Introduction by Ben-Zion, Y. and C. G. Sammis.- Slip sequences in laboratory experiments resulting from inhomogeneous shear as analogs of earthquakes associated with a fault edge by Rubinstein, S. M., I. Barel, Z. Reches, O. M. Braun;M. Urbakh and J. Fineberg.- Singular elasto-static field near a fault kink by Arias, R., R. Madariaga, and M. Adda-Bedia.- The Micromechanics of Brittle Solids in Triaxial Compression by Bhat, H. S., C. G Sammis and A. J Rosakis.- The elastic strain energy of damaged solids with applications to nonlinear deformation of crystalline rocks by Hamiel, Y., V. Lyakhovsky and Y. Ben-Zion.- Slow Dynamics of Earth Materials: An Experimental Overview by Ten Cate, J. A..- A unifying phase diagram for the dynamics of sheared solids and granular materials by Ben-Zion, Y., Dahmen, K. A. and J. T. Uhl.- Granular controls on periodicity of stick-slip events: kinematics and force-chains in an experimental fault by Hayman, N. W., L. Ducloue; K. L. Foco and K. E. Daniels.- Stick-Slip and the transition to Sliding in a 2D Granular Medium and a Fixed Particle Lattice by Krim, J., P. Yu, and R. P. Behringer.- Breaking up: comminution mechanisms in sheared fault gouge by Mair, K. and S. Abe.- The Mechanical Coupling of Fluid-Filled Granular Material Under Shear by Goren, L., E. Aharonov, D. Sparks and R. Toussaint.- The Role of Adsorbed Water on the Friction of a Layer of Submicron Particles by Sammis, C. G., D. A. Lockner and Z. Reches.- Effect of surface morphology on the dissipation during shear and slip along a rock-rock interface that contains a visco-elastic core by Angheluta, L., T. Candela; J. Mathiesen and F. Renard.- Surface roughness of ancient seismic faults: a combined LIDAR and high-resolution photogrammetric analysis of fault trace profiles by Bistacchi, A., W. Ashley Griffith, S. A. Smith, G. Di Toro, R. R. Jones and S. Nielsen.- Principal Slip Zones in Limestone: Microstructural Characterization and Implications for the Seismic Cycle (Tre Monti fault, central Apennines, Italy) by Smith, S. A. F., A. Billi, G. Di Toro and R. Spiess.- Earthquake Rupture at Focal Depth: Part I. Structure of the Pretorius Fault, TauTona Mine, South Africa by Heesakkers, V., S. K. Murphy, D. A. Lockner and Z. Reches.- Earthquake Rupture at Focal Depth: Part II. The 2004 M2.2 earthquake along the Pretorius fault by Heesakkers, V., S. K. Murphy and Z. Reches.