Program
Thursday, August 21, 2008
8:00-9:00
Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:20
Introductory Remarks (Chancellor Vanderhoef, Univesrity of California, Davis;
Secretary General Kenneth McGillivray, Association of Pacific Rim Universities; Dean
Winston Ko, University of California, Davis; and Vice Provost William Lacey, University
of California, Davis)
9:20-9:50
Overview of the Restoration Program from Giant Earthquakes and Tsunamis Project,
Teruyuki Kato, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
9:50-10:20
Estimates of Rupture Propagation for the July 17, 2006 West Java Tsunami
Earthquake, Jim Mori, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
10:20-10:50
Break
10:50-11:20
An integrated simulation of seismic waves and tsunami generation and propagation,
Takashi Furumura, CIDIR, University of Tokyo
11:20-11:40
Tsunami Alarm: A Theoretical Model, Deepak Bhattacharya, NGO/Social Service
11:40-12:00
Numerical Simulation of Inundation Caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in the
City of Trincomalee on the East Coast of Sri Lanka, Janaka Wijetunge, Department of
Engineering, University of Peradeniya
12:00-12:20
Giant earthquake and tsunamis: Evidence from paleoseismology, Kenji Satake,
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
12:20-2:00
Afternoon break
2:00-2:30
Study of Self-risk Management of Local Residents for ‘Nankai Earthquake’, Takashi
Matsukura, Kyoto University
2:30-2:50
Building Resilient Communities through Long-term Post-Disaster Recovery Planning
in the Cascadia Region: Lessons Learned and Next Steps, Krista Dillon, University of
Oregon
2:50-3:10
A Public Health Approach to Reducing Earthquake Risk, Lisa Grant Ludwig, Program in
Public Health, University of California, Irvine
3:10-3:40
Break
3:40-4:00
Experiences of field work carried out to establish the effect on livelihood of peoples
lives in the aftermath of 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami-Case Study of Maldives, Ali
Rasheed, Auckland University of Technology
4:00-4:20
Natural Disasters as the End of the Insurance Industry? Scaled Recovery and
Managed Environments. A Media Analysis, 2004-2006, Tristan Sturm, Department of
Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
4:20-4:40
Revised dates of large earthquakes at Carrizo Plain section of the San Andreas Fault,
California, since A.D. 1280, Sinan Akciz, Program in Public Health, University of
California, Irvine; Lisa Grant, Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine; J
Ramon Arrowsmith, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
4:40-5:00
Using Virtual California Simulations of the Physics of Realistic Fault Systems to
Compute Earthquake Forecast Probabilities, John B. Rundle, Department of Physics,
University of California, Davis; Jordan Van Aalsburg, Department of Physics, University
of California, Davis; Lisa B. Grant, Program in Public Health, University of California,
Irvine; Paul B. Rundle, Department of Physics, University of California, Davis; Gleb
Yakovlev, Computational Science and Engineering Center, University of California,
Davis; Donald L. Turcotte, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis;
Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; Kristy F. Tiampo,
Department of Earth Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada
5:00-5:10
Invitation to 2009 APRU Symposium by Yih-Min Wu, Department of Geosciences,
National Taiwan University
6:00-6:30
Hors d’oeuvres
6:30
Dinner Reception
Friday, August 22, 2008
8:00-9:00
Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:30
NASA’s DESDynI Mission for Studying Multihazards Around the Pacific Rim, Andrea
Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technolgy
9:30-9:50
Uncertainty Models for Hazard Analysis, Michael Beer, National University of
Singapore
9:50-10:10
Universal Scaling Laws for Natural Hazards, Donald L. Turcotte, Department of
Geology, University of California, Davis
10:10-10:30
Seismicity changes before the 1999 Chi-Chi Mw7.6 and 2003 Chengkung Mw6.8
Taiwan earthquakes, Yih-Min Wu, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan
University.
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:20
Earthquake-Soil-Structure Systems, Boris Jeremic, Sashi Kunnath, Kallol Sett and Nima
Tafazzoli, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California,
Davis
11:20-11:40
Record-Breaking Events on a Level Playing Field, William Newman, University of
California, Los Angeles; Donald L. Turcotte, Department of Geology, University of
California, Davis
11:40-12:00
Progress towards a Japan Integrated Velocity Structure Model and Long-Period
Ground Motion Hazard Maps, Kazuki Koketsu, Earthquake Research Institute,
University of Tokyo
12:00-2:00
Afternoon break
2:00-2:30
Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing, Geoffrey Fox and Marlon Pierce, Community Grids
Laboratory, Indiana University
2:30-2:50
QuakeTables: A Federated Database for Earthquake Science Data in the QuakeSim
Modeling Environment, Lisa Grant, University of California, Irvine; Andrea Donnellan,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CIT; Jay Parker, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CIT; Rami
Alghanmi, University of Southern California; Dennis McLeod, University of Southern
California; Marlon Pierce, Indiana University
2:50-3:10
QuakeSim: Simulating Earthquakes in a Web Services Environment, Margaret
Glasscoe, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CIT; Geoffrey Fox, Community Grids Laboratory,
Indiana University; Dennis McLeod, Semantic Information Research Laboratory,
University of Southern California; Walter Brooks, NASA Ames Research Center; Lisa
Grant, University of California, Irvine; Marlon Pierce, Community Grids Laboratory,
Indiana University; Terry Tullis, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University;
John Rundle, Department of Physics, Geology and Engineering, University of California,
Davis; Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CIT
3:10-3:40
Break
3:40-4:00
QuakeSim Web Computing Infrastructure, Marlon Pierce and Geoffrey Fox,
Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University
4:00-4:20
NASA QuakeSim California remote sensing and stress change calculations with the
Geophysical Finite Element Tool (GeoFEST), Jay Parker, Margaret Glasscoe, Gregory
Lyzenga, Charles Norton, Paul Lundgren and Andrea Donnellan, NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
4:20-4:40
Warehousing Earthquake, InSAR, and Hazard Data: Large Data Sets and Interactive
Data Publication, Mark Yoder, Gleb Morein and John B. Rundle, Department of
Physics, University of California, Davis.
4:40-5:00
Title TBA, Louise Kellogg, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis