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SUMMARY:Slip pulse earthquakes
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DESCRIPTION:Eran Bouchbinder\, Professor at Weizmann Institute of Science\
 , Israel\nAbstract:\nThe spatiotemporal dynamics of frictional systems\, r
 anging from engineering interfaces in mechanical joints to tectonic faults
  that host earthquakes\, are governed by the propagation of interfacial ru
 pture. A prominent rupture mode is self-healing slip pulses\, which featur
 e a finite slipping zone. The physics of slip pulses is qualitatively diff
 erent from their expanding crack-like counterparts\, as they involve the i
 nterplay between leading-edge contact breakage and trailing-edge re-streng
 thening (healing). The latter is intrinsically related to generic properti
 es of frictional interactions at contacting interfaces\, absent in ordinar
 y fracture of bulk materials. In this talk\, I will review a recently deve
 loped theory of two-dimensional slip pulses\, which revealed intriguing dy
 namical properties of slip pulses and provided extensive predictions for t
 heir spatiotemporal evolution. The theoretical predictions are supported b
 y large-scale numerical simulations and\, more recently\, by extensive lab
 oratory experiments. The implications and potential applications of the th
 eory will be discussed as time permits. \n\nReferences:\n\n	The dynamics 
 of unsteady frictional slip pulses [PNAS 120\, e2309374120 (2023)]\n	An eq
 uation of motion for unsteady frictional slip pulses [EPSL 678\, 119831 (2
 026)]\n	Lab earthquakes confirm the theory of frictional slip pulses [arXi
 v:2608.26065 (2026)]\n\n\nBiography:\nEran Bouchbinder is a Professor at W
 eizmann Institute of Science\, Israel. He leads a theoretical physics grou
 p who studies various non-equilibrium phenomena in spatially extended syst
 ems\, addressing basic problems in statistical physic\, condensed-matter p
 hysics\, biophysics\, materials physics\, and geophysics. His work also in
 volves close collaborations with computational and experimental groups.\n\
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