mitigation.
Kobe, Japan January 24-25,2005
"Disaster Prevention Research Forum (DPRF)" will meet in Kobe, Japan, January 24-25 next year under theme "Japan-US joint symposium for natural disaster mitigation." And it comes as a great pleasure to be able to tell you this. DPRF was established in December, 2002, for planning of research collaboration system about various kinds of natural disasters. To plan future US-Japan collaboration in natural disaster reduction, we will focus on the methods of hazard evaluation, mapping, and the future outlook for the partnership between the both countries at this symposium. The program comprise five sessions which are earthquakes, volcanoes, flood, landslide, and Risk Management. Each sessio will include dynamic interactions.
The head quarter of the DPRF consists of
DPRI (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto Univ.)
ERI (Earthquake Research Institute, Univ. of Tokyo)
NIED (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention)
The Symposium will be held at Shin-Kobe Oriental Hotel, in Kobe.
The official language of the symposium is English. Simultaneous interpretations are provided.
Ms.Momoe Nakamura
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
3-1 Tennnodai Tsukuba-shi, Ibarakiken 305-0006, Japan
Email: momoe@bosai.go.jp
Phone: +81-29-863-7698
Fax: +81-29-851-1622
Mitigation."
Each presenter will have 20 minutes for presentation and a
10 minute question and answer period.
Kobe, Japan 2005/01/24-2005/01/25
Hosted by Disaster Prevention Research Forum (DPRF)
Day-1 January 24 (Mon)
Chairperson : Eisuke Fujita (NIED)
| 12:00 | Registration | |
| 13:00 | Opening Address | Kazuya Inoue (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 13:10 | Guest Speech | Takayuki Nakamura (MEXT) |
| 13:30 | Guest Speech | Joy Pauschke (NSF) |
| (Earthquake) | |
| 13:50 | Kazuki Koketsu(University of Tokyo) |
| 14:20 | Naoshi Hirata (University of Tokyo) |
| 14:50 | Ralph J. Archuleta (UC Santa Barbara) |
| 15:20-16:20 | Poster Session (Coffee Break) |
| (Volcano) | |
| 16:20 | Hitoshi Yamasato (JMA) |
| 16:50 | Setsuya Nakada (University of Tokyo) |
| 17:20 | Chris Newhall (USGS) |
| 18:00-20:00 | Reception |
| Day-2 January 25 (Tue) Chairperson : Hajime Nakagawa (Kyoto Univ.) |
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| (Flood) | |
| 09:00 | Keiichi Toda (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 09:30 | Masayuki Maki (NIED) |
| 10:00 | Tatsuaki Nakato (Univ. of IOWA) |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break |
| (Landslide) | |
| 10:50 | Takahisa Mizuyama (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 11:20 | Masahiro Chigira (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 11:50 | Barry Voight (Pennsylvania State Univ.) |
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch Time |
| (Risk Management) | |
| 13:30 | Saburo Ikeda (NIED) |
| 14:00 | Norio Okada (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 14:30 | Ben Wisner (Oberlin College) |
| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee Break |
| (Introduction of Japanese Local Autonomy's activities) | |
| 15:20 | Kazuo Tanaka (Miyagi Prefecture) |
| 15:40 | Takahiro Sobue (Aichi Prefecture) |
| 16:00 | Katsunori Ishida (Hyogo Prefecture) |
| 16:20 | Closing Session |
| 17:00 | Closing Address (Mizuho Ishida) |
| 17:30 | Adjournment of the Symposium |
