Professional:
Ph.D., Univ. of California at Los Angeles,
1976
Interdisciplinary Professor of Physics, Civil & Environmental Engineering
and Geology
Director, Center for Computational Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Numerical simulations of high dimensional drive
threshold systems; Pattern analysis of complex systems;
Dynamics of driven nonlinear Earth systems; Adaptation in complex systems. Statistical Physics of Earthquakes. Earthquake Forecasting
Selected Recent Publications:
K.F. Tiampo, J.B. Rundle, W. Klein, J.S.S. Martins, and C.D. Ferguson, Ergodic dynamics in a natural threshold system, Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, 238501(1-4) (2003).
JB Rundle, DL Turcotte, C Sammis, W Klein and R. Shcherbakov, Statistical physics approach to understanding the multiscale dynamics of earthquake fault systems (invited), Rev. Geophys. Space Phys., 41(4), DOI 10.1029/2003RG000135 (2003).
J.B. Rundle, K.F. Tiampo, W. Klein and J.S.S. Martins, Self-organization in leaky threshold systems: The influence of near mean field dynamics and its implications for earthquakes, neurobiology and forecasting, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 99, Supplement 1, 2514-2521, (2002)
KF Tiampo, JB Rundle, S. McGinnis, S. Gross and W. Klein, Mean field threshold systems and phase dynamics: An application to earthquake fault systems, Europhys. Lett., 60, 481-487, (2002).
JS de Sa Martins, JB Rundle, M. Anghel, W. Klein, Transition from simplicity to complexity in models of frictional sliding, Phys. Rev. E, 65, 056117(1-4) (2002).
Rundle, P.B., J.B. Rundle, K.F. Tiampo, J.S.S. Martin, S. McGinnis, W. Klein, Nonlinear network dynamics on earthquake fault systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 148501, 2001.
Rundle, J.B., W. Klein and K. Tiampo, Linear pattern dynamics in nonlinear threshold systems, Phys. Rev. E, 61, 2418-2431, 2000. Rundle, J.B., Computational earth system science, Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE), 2, 20-21, 2000.
Preston, E., JS de sa Martins, JB Rundle, M. Anghel and W. Klein, Models of earthquake faults with long-range stress transfer, Computing in Science and Engineering, 2, 34-41, 2000.
Rundle, JB, W. Klein, K. Tiampo and S. Gross, Dynamics of seismicity patterns in systems of earthquake faults, AGU Monograph "Physics of Earthquakes", ed. JB Rundle, D. Turcotte and W. Klein, 2000.
Bhattacharyya, J., A.F. Sheehan, K. Tiampo, and J.B. Rundle, Using genetic algorithms to model broadband regional waveforms for crustal structure in the western United States, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 89, 202-214, 1999.
Ferguson, C.D., W. Klein, and J.B. Rundle, Long range earthquake fault models, Computers in Physics, 12, 34-40, 1998.
Rundle, J.B. E. Preston, S. McGinnis, W. Klein, Why earthquakes stop: Growth and arrest in stochastic fields, Phys. Rev. Lett., 80, 5698-5701, 1998.
Rundle, J.B., S. Gross, W. Klein, CD Ferguson and DL Turcotte, The statistical mechanics of earthquakes, Tectonophysics, 277, 147-164, 1997.
Klein, W., J.B. Rundle and C. Ferguson, Scaling and nucleation in models of earthquake faults, Phys. Rev. Lett., 78, 3793-3796, 1997.
Rundle, J.B., W. Klein, S. Gross and C.D. Ferguson, The traveling density wave model for earthquakes and driven threshold systems, Phys. Rev. E, 56, 293-307, 1997.
e-mail: jbrundle@ucdavis.edu
