Sunday, September 8

Session 1: State of SCEC, Horizon Ballroom This opening session marks the beginning of the annual meeting. The Center Director Yehuda Ben-Zion (USC) and agency representatives will provide an update on SCEC's progress and future endeavors. Mark Benthien (USC) and Gaby Noriega (USC) will then highlight the Center's outreach and education efforts, and the opportunities for the community to engage in the SCEC collaboration.

Moderators: Tim Dawson (CGS) and Rachel Abercrombie (Boston University)

Session 2: SCEC Earthquake System Science, Horizon Ballroom Center Co-Director Greg Beroza (Stanford) and science group leaders will introduce SCEC's science goals and recent achievements. In the coming days, we will explore these results further through discussions and poster presentations by the SCEC community. The session will conclude with a Distinguished Lecture from Ruth Harris (USGS), who will offer insights and inspiration for the future of SCEC and earthquake science.

Moderators: Alice Gabriel (UCSD) and Greg Beroza (Stanford)

Monday, September 9

SCEC Transitions Program Breakfast Club, Hilton Poolside Join fellow students and early-career peers and connect with experienced SCEC researchers in a relaxed, informal setting. Participants will gain valuable insights on networking strategies, fostering collaboration, maintaining work-life balance, and more. Space is limited! Register for the event.

Session 3: New Directions for the Statewide Center, Horizon Ballroom

This session will explore science opportunities enabled by the increased geographic scope of the Statewide Center. Presentations will feature four different areas within the transform plate boundary beyond southern California, including: the Walker Lane and Eastern California Shear Zone (Steve Wesnousky, UNR), the Mendocino Triple Junction (Kathryn Materna, UC Boulder), California's Creeping Faults (Josie Nevitt, USGS), and uplift along the larger San Andreas Fault System (George Hilley, Stanford). These talks will introduce topics for subsequent moderated discussions on new science opportunities.

Moderators: Kim Blisniuk (SJSU) and Annemarie Baltay (USGS)

• The Walker Lane and Eastern California Shear Zones, Steve Wesnousky (UNR)
• The Mendocino Triple Junction: Faulting Complexity Onshore and Offshore, Kathryn Materna (UC Boulder)
• Unsolved Mysteries of California's Creeping Faults, Josie Nevitt (USGS)
• Past Work and Future Opportunities for Understanding How Strike-Slip Faults and Secondary Structures Produce Vertical Motions and Topography in the San Francisco Bay Area, George Hilley (Stanford)

Session 4: Towards Resilience, Horizon Ballroom This session will feature ways in which SCEC science can impact earthquake resilience through communication, education, and outreach, and by interfacing with earthquake engineers. These efforts form a necessary link in translating SCEC science achievements into useful information for reducing vulnerability to earthquakes. Ayse Hortacsu (ATC) and Wendy Bohon (CGS) will present talks to inspire broader community efforts in California.

• What does resilience look like?, Ayse Hortacsu (ATC)
• Communicating about earthquakes in crisis and calm, Wendy Bohon (CGS)

Tuesday, September 10

Session 5: What's Next in Earthquakes and AI? Horizon Ballroom

The methods of artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning, are having a profound impact on earthquake science. This began with seismology, but has since broadened to other disciplines. This session will feature talks from Zhiang Chen (Caltech) and Brittany Erickson (Oregon) on some of the latest developments that will serve as the starting point for a community discussion of future opportunities for AI in earthquake science.

• Robotics for earthquake science: more data, new analyses, Zhiang Chen (Caltech)
• Potentials of physics-informed deep learning in earthquake seismology, Brittany Erickson (Oregon)

Session 6: Earthquake Dynamics Across Scales, Horizon Ballroom

Earthquakes involve processes that span many orders of magnitude in spatial scale, ranging from the grain scale to the plate boundary scale, which demands an interdisciplinary approach to understanding their behavior. In this session, talks by Heather Savage (UCSC) and Folarin Kolawole (Columbia) will prompt us to consider aspects of earthquake dynamics as informed by geologic indicators, and seed discussions on research directions that aim to bridge scales in earthquake science.

• Finding Earthquakes in the Rock Record, Heather Savage (UCSC)
• Modulating Strain Release: Crustal Stretching and the Interplay of Evolving Fault Rheology and Strain Localization, Folarin Kolawole (Columbia)

Wednesday, September 11

Session 7: Time-Dependent Response, Horizon Ballroom

A growing body of work is illuminating ways in which time-varying Earth properties can inform processes related to earthquakes. Marine Denolle (UW) and Stacy Larochelle (Columbia) will give talks in this session to highlight recent advances in this area and how they might be used to motivate future research across the plate boundary system.

• Tracking Temporal Changes in the Subsurface Structure Near Faults and Populated Areas, Marine Denolle (UW)
• 17 years of hydrology-driven geodetic deformation in California's Sacramento Valley, Stacy Larochelle (Columbia)

Session 8: SCEC Collaboration Planning, Horizon Ballroom

Each year, SCEC solicits proposals for research, workshops, and trainings through a competitive process, typically attracting hundreds of investigators to contribute to the Center's programs and activities. This concluding session will review key discussion points from the previous days' sessions and explore their implications for the Statewide California Earthquake Center's next two-year plan. This discussion will also inform the 2025 SCEC Science Plan and request for proposals.

Moderators: Greg Beroza (Stanford) and Alice Gabriel (UCSD)