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Workshop Agenda

Agenda for June 24-28, 2013, Crustal Deformation Modeling Tutorial. Sessions will be held Monday June 24, Wednesday June 26, and Friday June 28.

Please send suggested revisions to Brad Aagaard.

Pre-workshop Help Session, Wednesday June 19, 1:00pm-3:00pm PDT

This help session will be a Q&A session to help users new to PyLith, CUBIT, and ParaView get started. We will expect that you come prepared with questions.

Session Schedule

Schedule A

Two sessions will be held each day on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for participants in North and South America, Europe, and western Asia at

  • 9:00am-11:00am (PDT, San Francisco)
    • 11:00am-1:00pm (CDT, Chicago)
    • 12:00pm-2:00pm (EDT, New York)
    • 5:00pm-7:00pm (BST, London)
    • 6:00pm-8:00pm (CEST, Paris, Rome)
    • 7:00pm-9:00pm (EEST, Istanbul)
  • 1:00pm-3:00pm (PDT, San Francisco)
    • 3:00pm-5:00pm (CDT, Chicago)
    • 4:00pm-6:00pm (EDT, New York)
    • 9:00pm-11:00pm (BST, London)
    • 10:00pm-12:00am (CEST, Paris, Rome)
    • 11:00pm-1:00am (EEST, Istanbul)

Schedule B

Two sessions will be held each day on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for participants in eastern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand at

  • 4:00pm-6:00pm (Sun, Tue, Thu PDT, San Francisco)
    • 7:00am-9:00am (Mon, Wed, Fri SGT, Singapore)
    • 8:00am-10:00am (JST, Tokyo)
    • 11:00am-1:00pm (NZST, Wellington)
  • 8:00pm-10:00pm (Sun, Tue, Thu PDT, San Francisco)
    • 11:00am-1:00pm (Mon, Wed, Fri SGT, Singapore)
    • 12:00pm-2:00pm (JST, Tokyo)
    • 3:00pm-5:00pm (NZST, Wellington)

Q & A Log from online sessions

Downloadable movies use the H264 codec and play on most movie applications and plugins.

Times listed for each session below are for Schedule A in the PDT time zone (San Francisco) for convenience.

Monday - Intermediate Tutorials

These tutorials are designed for users that have become familiar with PyLith, CUBIT, and ParaView from viewing the other tutorials and/or attending previous workshops. Users are expected to have at least read the PyLith manual and run some of the examples. These tutorials will review the main features of CUBIT and PyLith and introduce users to new PyLith features.

Session I: PyLith, CUBIT, and Paraview Refresher

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule A (incomplete), Schedule B)

Time Title Schedule A Schedule B
9:00am - 9:15am Introduction and overview of tutorials (slides) not recorded YouTube original
9:15am - 9:45am PyLith Overview (slides) YouTube original YouTube original
9:45am - 11:00am CUBIT, PyLith, and ParaView Example
CUBIT YouTube original YouTube original
PyLith YouTube original YouTube original
ParaView YouTube original YouTube original

Session II: Intermediate CUBIT Meshing Strategies

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule A, Schedule B)

Time Title Schedule A Schedule B
1:00pm - 1:10pm Overview (slides) YouTube original YouTube original
1:10pm - 1:45pm 2-D Nonplanar Geometry (slides) YouTube original YouTube original
1:45pm - 2:15pm 3-D Meshing Strategies YouTube original YouTube original
2:15pm - 3:00pm Discretization Size via Field YouTube original YouTube original

Wednesday - Advanced Tutorials

These tutorials build upon the tutorials from Mon and are designed for users that want to use more advanced features of PyLith.

Session III: Static Green's Functions for 3-D Earth Structure

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule A, Schedule B)

Time Title Schedule A Schedule B
9:00am - 9:15am Overview (slides) YouTube original YouTube original
9:15am - 10:15am 2-D Reverse Faulting Example YouTube original YouTube original
10:15am - 10:40am 3D Strike-Slip Faulting Example YouTube original YouTube original
10:40am - 11:00am Troubleshooting YouTube original YouTube original

Session IV: Optimizing Solver Parameters

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule A minor audio problems, Schedule B minor audio problems)

Solver parameter .cfg files discussed in this session.

Time Title Schedule A Schedule B
9:00am - 9:45am Linear Solvers and Preconditioners (slides) YouTube original YouTube original
9:45am - 10:00am Examples with Linear Solver YouTube original YouTube original
10:00am - 10:30am Nonlinear Solver YouTube original YouTube original
10:30am - 11:00am Troubleshooting and Q & A YouTube original YouTube original

Friday - Advanced Tutorials (cont.)

These tutorials build upon the tutorials from Mon and are designed for users that want to use more advanced features of PyLith.

Session V: Fault Friction

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule A, Schedule B)

Time Title Schedule A Schedule B
1:00pm - 1:30pm Overview (slides) YouTube original YouTube original
1:30pm - 2:15pm Quasi-static Example YouTube original YouTube original
2:15pm - 2:40pm Dynamic Example YouTube original YouTube original
2:40pm - 3:00pm Troubleshooting and Q&A YouTube original YouTube original

Session VI: Running PyLith in Parallel

Flash movie recording of session via streaming (Schedule A, Schedule B)

Time Title Schedule A Schedule B
1:00pm - 1:30pm Running on a Desktop (slides) YouTube original YouTube original
1:30pm - 2:00pm Running on a Cluster YouTube original YouTube original
2:00pm - 2:30pm Submitting Batch Jobs YouTube original YouTube original
2:30pm - 3:00pm Q & A YouTube original
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