7th Kenji Ishihara Colloquium Series on Earthquake Engineering
Fault Displacement
August 21st-22nd, 2025
University of California, San Diego
Franklin Antonio Hall 1301
Save the date! The 7th Kenji Ishihara Colloquium will be in a couple of months on Fault Displacement. Stay tuned to receive updates on our program and registration.
Click the image on the right to view the save-the-date announcement.
PROGRAM
| Time | Topic & Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30am | 8:30am | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:30am | 8:35am | Welcome and Overview of Program |
| 8:35am | 9:15am | Designing Infrastructure for Surface Fault Rupture Nick Oettle, Ph.D., P.E., G.E. | GEI Consultants, Inc. |
| 9:15am | 9:45am | The IAEA Probabilistic Fault Displacement Hazard Assessment Exercise Zeynep Gulerce | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| 9:45am | 10:00am | Break |
| 10:00am | 10:30am | Selection of Design Fault Displacements for Moderate-Activity Faults Dr. Norman Abrahamson | UC Berkeley, UC Davis |
| 10:30am | 10:50am | Discussion |
| 10:50am | 11:20am | A New Seismotectonic Framework for Active Faults in Metropolitan San Diego Dr. Karl Mueller | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 11:20am | 11:50am | The Resolution of Two Important Questions About the Nature of the San Andreas Fault Dr. Monte Marshall | San Diego State University |
| 11:50am | 12:00pm | Discussion |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | 1:30pm | Design and Construction of the Light Rail Transit Overhead Crossing Seismic Fault Zones Sami Megally, Ph.D., P.E., S.E. and Keith Gazaway, P.E. | Kleinfelder |
| 1:30pm | 2:00pm | Evaluation of Existing Buildings Located on Active Fault Lines Frank Bannon | Reid Middleton, Inc. |
| 2:00pm | 2:15pm | Break |
| 2:15pm | 2:45pm | Seismic Modelling + Performance of High-Rise Concrete Shear Wall Building Adjacent to Fault Chris Smith, P.E., S.E. and Dr. Ehsan Dezhdar, S.E. | Glotman Simpson |
| 2:45pm | 3:00pm | Discussion |
| 3:00pm | 3:30pm | Structural Effects of Large Seismically Induced Permanent Ground Displacement Craig Comartin | CDComartin, Inc. |
| 3:30pm | 4:00pm | Fault Investigation Challenges and Issues In The Urban Setting of Santa Monica, California -- A Reviewer's Perspective Mike Phipps | Cotton, Shires and Associates, Inc. |
| 4:00pm | 4:15pm | Break |
| 4:15pm | 4:45pm | Experience Using Ground Improvement for Surface Fault Rupture Hazard Mitigation Jim Gingery | Keller |
| 4:45pm | 5:00pm | Discussion |
| 5:00pm | 7:00pm | Happy Hour |
VENUE
University of California, San Diego
Franklin Antonio Hall 1301
3180 Voigt Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
REGISTRATION
Coming soon!
LODGING
Click here for a list of hotels near UCSD.
PARKING
There are two structures available for parking near Franklin Antonio Hall: Hopkins and Pangea. The closest parking structure to the venue is Hopkins Parking Structure (view here or here), located on Voigt Dr. off of Hopkins Dr. Please park on Level 7 (top floor – Parking Lot P347) where there are 92 visitor parking spaces. No other levels have visitor parking.
If Hopkins is full, please go to Pangea Parking Structure (view here or here), located on Pangea Dr. off of N. Torrey Pines Rd. Please park on Level 6 (top floor – Parking Lot P376) where there are 100 visitor parking spaces. The 5th floor only has 9 visitor parking spaces.
Parking can be paid for at a pay station within the structure, or through the ParkMobile app or website. More information can be found here.
Click image below to see the parking structures and venue highlighted (from https://maps.ucsd.edu/map/default.htm):
Click image below to see the parking structures and venue highlighted on Google Maps (from https://act.ucsd.edu/maps/):
