Agenda

Agenda schedule - All times are Pacific Time and may be subject to change

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

8:30-9:30am: Breakfast/coffee (Outside near Arms Laboratory)

9:30-9:45am: Introductions (Committee and Harry Atwater, Chair of the Engineering and Applied Science Division at Caltech)

Presentations - Theme 1: Source physics explained — What nonlinear dynamics and chaotic systems taught us

9:45-10:15am: Hiroo Kanamori (Caltech), Anatomy of 'repeating' great earthquakes

10:15-10:45am: Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Building the virtual earthquake machine: challenges and opportunities

10:45-11:15am: Ralph Archuleta (UC Santa Barbara), A double corner source spectrum and its relation to a slip pulse model of an earthquake rupture

11:15-11:45am: Jose Andrade (Caltech), Discrete complex system modeling: the role of granular mechanics in predicting failure and instability from the grain scale to the structural scale

11:45-12:00pm Discussion

12:00-1:15pm Lunch

Presentations - Theme 2: New networks, and their products and uses

1:15-1:45pm: Richard Allen (UC Berkeley), Sensors, data, warnings...everywhere

1:45-2:15pm: David Wald (U.S. Geological Survey), A glance at the future of rapid earthquake information systems

2:15-2:45pm: Monica Kohler (Caltech), Taking advantage of the Internet of Things for seismic networks

2:45-3:00pm: Discussion

3:00-3:30pm: Coffee break (Outside near Arms Laboratory)

Presentations - Theme 3: Solved! The answers to PSHA and PBE in 10 years

3:30-4:00pm: Jon Stewart (UCLA), Current and future applications of non-ergodic site response for seismic hazard analysis

4:00-4:30pm: Kenny Buyco (Arup), Custom design guidelines for resilience-minded organizations: a possible future for performance-based engineering

4:30-5:00pm: CB Crouse (Aecom), Possible use of 3-D numerical simulations in the seismic design of tall buildings in southern California 50 years from now

5:00-5:15pm: Discussion

6:00-7:00pm: Cocktails (Caltech Athenaeum Main Patio)

7:00-9:00pm: Dinner (Caltech Athenaeum Main Lounge)

8:00pm: Presentation and Acknowledgments (Committee and Tim Colonius, Executive Officer of the Dept. of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Caltech)

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

9:00-10:00am: Breakfast/Coffee (Outside near Arms Laboratory)

Presentations - Theme 4: Latest technologies you didn't know about!

10:00-10:30am: Haeyoung Noh (Stanford University), Towards structures as sensors: you, your health, and building vibrations

10:30-11:00am: Zhongwen Zhan (Caltech), Fiber-optic sensing for earthquake and engineering seismology

11:00-11:30am: Shervin Taghavi (STL Scientific/Caltech), WeighCam, a new non-invasive electro-optical system measuring building and bridge dynamics

11:30-11:45am: Discussion

11:45-1:15pm: Lunch

Presentations - Theme 5: Ground motions — Successfully predicted! Details at 11 pm

1:15-1:45pm: Brad Aagaard (U.S. Geological Survey), The future of ground-motion modeling - overcoming current challenges and quantifying uncertainties

1:45-2:15pm: Men Andrin Meier (ETH Zurich), The swiss cheese approach to earthquake physics

2:15-2:45pm: Victor Tsai (Brown University), High-frequency earthquake ground motions from complex fault zones

2:45-3:00pm: Discussion

3:00-3:30pm: Tom Heaton (Caltech) – Remarks

3:30-3:45pm: Symposium Committee - Concluding remarks

End of symposium