Call for presentations: Workshop on Slow Earthquakes 2015 in Nagoya, Japan


Dear all,

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.

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 send a CV and a statement of interest to H. Hirose (hitoshi.hirose@ruby.kobe-u.ac.jp) if you want to apply)

Please submit title of your presentation at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kGIbzlmDm21OfFeScIIIQCTM5sWUgMpF7BydW9JjcZ4/viewform

Deadline for travel expense support applicants: August 7, 2015

Deadline for those who do not need a travel expense support: August 28, 2015

This workshop is supported by Cooperative Research Programs of ERI The University of Tokyo and DPRI Kyoto University.

For more information about this workshop, visit:

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

We look forward to your submission and seeing you in Nagoya,

Hitoshi Hirose, Yoshihiro Ito, Aitaro Kato, Kazushige Obara