Workshop announcement: “Slow Earthquake 2015”, Nagoya, September 24th-26th


Dear Colleagues:

We are going to have an international workshop on slow earthquakes on 24-26 September 2015 at the Higashiyama campus, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

In this workshop, we focus not only on the understanding of “slow earthquakes”, but also on the relationship between slow earthquakes and megathrust earthquakes. We welcome any topic related to slow earthquakes such as, observations, geological field surveys, laboratory experiments, numerical modeling, theoretical studies, and so on.

International invited speakers:

K. Creager (University of Washington)

Z. Peng (Georgia Institute of Technology )

H. Houston (University of Washington)

M. Ikari (MARUM, University of Bremen)

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/wssloweqs2015/

Date: 24-26 September, 2015

Venue: Environmental Studies Hall, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Registration fee: none

Support for travel expense for speakers: partial support available (not all of the requests will be accepted; please ask H. Hirose (hitoshi.hirose@ruby.kobe-u.ac.jp) for details)

Presentation Submission: June – August, 2015 (tentative)

Abstract submission deadline: September, 2015 (tentative)

Organizers: Hitoshi Hirose, Yoshihiro Ito, Aitaro Kato, Kazushige Obara

This workshop is supported by Joint Usage/Research Center Programs of ERI The University of Tokyo and DPRI Kyoto University
Yoshihiro Ito
DPRI, Kyoto University
Gokasyo, Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
Tel/Fax: +81-774-38-4240
ito.yoshihiro.4w@kyoto-u.ac.jp