Earthquakes and rupture in material sciences

Parallels between earthquakes, financial crashes and epileptic seizures (PDF 5.2 MB)
Keynote Presentation at the Risk Management Solutions Earthquake Symposium 2008 on "Advances in Earthquake Forecasting", 23rd January, Millenium Broadway Hotel, New York, USA

Extremes in seismology (PDF 2.83 MB)
1:30 h course presented to the CCES group "Extremes", Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday 9 January 2008.
(http://www.slf.ch/weissfluhjoch/index-de.html)

Statistical computer models of material rupture and earthquakes

1) Asymmetric elasticity and long range interactions between earthquakes (PDF 3.4 MB)
2) Multifractal stress activation model and magnitude-dependent Omori law for triggered earthquakes (PDF 3.37 MB)
Rechnergestuetzte Wissenschaften (RW) (Computational Science and Engineering), ETH Zurich, Thursday, 15 November 2007, 15.15 - 17.00h,  HG D 16.2, organized by Professor Kaspar Nipp, in the series of Seminar for Applied Mathematics

"Universal" distribution of inter-event times explained (PDF 4.28 MB)
Invited talk at the 5th International Workshop on Statistical Seismology: Physical and Stochastic Modelling of Earthquake Occurrence and Forecasting (STATSEI5), (EMFCSC, Erice, Sicily, 31 May - 6 June, 2007), directed by M. Cocco, R. Console and S. Wiemer. (http://www.ingv.it/primopiano/erice2007/statseiV/indice.html)

Renormalization of thermal fluctuations by heterogeneous damage for macroscopic rupture processes (PDF 5.3 MB)
invited seminar lecture in the Polymer Physics Group, ETH Zuerich, Hoenggerberg, Wednesdeay, November 8, 2006, invited by Dr. Ulrich Handge and Prof. Oettinger