Faculty Lecture - spring-2016
Recent Developments in Seismology: New Views of Earthquakes and Ground Shaking
May 10, 2016
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Faculty Center, UCLA
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Development in condensed matter physics and high performance computing have enabled new views on the nature of earthquake sources and resultant distant ground shaking. New models incorporating the fractal nature of earthquake source regions, earthquake clustering, and catastrophic damage from diffraction of seismic energy will be described, with implications for societal hazards. Biography Paul Davis is a graduate of the University of Queensland. After appointments in Edmonton, Canada, and Cambridge, he joined the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is Professor of Geophysics. He has published extensively on geophysical topics, especially seismology. His professional honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, fellowship of the Royal Astronomical Society and the American Geophysical Union and a visiting Leverhulme professorship to the University of Oxford.