ESG Workshop 2017

Organized by IASPEI ESG International Committee and JAEE ESG Committee

 Date: Saturday, August 5th, 2017

 Time: 13:00 - 17:45

 Venue: Kobe International House 8th Floor, Meeting Room 802&803

 Address:1-8 Gokodori, Chuo-ku, Kobe

In the occasion of the Joint Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy and the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IAG-IASPEI 2017) to be held in Kobe, Japan from July 30th to August 4th, the IASPEI ESG International Committee and the ESG Committee of the Japan Association of Earthquake Engineering (JAEE) will co-host the ESG Workshop 2017 to bring together researchers working on ESG related topics and discuss about the recent achievements on Saturday, August 5th in Kobe just after IAG-IASPEI 2017.

 Schedule as of August, 3rd, 2017:

• 13:00 - 13:05 Opening remarks
• Shinichi Matsushima (Kyoto University, Japan)
• 13:05 - 14:45 Presentations 1
• 13:05 Donat Fäh (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  "Site characterization as basic step for reliable quantification of site-effects in seismic hazard and risk assessment"
• 13:30 Hiroshi Kawase (Kyoto University, Japan)
  "Application of diffuse field concept to earthquake and microtremor HVRs: Direct evaluation of 1-D S-wave amplification factors without earthquake observation"
• 13:55 Jamison Steidl (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
  "Recent ESG activities in the United States"
• 14:20 Hiroaki Yamanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  "Recent activities of ESG research group in Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering"
• 14:45 - 14:55 Break 1
• 14:45 - 16:10 Presentations 2
• 14:55 Che-Min Lin (National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, Taiwan)
  "Comprehensive site database of TSMIP network in Taiwan"
• 15:20 Tomotaka Iwata (Kyoto University, Japan)
  "Near-source strong motions and source process of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake"
• 15:45 Hideo Aochi (BRGM, France)
  "On the near-field ground motion during the 2016 Central Italy earthquakes"
• 16:10 - 16:20 Break 2
• 16:20 - 17:10 Presentations 3
• 16:20 Seiji Tsuno (Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan)
  "Site specific issues arising from the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake"
• 16:45 Francisco J. Sánchez-Sesma (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
  "Understanding the seismic response of alluvial basins by means of analysis in the frequency-wavenumber (f-k) domain"
• 17:10 - 17:40 Discussions
• 17:40 - 17:45 Closing remarks
• Sadanori Higashi (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan)
• 18:00 - 20:00 Reception party
• @ Laputa the Flanders Tale
• 1,000yen/participant (except presenters)

 Prior to the workshop, the IASPEI ESG International Committee business meeting will be held from 10am to 11:30am of the same day at the same venue.

 Please download the PDF of the latest program of the workshop from here.