1999 Annual Meeting Agenda, Information and Registration Form

DATES: Sept. 27-29, 1999

LOCATION: Riviera Resort and Racquet Club, Palm Springs, CA.

CONTACT: John McRaney (, 213-740-5843

We have updated the registration and housing on the SCEC web page for the
annual meeting. Please make a final check on your reservation status and
get back to me if there is an error.

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There will be no organized meals on Sunday. Meals on Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday breakfast are buffet style as at past annual meetings. Wednesday
lunch through Thursday lunch is organized for the US/China GPS workshop
only.

Room assignments for Sunday group meetings:

Group F Noon to 2 p.m. VIP Room
Group B 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. VIP Room
Group C 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mesquite Room
GEM 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Whitewater Room

Steve Day invites all potential contributors to the Group F meeting to 1)
Begin identifying the key achievements of SCEC in the area of source
physics that should be highlighted in the SCEC legacy report, 2) Discuss
how to target research in the next 1-2 years to consolidate those
achievements, and 3) Organize Tuesday morning's "Source Physics Chapter"
discussion session.

The plenary session on Monday will be in the Oleander Room and the poster
session in the Mesquite Room, same rooms as last year.

The SCEC advisory council meeting will now start one hour earlier at 4:30
p.m. on Monday and the SCIGN advisory council meeting will start one-half
hour earlier at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

For the Tuesday morning session on recent earthquakes, Leon Teng will now
make a short presentation on the Taiwan earthquake. For the Turkey
earthquake, Simon McClusky will make the geodesy presentation, Tom Rockwell
the geology presentation, and Nano Seeber the seismology presentation.

For speakers, we will have two overhead, one slide, and one multimedia
projectors.

I have three internet lines for the poster room, one for GEM, one for
outreach, and one for the data center.

Message from Bernard Minster

To: SCEC Community
From: Bernard Minster
Subject: Annual Meeting

What I have in mind for the 1-hour sessions (see agenda) is the following:

The discussion leader should introduce his/her view of the contents of the chapter, as a basis for discussion

A few (up to 3?) people selected by the discussion leader should stand up and present a concise view of what the true SCEC legacy is, concerning the chapter. This should be pretty short if possible -- someone then indicates where SCEC stands in this respect, and what are the major areas where research should be focused over the next 1-2 years in order to wrap up the legacy to a self-contained contribution. In some cases, there will be glaring gaps that may have to be left open for the next community activity (CERC, or whatever). In other cases, it will be pretty clear that a specific activity should be pursued in 2000-01 in order to wrap things up neatly.

The Caucus session is designed so as to permit interested parties in the SCEC community to provide input, make arguments, etc.

The ultimate outcome will be the RFP for next year. It should be designed as SCEC is coming to a sunset (which it is), and we want the sunset to be as glorious as possible. However, long-range prospects and ideas should be identified, even if they end up being pursued under a somewhat different banner.

As I indicated before, this approach is deliberately retrospective. However, it should not prevent us to look far forward and identify where earthquake science should go next. This is the way we'll write a top-notch proposal for the next Center/consortium.

AGENDA

"The SCEC Legacy Workshop"

Sunday, September 26

Arrival in Palm Springs

Visit trenches in San Bernardino (Sally McGill) and San Gorgonio Pass/Burro Flats (Kerry Sieh/Doug Yule) en route

2:00 - 6:00 Group B Pre-Meeting Workshop - Ralph Archuleta

6:00 - 9:00 Group C Pre-Meeting Workshop - Tom Rockwell

6:00 - 9:00 GEM Meeting - John Rundle

Poster Session Set-Up

Note: Poster boards that we have are either 30 x 40 inches or 32 x 40
inches. We will have an adequate supply of scissors, tapes and pins at the hotel.
Computational demos are invited. There will be internet access

Monday, September 27, 1999

8:00 SCEC Steering Committee Meeting

SCEC Plenary Session I

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Introduction - Tom Henyey (including comments on EarthScope)

9:30 Remarks by Jim Whitcomb and John Unger/John Filson

10:00 Education and Outreach Report - Jill Andrews

10:30 Break

11:00 The SCEC "Legacy Document" - Bernard Minster

12:00 Lunch

12:30 - 1:30 1. Seismotectonics Chapter Tom Henyey

1:30 - 2:30 2. Crustal Deformation Chapter Duncan Agnew

2:30 - 3:30 3. Earthquake History Chapter Kerry Sieh

3:30 - 4:30 4. Velocity Model Chapter Rob Clayton

4:30 - 6:30 Caucus Period for Chapters 1-4

5:30 - 7:00 SCEC Advisory Council Meeting with SCEC Steering Committee

Final set-up for poster session
Note: Poster boards that we have are either 30 x 40 inches or 32 x 40
inches. We will have an adequate supply of scissors, tapes and pins at the hotel.

6:45 Dinner
SCEC Advisory Council Executive Session
Special Ceremony

7:30 Icebreaker and Poster Session I

Tuesday, September 28, 1999

SCEC Plenary Session II

8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 SCEC Response to Turkey Earthquake by
Rob Reilinger, Tom Rockwell/James Dolan and Nano Seeber

9:30 SCEC Working Group 2000 Report by Ned Field

10:00 Break

Note: SCIGN Coordinating Board Meeting at 10:15

10:15-11:15 5. Wave Propagation Chapter Ralph Archuleta

11::15 - 12:15 6. Source Physics Chapter Steve Day

12:15 Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 7. SCEC Earthquakes Chapter Lucy Jones

2:00 - 3:00 8. Stress Transfer Chapter Ruth Harris and Ross Stein

3:00 - 4:00 9. Earthquake Potential Chapter Dave Jackson

4:00 - 6:00 Caucus Period for Chapters 5-9

5:00 - 7:00 SCIGN Advisory Council Meeting

6:45 Dinner

7:30 Poster Session II

Wednesday, September 29

SCEC Plenary Session III

8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 - Noon Reports from Legacy Document Chapter Authors (15 minutes) and Discussion on SCEC Legacy and Future - Bernard Minster and Tom Henyey

1. Seismotectonics Tom Henyey
2. Crustal Deformation Duncan Agnew
3. Earthquake History Kerry Sieh
4. Velocity Model Rob Clayton
5. Wave Propagation Ralph Archuleta
6. Source Physics Steve Day
7. SCEC Earthquakes Lucy Jones
8. Stress Transfer Ross Stein
9. Earthquake Potential Dave Jackson

End of SCEC Meeting

1999 US/China GPS Workshop

1:00 US/China GPS Workshop hosted by Walter Mooney and Brad Hager

6:00 Icebreaker and Dinner

Thursday, September 30

8:30 to 9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 to noon US/China GPS Workshop

12:00 Lunch

1:00 to 5:00 US/China GPS Workshop

SCEC Meeting Purpose

To: SCEC Steering Committee, Advisory Council, and SCEC Community

From: Bernard Minster, Tom Henyey, Dave Jackson

Subject: 1999 Annual Meeting

As you know, SCEC (as we know it) is approaching the time when budgets will decrease and many activities will be phased out. This does not obviate by any means ongoing efforts to conceive and design a new consortium-like activity to carry on the mission we have collectively embarked upon into the next decade. This year's annual meeting should focus on setting the stage for an effective transition into this next phase.

A basic message that we wish to convey is that this year's meeting should take a slightly different flavor than our meetings of the last few years. In particular, I hope that the usual exercises of holding working group meetings to identify priorities for the coming year will have largely taken place BEFORE the meeting, either by email, through teleconferences, or through actual meetings. Note that some working groups (e.g. WG E) have historically functioned in this fashion, and this has served them quite well.

If this is done, then in Palm Springs, we can proceed directly to the summary presentations of the consensus achieved in each working group, with concomitantly shorter discussions. For this to work, each WG leader must not only secure input from the WG members, but also seek feedback and input from others who have an abiding interest in the activities of the group. At the same time, any SCEC member who wishes to volunteer input and suggestions should do so by communicating with the appropriate WG leader.

The basic motivation for this strategy is that, after nearly a decade of existence, it is time for SCEC to regroup and summarize its successes and accomplishments, to compare those to the goals we initially set for ourselves when we started, and to identify the challenges ahead, as well as a set of roadmaps we might follow to address these challenges. This process is deliberately retrospective, insofar as it is essential to look back at where we have been in order to make a cogent argument concerning where we intend to go next. You can download a preliminary strawman outline (Microsoft Word 6.0/95 document) for this so-called "legacy" document. (We need a nice title!) or view it online. It is not cast in concrete, naturally, but we hope it will serve as a first step toward defining the flavor of our discussions.

We would like this document to serve as a basis to organize our discussions at the Annual meeting, and a more mature version, which should come out of the meeting, to serve as the means to organize the Center activities over the next two years. Ultimately, the full volume (paper and CD-ROM) will be the final documentation of the SCEC legacy. At the same time, it should help us over the next year to focus our thinking and our directions, so that (1) we fill as many of the gaps as we can, and (2) we define the kind of coordinated community activity that might follow the formal termination of SCEC as an S &T center. Therefore, even though the final document may not be ready for 18 months or so, it would be useful to have preliminary drafts of the various pieces in support of a proposal writing effort, due late Spring 2000.

After we receive comments from the Steering committee, we will put together an agenda for the annual meeting which will follow the draft outline fairly closely. It should be noted that the chapters in the outline do not match the current working groups on a one-to-one basis. This means that there is a need for chapter and working group leaders to coordinate and exchange views and information as part of this process. A Matrix has been developed which is an attempt to identify some important connections to be established. It can also be downloaded as an excel file.

As you can tell, this is a transition year. We should look at it as an opportunity to highlight what we have achieved collectively, and to come up with a clear and logical statement of the challenges we would like to tackle over the next decade.

Registration Form for 1999 SCEC Annual Meeting

The meeting is September 27-29 at the Riviera Resort and Racquet Club in Palm Springs, site of our 1996 and 1998 annual meetings. As usual, SCEC has blocked a large number of rooms for Sunday night (the 26th) through Wednesday night (the 29th). There are a limited number of rooms available for Saturday night (the 25th) for those arriving early. To get the SCEC rate of $85/nite (single, double, more??), you must register by using the form below and indicate the nights you will need a room and who will be sharing with you.

Also, if you are one of the participants staying over for the US/China GPS workshop on September 29-30, please note this on your registration.

Registration and poster abstract deadline is September 10. There are no registration fees and meals are provided to all participants.

Cheers, John McRaney

Registration is closed. A list of attendees is available.