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Member Since 2005
Sylvain Barbot
Asst Prof, University of Southern California
Professional Experience
University of Southern California
Asst Prof
Education
Doctorate
2009
Current Roles
Member
Tectonophysics Fall Meeting Program Committee
Member
Fall Meeting Program Committee
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received 2020
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Outstanding Reviewer Award - JGR-Solid Earth
Received 2019
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Outstanding Reviewer Award - JGR-Solid Earth
Received 2018
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Publications
Velocity and Temperature Dependence of Steady‐State Friction of Natural Gouge Controlled by Competin...

The empirical rate‐ and state‐dependent friction law is widely used to explain the frictional resistance of rocks. However, the constit...

June 02, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Real area of contact as the state variable in rate-and-state friction
RUPTURE AND DEFORMATION PROCESSES, FROM SLOW TO FAST AND FROM MICRO TO MACRO III POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 15 december 2023
Baoning Wu, Sylvain Barbot
Rate- and state-dependent friction laws are commonly used to explain seismic observations in both laboratory and natural settings. However, the underl...
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Three-dimensional kinematics of the India–Eurasiacollision
QUANTIFYING DEFORMABLE PLATE MODELS OF CIRCUM-PACIFIC AND TETHYAN DOMAINS POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Lifeng Wang, Sylvain Barbot
The collision between India and Eurasia mobilizes multiple processes of continental tectonics.However, how deformation develops within the lithosphere...
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Constitutive Behavior of Rocks During the Seismic Cycle
BRIDGING FIELD AND LABORATORY STUDIES TO UNVEIL THE MECHANISMS OF UNSTABLE FAULT SLIP II POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Sylvain Barbot
Establishing a constitutive law for fault friction is a crucial objective of earthquake science. However, the complex frictional behavior of natural a...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - Present
Member
Fall Meeting Program Committee
2023 - Present
Member
Tectonophysics Fall Meeting Program Committee
2023 - 2024
Fall Meeting Program Representative
Tectonophysics Executive Committee
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