismic hazards and tectonic erosion at the plate boundary March 26, 2004 No Seminar -- Spring Break - - April 2, 2004 Nozomu Takeuchi University of Tokyo A New Forward and Inverse Problem Solution for Next Earth Structure Models Mon April 12, 2004
Special Seminar
2 pmRaul Madariaga Ecole Normale Superieure Earthquake dynamics and seismic wave radiation April 16, 2004 No Seminar - SSA - - April 23, 2004 Allen McNamara University of Colorado Spherical Thermochemical Convection: Piles, superplumes, and degree-one flow structure April 30, 2004 David Kohlstedt Moore Scholar, University of Minnesota Shearing melt out of the mantle: Relation between mantle flow, melt migration, and seismic anisotropy May 7, 2004 Yehuda Ben-Zion USC Characterization of fault zone structures May 14, 2004 Manuel Aragon CICESE New Kinematic Constraints of Basin Evolution in the Northern Gulf of California Rift Tues, May 18, 2004
Special Seminar 12pmJeremy Bloxham Harvard Three Modes of Dynamo Action in the Solar System: Uranus and Neptune; Earth, Jupiter and Saturn; and Mercury May 21, 2004 No Seminar - - May 28, 2004 Caroline Beghein MIT Probabilistic tomography and radial anisotropy in the mantle June 4, 2004 Ned Field USGS Pasadena Physics Based Seismic Hazard Analysis - Why and How June 11, 2004 No Seminar - Graduation - - June 18, 2004 Raffaella Montelli Princeton Global tomographic models with finite-frequency modeling reveal a variety of plumes in the mantle June 25, 2004 No Seminar - - July 2, 2004 Yuri Fialko UCSD Toward 4-D mapping of surface strain due to the earthquake cycle July 9, 2004 No Seminar - - July 16, 2004 Steve Grand UT Austin The upper mantle beneath the southwestern U.S. July 23, 2004 Anne Mangeney IPGP On the use of Saint-Venant equations for simulating the spreading of a granular mass July 30, 2004
Harry Green UC Riverside Faulting Induced in Subduction Zones by Mineral Reactions: Roles of Cracks and Anticracks August 6, 2004 No Seminar - - August 13, 2004 Don Anderson Caltech Seismic and Lithological Heterogeneity of the Upper Mantle; The Fertile Blob Model August 20, 2004 No Seminar - - August 27, 2004 No Seminar - - September 3, 2004 No Seminar - - September 10, 2004 Andy Jackson University of Leeds Probing the Deep Earth with the Mariner's Needle September 17, 2004 Toshiro Tanimoto UCSB Monitoring Environment by Seismic Waves September 24, 2004 No Seminar - Division Picnic - - October 1, 2004 Swami Krishnan Caltech Fault Rupture to Connection Fracture: Combining Strong Motion Simulations with Building Damage Analyses Special!
October 6, 2004
Wed at NoonKen Hudnut USGS Pops and Puffs - Parkfield and Mount St. Helens October 15, 2004 Jean-Philippe Avouac Caltech Investigating the mechanics of the seismic cycle on megathrust October 22, 2004 Susan Hough USGS Pasadena Remotely Triggered Earthquakes Following Moderate Mainshocks October 29, 2004 No Seminar - - November 5, 2004 Hiroyuki Tanaka UC Riverside Cosmic-ray Muon Radiography of a Volcano November 12, 2004 Jeanne Hardebeck USGS Menlo Park Response of Long Valley Caldera to Changes in the Water Level of Mono Lake November 19, 2004 Paul Asimow Caltech Water in mid-ocean ridge basalts: effects on fractionation and speculations on crustal structure and eruption dynamics November 26, 2004 No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break - - December 3, 2004 Sandeep Rekhi Harvard High pressure behavior of hydrogen in brucite related structure and development of pulsed laser system to heat samples at high pressure December 10, 2004 Ana Ferreira Oxford How Well Do Tomographic Images Explain Surface Waveforms? December 17, 2004 No Seminar - AGU - - Wed December 22, 2004
**206 Thomas**John Clinton Caltech Comments on the Strong Motions During Tokachi-Oki / An Automated Moment Tensor Solution at SCSN Monday January 3, 2005 Georgia Cua Caltech TBA January 7, 2005 Kanani Lee Caltech Constraining the Earth's Lower Mantle composition: Insights from mineral physics January 14, 2005 Hiroo Kanamori, Juliette Artru, Vala Hjorleifsdottir, Chen Ji Caltech The Sumatran Earthquake January 21, 2005 Zhigang Peng UCLA What Can We Learn From Repeating aftershocks? January 28, 2005 John Ebel Boston College Non-Poissonian Seismicity in California: Implications for Short-Term Earthquake Forecasting Y. Tony Song JPL Sensitivity of Tsunamis to Earthquake Source: Based on Satellite Observations and a Global Ocean-Bottom-Pressure Model February 11, 2005 Hersh Gilbert University of Arizona Continental evolution: insights from crustal and upper mantle structure of the Colorado Plateau February 18, 2005 Haemyeong Jung UC Riverside Deformation of serpentinite and its implications for the generation of earthquakes February 25, 2005 Carine Vanpeteghem Virginia Tech Why are we still looking at MgSiO3 perovskite? New insights on old problems March 4, 2005 Sofia Akber Caltech Studying deep Earth materials from computer simulations March 11, 2005 Li Zhao USC Towards a fully three-dimensional seismic tomography Special: Monday, March 14, 2005 Yoshiyuki Kaneda Japan Marine Science and Technology Center Outline of Plate Dynamics Research Program in IFREE/JAMSTEC March 18, 2005 Artem Oganov ETH Zurich High-pressure physics of Earth-forming minerals March 25, 2005 No Seminar - Spring Break - - April 1, 2005 Louis Geli IFREMER TBA Special: Tuesday, April 5, 2005 -- 11:00am Mathias Fink ESPCI Time reversed acoustics April 8, 2005 Sebastien Chevrot CNES Isotropic and Anisotropic High Resolution Tomography: Principles, Methods, and Preliminary Results April 15, 2005 Jennifer Jackson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Heterogeneities in Earth's lower mantle: Iron and aluminum in the spotlight April 22, 2005 Michael Thorne Arizona State University TBA April 29, 2005 TBA - - John Hernlund UCLA How deep mantle structure constrains the temperature of Earth's Core Special:
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
3-4pm
206 ThomasRichard Iverson USGS The Dynamics of Debris Flows and Avalanches May 13, 2005 Sebastian Rost Arizona State University Probing Earth's small-scale structure using array seismology May 20, 2005 TBA - - May 27, 2005 Deborah Smith Caltech Interpreting focal mechanisms and stress rotations in the context of a spatially heterogeneous stress field. June 3, 2005 No seminar - Zilchbrau - - June 10, 2005 No seminar - Graduation - - June 17, 2005 TBA - - June 24, 2005 Zvi Ben-Avraham Tel Aviv University Crustal structure in the Levant and eastern Mediterranean and its implications July 1, 2005 Amir Sagy UCLA Dynamic Tensile Fracture of Rocks: A Geological Indicator of Earthquakes and Impacts July 8, 2005 Jun Korenaga
