The meeting consists of plenary session with keynote addresses by prominent scientists in the field, and presentations of research findings and achievements.

Best poster recipients will be awarded with the DPRI, Kyoto University Excellent Presentation Award.  The ceremony will be held during the Closing Ceremony, on 22 February 2023 from 16:55 to 17:25h.

Pre-registration is not required. Please register at the Reception Desk at Uji Campus, Obaku Plaza, Kihada Hall Foyer on the day of the event.

The plenary sessions can be watched via YouTube live streaming.

Sponsored by: Disaster Prevention Research Association

• Program (for printing, A4)
• All session timetable (for printing, A3)

Refreshments will be served soon after the Closing Ceremony on 22 February 2023 from 17:45 – 18:30 h at the Hybrid Space, Oubaku Plaza.

Prof. Kenji Tanaka introduced the contents of the long-term observations that he has been carrying out since 2017 on three glaciers, and the contents of the summer school for students that will be held from 2021. Prime Minister Japarov highly appreciated the research and educational activities of his laboratory, and expressed his expectations for future collaboration with Kyoto University.

Program-Specific Associate Professor Yoshiya Toge and Sanjar Sadyrov (2nd year doctoral student, Department of Urban Social Engineering) attended the meeting on behalf of Professor Kenji Tanaka.

Program-Specific Associate Professor Yoshiya Toge greets Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan

Prime Minister Akylbek Japarov (center)

Introduction of Professor Kenji Tanaka’s education and research activities in Kyrgyzstan

State of the venue

Mr. Sanjar Sadyrov (2nd year doctoral student)

[Speaker]
Dr. Giuseppe Aliperti, Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Deusto (Spain) and visiting researcher at the Center of Tourism Research at the Wakayama University (Japan)
 

[Date]
Jan 12, 15:00-17:00
 

[Venue & Registration]
The seminar will be held in a hybrid manner both via Zoom and onsite. The venue is room 301 (Collaborative Research Hub, DPRI:連携研究棟) of Uji campus, Kyoto University.
 

Please register here by Jan 11 by noon.
https://forms.gle/iGMp2vCDWMHviMj3A
 

[Abstract]
Cross-generational studies in the context of risk communication has long been recognised as necessary and under-investigated. Our study aimed to fill this research gap. Based on the theory of Tourism Consumption Systems and the Generational Theory, American tourists’ intention to visit Japan has been analysed. We focussed on elements that may influence international tourists’ risk perception and destination choice during the emergency. A survey was conducted to obtain a representative sample of American individuals from Gen Y and Gen X. Structural equation modelling (SEM) and multi-group SEM were used to model the underlying structures and test the behavioural variations among groups. Findings reveal that Gen Y and Gen X have different behavioural patterns. Results highlight the prominent role of emotions for the former group and, in contrast with previous studies, of social influence for the latter. Behavioural similarities among tourists indicated certain predictability regarding their behaviours, which can help manage and control tourism flows after the COVID-19 pandemic. Managerial implications include a suggestion for risk communication to generate compensatory-approaches during the travel decision process of the two groups of tourists. The explorative nature of the study and the relatively small sample size means caution should be exercised when seeking to generalise the results. Further empirical studies can check whether the actual behaviours of Gen X and Gen Y tourists conform with the present study’s findings.

[Short bio]
Dr. Giuseppe Aliperti is a Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Deusto (Spain) and visiting researcher at the Center of Tourism Research at the Wakayama University (Japan). After completing his PhD at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy), he has been awarded the JSPS Fellowship. Former researcher at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, and visiting researcher at the United Nations University, his studies focus on risk communication and crisis/disaster management in the tourism industry. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0990-2791

[Speaker]
Dr. Jeong-Nam Kim, Professor, University of Oklahoma, United States
 

[Date]
Dec 2 (Fri), 15:30 – 17:00
 

[Venue & Registration]
The seminar will be held in a hybrid manner both via Zoom and onsite. The venue is room S-519D of Uji campus, Kyoto University.
 

Please register here by Dec 1 by noon.
https://forms.gle/LkMD9cPt9q4HFdfZA
 

[Abstract]
Information is a virtue. This assumption has been shaken, however, with the paradox in which a greater amount of information causes greater epistemic incapability among lay publics. In particular, public conspiracism has arisen as a social problem. Conspiratorial publics and their growing epistemic conviction of invalid conclusions result in social schisms, distrust, and doubt in legitimate social processes, all of which incur costs and risks to society. In this talk, I explain conspiratorial publics and the emerging processes of cognitive arrest and epistemic inertia in the digital age and changing information environment. I also discuss the relative effectiveness of counter strategies for lay publics arrested in conspiracism.

[Short bio]
Jeong-Nam Kim is the Gaylord Family Endowed Chair of Strategic Communication at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, at the University of Oklahoma. He serves as a senior editor of the journal “Health Communication,” and was elected as an educator member of the Arthur W. Page Society. Kim was awarded the Jackson Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Science Prize for his research from Public Relations Society of America. Kim investigates “public behavior” and its implications for social dynamics from a communication perspective. He has theorized on people’s communicative actions in individual life and in response to social problems. He applies theories, such as his Situational Theory of Problem Solving, to the fields of public relations, strategic communication, health communication, public diplomacy, corporate and government communication. He founded the Debiasing and Lay Informatics (DaLI) lab, and is currently working to conceptualize the communicative-cognitive interface of publics in personal and social problems. His work identifies both opportunities and challenges generated by lay publics and how their communicative actions either contribute to or detract from a civil society.

 
[Speaker]

Dr. Chuanbin Zhu

Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Sophisticated Earthquake Risk Evaluation (Hanshin Consultants) Division, DPRI, Kyoto University

 
[Date]
August 25 (Thur), 15:00 – 16:30
 
[Venue & Registration]
The seminar will be held in a hybrid manner both via Zoom and onsite. The venue is room S-519D of Uji campus, Kyoto University.
 
Please register here by August 23.
https://forms.gle/YivR75RtuoXqb1rL8
 
[Abstract]
When an earthquake occurs, a part of the energy stored in the Earth is released in the form of seismic waves that originate from the source, and the seismic waves pass through the earth. When they reach the Earth’s surface, the ground shakes. The intensity of ground shaking at a location is dependent on the surface and subsurface geological/physical/geotechnical conditions at the observation site. The impact of these geo-conditions on ground motions is referred to as “site effects”, “site amplification” or “site response”. The accurate characterization of site effects is crucial in the estimation of ground shaking from future earthquakes which our buildings or infrastructures of interest is designed to resist.
How well can we model site effects? This depends on the quantity and quality of information available. Often, due to time or budgetary constraints, we have to “play the cards we are dealt”, namely using the information we have in order to characterize site effects. Then it boils down to the question how well we can capitalize on the various information at hand, using physics-based modelling, machine learning, and classic parametric models? I dedicate this talk to addressing this question, especially the methods based on the machine learning where up-to-date techniques are applied to the densely-observed strong-motion data in Japan.
 
[Short bio]
Dr. Chuanbin Zhu is a Program-Specific Assistant Professor, DPRI, Kyoto University. Prior to joining DPRI, he worked as a Research Fellow and then Senior Research Fellow at the Helmholtz Center Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany. Dr. Zhu obtained his Ph.D. degree in earthquake engineering at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, after his undergraduate and graduate studies in China. Dr. Zhu has delivered more than 20 journal articles in GJI, BSSA, Earthq. Spectra, BEE, SDEE, JEE, etc. He has won the “Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award”, and served as a leading session convener and co-convener at the Seismological Society of America Annual Meetings in 2021 and 2022, and the 38th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission, as well as the Leading Topic Editor of ESCI journal Frontiers in Built Environment.

[Title]
Perspectives on Multi-facet Impacts of Global Warming to the Hydrosphere and Cryosphere
 

[Speaker]
Professor Thian Yew Gan, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Lead Author, AR6-WGI, Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)
Research Ambassador, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
LEWI Fellow, Hong Kong Baptist University
 

[Date]
July 28 (Thur), 15:00 – 16:30
 

[Venue & Registration]
The seminar will be held in a hybrid manner both via Zoom and onsite. The venue is room S-519D of Uji campus, Kyoto University.
 

Please register here by July 26.
https://forms.gle/JrR52V3U2yNVQ78B7
 

[Abstract & bio]
Please find this document.

[Date]
July 1 (Fri) 15:30-17:00
 

[Venue & Registration]
The seminar will be held in a hybrid manner both via Zoom and onsite. The venue is room S-519D of Uji campus, Kyoto University.
 
Please register here by June 29.
https://forms.gle/mBjrsBREN39Rdybc6

 
[Abstract]
私は、感情・意識・物語・民族性といった人間が歴史の中で行為や文法などの形で蓄えてきた日本の美を、デジタル映像で表現し、心で感じる「カルチュラル・コンピューティング」を提唱し、作品制作、研究を行っている。近年では、Invisible Beautyをテーマにハイスピードカメラを使い、現代の先端技術でしか見えない映像表現にも取り組み、その成果をアートイノベーションという形で、産業や社会に貢献している。さらに昨年度から、パラボリックフライトを実施し、微小重力を使ったZero Gravity Artの可能性を研究している。この研究と防災とのコラボレーションで何ができそうか、ディスカッションしたい。The detail is here.
 

[Short bio]
マサチューセッツ工科大学建築学部Center for Visual Studeis でArtist Fellow終了後、2005年より京都大学特定教授。ニューヨーク近代美術館、メトロポリタン美術館での招待展示をはじめ、賞歴は、「インタラクティブポエム」でロレアル大賞受賞（1997年）、ユネスコデジタル無形遺産２位受賞コンピュータによる山水禅「ZEN Computer」（2004年）、2012年韓国麗水万博で350m x 30mのメインストリートのLEDスクリーンに龍を泳がせ功労賞受賞、プロジェクションマッピング [サウンドオブ生け花]グッドデザイン賞受賞（2014年）など。京都府事業：琳派400年記念プロジェクションマッピング土佐琳派を実施。近年では、2016年文化庁文化交流使として、ニューヨークタイムススクエア60台以上のビルボードで [サウンドオブ生け花（春）]を毎夜１ヶ月間放映し、文化交流を行った。作品は、京都建仁寺、ニューヨーク近代美術館、国立国際美術館、富山県立近代美術館、名古屋県立美術館、高松市立美術館などで収蔵されている。

The seminar will be held in a hybrid manner both via Zoom and onsite. The venue is room S-519D of Uji campus, Kyoto University.

11:20 – 11:30
Closing remarks (Dr. Masamitsu Onishi, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University), Closing
 

Acknowledgement: This seminar was supported by the Kansai Research Foundation for Technology Promotion.

Considering the current global pandemic and the spread of the new corona virus variant, unfortunately, the DPRI Annual Meeting 2022 will be held online.

Use the following links to attend the meeting online:

• First day Plenary Sessions:Opening remarks and Special Lectures; and Day two Special Lectures (2), Disaster Report, Technical Report, Ceremony for the Best Student Presentation Award, and Closing Remarks- YouTube
• Parallel Sessions will be held via Zoom
  

• For all other information: https://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/hapyo/22/ 

We thank you in advance for your cooperation.

[Registration]
Seminar will be held online via Zoom. Please register below by 1:00 pm, November 18.
 

Registration form：https://forms.gle/miKzzB1jiFcTBfh46
 

[Title]
Multi-voiced and Multi-angle Reality of Disaster Risk Reduction Action Research
―Perspective of Chained Visual Ethnography
 

[Speaker]
Assistant Prof. Genta NAKANO (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
 

[Abstract]
Disaster risk reduction action research involves various stakeholders such as researchers, government officers, community people, teachers and students. Stakeholders collaboratively carry out the action research, for example, making community plans, evacuation drills and educational activities. Since all the stakeholders are proactively involved in the action research, each stakeholder has their own way of looking/analyzing the action research progress and outcomes. In other words, a researcher has his/her own way of looking at the action research while community people have their own way of looking at the action research, thus there exists a multi-voiced and multi-angle reality of action research. However, evaluation of action research often reflects only the voice of researchers and is published in the form of academic paper and/or book chapters. The multi-voiced and multi-angle reality of action research remains as researcher’s single-voice and single angle.
This presentation aims to propose chained visual ethnography of action research that depicts multi-voiced and a multi-angle reality. The visual ethnography (VE) that reflected the author’s reality was developed based on the disaster risk reduction practices in Mexico. The VE was viewed with the action research participants and their comment videos were developed. Thus, the multi-voiced and multi-angle reality of the practices from the standpoint of the researchers and the participants are visualized. The VE and videos are posted on a website to stimulate advanced practices which lead to further VE and comment videos as chained visual ethnography.

 
[Date]
15:00-16:30, October 1 Fri.
 

[Registration]
Seminars will be held online. If you would like to participate, please register below by 1:00 pm on September 30th. I will send you a Zoom address during September 30th.
 

Registration form：https://forms.gle/zvhhnabuv8ibYLFL9

 
[Title]
A connector for ‘all of society engagement’: revisiting the case of Kuroshio Town
「全社会による取組」に必要な繋ぎ：黒潮町の事例を再考察する
 

[Speaker]
Assoc. Prof. Kaori KITAGAWA (Department of Education, Practice and Society, Institute of Education, University College London (UCL))
 

[Abstract]
This seminar reconsiders the disaster risk management (DRM) for Nankai Trough Earthquake and Tsunami undertaken in Kuroshio Town. The focus is on the notion of a ‘connector’ required in ‘all of society engagement’ approaches. Applying whole-system thinking, the seminar suggests that the meso-level of their DRM system functions as the connector, yielding relationships, learning and collaboration. eveloping connectors has an implication for integrated DRM.

[Date]
15:00-16:30　Aug 6, 2021
 
[Registration]
Please kindly register from the link by 1:00pm on Aug 5. The Zoom address will be sent to your email address on Aug 5 in the afternoon.
 
Registration form：
https://forms.gle/8CKzF3Y1vcF9VewU6

 
[Title]
Mobilizing a Collaborative Community for Probabilistic Hazard Information

 
[Guest Lecturer]
Associate professor Hamilton Bean, Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver (Visiting prof. of DRS-DPRI)
 
[Abstract]
For the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), developments in Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI) and mobile public alert and warning technology create new challenges and opportunities for improving public understanding and response to severe weather warnings. On one hand, NWS intends to eventually communicate PHI-enhanced warnings for tornados that include indicators of lower forecast confidence and higher uncertainty. On the other hand, we know from decades of social science research concerning public alert and warning that protective action compliance improves when warning messages are specific, consistent, confident, clear, and accurate. The “Mobilizing a Collaborative Community for Probabilistic Hazard Information” project (“MCC-PHI”) therefore provides social science evidence for how to manage this tension. Making weather warning more effective has not only to do with improved PHI and related forecast capabilities among technical experts, but also with translating PHI in ways that demonstrably improve public sensemaking and response. In this lecture, major uncertainties generated by the emerging PHI paradigm for weather warning are discussed, and community collaboration is proposed to further investigate these issues.
 
[Short bio]
Hamilton Bean, Ph.D., MBA, APR, is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He also serves as Director of the University of Colorado Denver’s International Studies Program. He specializes in the study of communication and security. He was part of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security-funded research team that investigated the optimization of Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) messages for imminent threats. His research has been cited by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in rulemakings that govern the use of the WEA system. He has earned funding from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership to study mobile public alert and warning in the United States and internationally. He is Associate Editor for Natural Hazards Review, and his research has been published in numerous international academic journals and edited volumes. His latest book is Mobile Technology and the Transformation of Public Alert and Warning (Praeger Security International, 2019). He returns to DPRI this summer as a Visiting Professor after having served as a Guest Researcher in 2019.

[Date]
7月2日（金）15時～16時30分
15:00-16:30, July 2nd
 
[Registration]
Seminars will be held online. If you would like to participate, please register below by 1:00 pm on July 1st. We will send you a Zoom address during July 1st.

 
Registration form：
https://forms.gle/aHx8dx7DvoyhdJSr5

 
[Title]
地域復興と協働のエスノグラフィー
―長期密着型のフィールドワークから―

 
[Speaker]
山 泰幸　教授（関西学院大学人間福祉学部）
https://www.kwansei.ac.jp/s_hws/s_hws_000505.html　
 
[Abstract]
　東日本大震災以降、被災者や被災地を支援し、エンパワメントする有効な手法との認識のもとに、被災者・関係者との「協働のエスノグラフィー」の挑戦的試みが行われるようになっている。協働のエスノグラフィーという研究手法は、人口減少・ 少子高齢化、過疎化が進行している地域における地域復興やまちづくりの実践においても有効であると考えられる。 報告者は、徳島県西部の過疎地域において、現地の役場職員や住民有志と「協働」しながら、一方では、地域復興・まちづくりの活動に外部支援者として実践的に関与し、他方では、エスノグラフィックな調査研究の一環として、十数年にわたる長期密着型のフィールドワークを続けてきた。
　この報告では、報告者が、いかにして現地住民や関係者との「協働」を行ってきたのか、その取り組みの一端を紹介することで、「協働」はなぜ必要であり、どのような意義や効果があるのか、また「協働」とはそもそも何であり、それはいかにして可能になるのかなどについて考えてみたい。そのうえで、地域復興やまちづくりの活動において、研究者のような外部支援者が果たすべき役割について、反省的に検討したい。

[Date]
15:00-16:30, June 4 Fri.

 
[Registration]
Seminars will be held online. If you would like to participate, please register below by 1:00 pm on June 3rd. We will send you a Zoom address during June 3rd.

(Registration form)：
https://forms.gle/nkE5scMTrUFNPAc2A

 
[Title]
不確実性下の意思決定モデルの発展と防災・減災への応用－合理主義から自然主義への潮流のなかで－
Decision models under uncertainty and their application for disaster
mitigation: In the trend from rationalism towards naturalism

 
[Speaker]
藤見俊夫　准教授　（京都大学防災研究所）
Assoc. Prof. Toshio FUJIMI (DPRI Kyoto Univ.)
 
[Abstract]
人の判断・行動モデル研究における大きな潮流の一つとして、信念や選好など志向的概念によって人の意思決定を説明する「合理主義」から、人間を他の動物の延長線上に位置づけ、神経ネットワークや進化適応などから自然科学的に説明する「自然主義」へと基盤的枠組みの軸足が移りつつあります。本セミナーでは、不確実性の意思決定に焦点を当てて、完全合理性の意思決定モデルから限定合理性（心の二重過程理論）に基づく意思決定モデルまで紹介することで、そうしたトレンドについて説明します。さらに、防災・減災の文脈における具体的な研究事例として、不確実性下の意思決定モデルを用いて災害リスク軽減政策を経済評価した研究や、「自然主義」の観点から防災・減災行動促進政策の立案・評価を試みた研究を紹介します。

[Date]
15:00-17:00, May 7, 2021

 
[Registration]
Please kindly register from the below link by 1:00pm May 6. The Zoom address will be sent to your email address on May 6 in the afternoon.

(Registration form)：https://forms.gle/yU2U7nHAJatcZMfM8

 
[Title]
Narrative Signals of Systemic Risk in the Noise of Media

 
[Guest Lecturer]
Prof. Ilan Chabay, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany (Visiting prof. of DRS-DPRI)
 
[Abstract]
We are witnessing profound changes in the complex, interdependent social-environmental system. These changes that have their origin in human activities, impose potentially catastrophic systemic risks, including pandemics, climate change, wealth inequality, and food insecurity. To sustain at least adequate, just, and equitable living conditions, human societies must continually innovate, learn and adapt. Societies need to engage their people in changing to new, more sustainable patterns of behavior that support the well-being of all.
I will present preliminary studies on narratives, particularly those in digital media, and how they provide data for understanding how certain systemic risks related to sustainability are perceived and are promoted or opposed. A deeply interdisciplinary approach that brings together natural science, engineering, design, social science, art and humanities has been an essential part of our process of developing concepts and interpreting data from narratives to yield new insights into changing collective behaviors to sustainable futures in the contexts and cultures of our world.
 
Short bio: Ilan Chabay currently is spending January through May 2021 as visiting professor at Kyoto University in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute. He has recently been appointed Chair of the External Research Evaluation Committee of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (chikyu-ken), Kyoto for 2021-2023.
At the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam Germany, Ilan is Head of Strategic Science Initiatives and Scientific Project Leader of the Global Sustainability Strategy Forum and the KLASICA (Knowledge, Learning, and Societal Change) projects. He has been at IASS since 2012. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Global Futures Lab of Arizona State University.
Ilan’s first career was as research scientist and professor in laser physics and chemistry at US National Institutes of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland and at Stanford University in California. He became associate director of The Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco, then founder and for 18 years president of an innovative company in Silicon Valley designing and producing interactive exhibitions for 230 museums around the world, including Disney, Smithsonian, and NASA. His current career in social science began in 2006 as Hasselblad Professor in the sociology and applied IT departments at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University in Sweden, before he came to IASS in 2012. In addition to his research and more than 80 publications in both natural and social sciences, he continues to design games to engage and inspire people with authentic processes of scientific inquiry that enhance understanding, agency and commitment for moving to just and equitable sustainable futures.

Currently, we are in the preparation stage and further details of the ceremony and other related events will be posted on [Official site] as and when the information is available. We will also notify you from time to time through our mailing list.
 

[Date]
15:00-16:30, April 16 Fri.

 
[Registration]
Seminars will be held online. If you would like to participate, please register below by 1:00 pm on April 15th. We will send you a Zoom address during April 15th.
 
Registration form：https://forms.gle/fnmqySmEfxQiXduK9
 
[Title]
洪水予測に関する最近の動向と日本全国の河川を対象にした研究
Recent trends of flood forecasting and the development of a system
covering all rivers in Japan
 
[Speaker]
佐山敬洋　准教授　（京都大学防災研究所）
Assoc. Prof. Takahiro SAYAMA (DPRI Kyoto Univ.)
 
[Abstract]
流域治水と気候変動適応をキーワードに、水災害に関する防災技術政策は大きな変革が進んでいます。それに伴い、リアルタイムの洪水予測と水災害リスク評価も、求められる情報の質と精度がより高度化しています。洪水予測については、中小河川も含めた高分解能性、不確実性情報も含めた予測の長時間化、全国を俯瞰するような広域性といったように技術的要求が高まり、民間や研究機関の先端技術を活用する議論も始まっています。また、洪水リスク評価については、現在と将来の河川整備状況や気候変動の影響を加味したうえで、浸水深とその発生確率を地先レベルで推定することが流域治水の実践に向けて不可欠です。本講演では、洪水予測とリスク評価に関する国内の動向を概観するとともに、内閣府戦略的イノベーション創造プログラム（SIP）で現在進めている全国を対象にした広域洪水予測システムの開発に関する研究を紹介します。

Date：15:00-16:30, Mar. 5
Venue：Zoom

 
Registration:The seminar will be held via Zoom. Please kindly register your e-mail address from the following link by 1:00pm Mar 4. The Zoom address will be sent to your email address on Mar 4 in the afternoon.
 
Registration form:https://forms.gle/pczEtbTv1T9U9cxF8

 
[Language]
Japanese (Presentation material will be prepared in English)

[Title]
経時的データ分析における時間を考慮した特徴の抽出と視覚化：テキスト解析入門
(about the introduction of text data analysis: visualization and extraction of characteristics of longitudinal data analysis)
 

[Speaker]
和泉志津恵　教授（滋賀大学データサイエンス学部／京都大学防災研究所巨大災害研究センター非常勤講師）
Prof. Shizue Izumi (Shiga University Faculty of Data science)
　 
[講演概要]
　データサイエンスは、複数の組み合わせたデータを分析し、その結果に基づき新たな価値を創造する学問です。
本講演では、経時的に収集されたテキストデータを統計的に分析する方法の概要について解説します。
加えて、統計的モデルや分類法を組み合わせた解析事例を紹介します。
キーワード：セミパラメトリックモデル、変化係数、k-means法、距離行列、多次元尺度法

[講演者の専門分野]
　広島大学 大学院医学系研究科 博士課程修了。専門は統計科学、統計教育。
　医療、交通、行政、災害のデータを中心に、時空間情報を活用した統計的データ分析方法の研究や教育を行なっている。

Date: 25 Sep, 2020
Time: 16:00-17:30
 

Lecture type: ONLINE via zoom
Registration form : https://forms.gle/hiy64YQe3HMfQSAq6
The Zoom address will be sent to your e-mail address on Sep 24.
 
Guest Lecturer: Dr. LIN Lexin  (DPRI,JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow)
Lecture title: Communicating Natech Risks to the Public: A study of public risk perception, risk information disclosure and trust in Japan
 

Abstract: Past experiences have suggested that the more people are aware of potential disaster risks, the more prepared they are likely to be, and the less likely that they will be taken by surprise when disasters occur. In practice, governments or industries, who own such risk information, are often reluctant to disclose it to the public, worrying that it might cause panic or fall into the wrong hands thus endanger the society. However, the danger of being over-protective with regard to risk information is that secrecy can lead to a false illusion of safety, which can be disastrous while facing a fast-developing disaster. This study draws upon the Japanese context, where citizens are threatened by natural hazard-triggered technological accidents (Natech), but are not provided with sufficient and timely information to prepare and/ or respond. Two rounds of surveys were conducted with households located in the Osaka Bay and Tokyo Bay areas. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with representatives from governments and communities in various areas of Japan. By investigating the current status of Natech risk information disclosure, understanding government’s and public’s risk perception and their mutual trust in Natech risk management, this study seeks to identify: 1) citizens’ demands for risk information when faced with threats; 2) the amount of sensitive risk information that government is willing to disclose, in order to help citizens to prepare for, and respond to, potential threats.
 
Short bio: Dr. Lexin Lin is a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University. Dr. Lin completed her PhD at the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Sweden. She holds two Masters’ degrees: an MA in Mass Communication from Fudan University, China, and an MSc in Strategic Public Relations from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.
Rooted in real-world disaster risk management systems and their practice, Dr. Lin’s research integrates the fields of risk communication and risk assessment, and actively involves stakeholders with multi-disciplinary backgrounds from the whole-of-government and all-of-society, to reduce disaster risks and increase the resilience of our societies.

 
Lecture type:
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Language: English
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Giuseppe Alipert (DPRI, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow)
 
Lecture title: Being a researcher of tourism and disaster management in times of COVID-19: An overview on our contributions pre- and during the outbreak.
Abstract: This seminar includes the presentation the last 2 studies that Giuseppe has conducted since October 2019 to support tourism disaster management in Japan. His previous work at DPRI (2018/2019) focused on tourists’ risk perception and on the perspective of tourism suppliers, government, and academia regarding natural hazard risk communication to tourists in Japan. The output included two papers published by Annals of Tourism Research and Tourism Management Perspectives. During the last 10 months he enriched this discussion, taking into consideration the new scenario caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. In particular, in collaboration with Prof. Ana Maria Cruz, he completed two papers entitled:
 
1) Promoting built-for-disaster-purpose mobile applications: An interdisciplinary literature review to increase their penetration rate among tourists (accepted by the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management and soon online);
 
2) Supporting the tourism sector’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-generational perspective (under review).
During this seminar, Giuseppe will summarize the main findings of these contributions. The first study focuses on the promotion and use of tourist-oriented built-for-disaster-purpose mobile applications. We systematically reviewed interdisciplinary academic contributions to analyze research on apps-users’ intention to adopt mobile applications. Findings suggest opportunities for future tourism-oriented studies aiming at increasing the number of users of built-for-disasters mobile applications. In particular, we provided a research agenda taking into consideration the geographical spread of the studies, the used research techniques, and the adopted theories. In the second study, we focused on the elements that may influence the risk perception of international tourists and influence their destination-choice. This study contributes to the theory by identifying behavioral similarities and differences across generations among American tourists. Referring to the theory of Tourism Consumption Systems and the Generational Theory, we measured American tourists’ intention to visit Japan after the COVID-19 emergency. The identification of behavioral similarities among travelers has been used to provide some predictability in behavior, useful to manage and control tourism flows after the COVID-19 emergency.
 
Short bio: Dr. Giuseppe Aliperti has several years of international working experience in the tourism industry. He is currently a JSPS Postdoctoral research fellow since 2018 at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University. After completing his PhD at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy), he was a former visiting short-term JSPS research fellow at DPRI, and a visiting scientist at the United Nations University. His research interest focuses on tourism and disaster risk management. Starting from September 2020, he will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Deusto (Spain).

Date: 15:00-17:00, July 3 (Fri), 2020
 

Registration: The seminar will be held via Zoom. Please kindly register your e-mail address from the following link by July 1. The Zoom address will be sent to your email address on July 2.
 

https://forms.gle/EtHU592Dd3jD9UEp9

Language: English
Speaker:Prof. Chiung-wen Julia HSU, College of Communication, National Chengchi University, Taiwan（國立政治大學傳播學院・京都大学防災研究所巨大災害研究センター客員教授）
 

Title “Living with it: Our Daily Life in the Post-COVID 19 Era in Taiwan.”
 

The abstract:
Taiwan was predicted to be one of the countries most affected by the Coronavirus due to its proximity to China and frequent interactions between the two ones. Because of the painful lessons from SARS in 2003, the Taiwan government and people have high alert early on. In addition, the democratic mechanism ensures transparency and honesty, with which Taiwan has implemented prevention measures in fighting disease successfully. Until 6/17, infection with COVID-19 was laboratory-confirmed in 445 cases in Taiwan, 354 imported and 55 indigenous. Of the confirmed cases, there have been 7 deaths. On 6/7, the restrictions of social distancing have been lifted and Taiwan is now entering the post-COVID19 era. This presentation will introduce the rapid responses of the government, community, and citizens as well as the life after loosening the restrictions. The implications of disaster risk reduction will be also provided.
 
Dr. Julia Chiung-wen HSU
Hsu is a professor at National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan. Hsu earned her Ph.D. degree in communication at SUNY-Buffalo in 2003. As a former TV journalist with the China Television Company, Hsu covered many earthquakes, typhoons, and traumatic accidents. Thus, her research interests span broadcasting journalism, trauma and journalism, disaster and communication interdisciplinary study. Dr. Hsu has published journal articles in Natural Hazards, Disaster Prevention and Management, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, Hermes, Online Information Review, Mass Communication Research, etc. She is also awarded several fellowships, including Fulbright Senior Scholar, Japanese Studies Fellowship from Japan Foundation, Dart Academic Fellowship from Columbia University, and Research Fellowship, from Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo. Professor Hsu’s efforts do not focus on academic research only. She participates in community work with her research findings and puts the theory into practice.

5th Global Summit of GADRI: Engaging Science with Action

The 5th Global Summit of GADRI will take place virtually from 31st August to 1 September 2021.

The GADRI 2021 conference aims at stock taking of progress in DRR research from its Members towards targets of the Sendai Science and Technology Roadmap. The programme will communicate academic science across scientific disciplines to policy makers and practitioners. It is an important aspect for academics to be aware how science can directly contribute to national and local disasters, for example, a dam break or an epidemic outbreak, etc. Such situations prompt scientists’ interventions, expertise, and experience and to share them with emergency managers in crisis situations.

The biennial Global Summit Series was initiated by the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Kyoto Japan with the first Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction session held in November 2011 during the same year a triple disaster – Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami devastated Japan in March 2011.

Place：
Room S-519D, main building, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Uji
Campus
 
Speaker:
Dr. Hamilton Bean
Associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of
Colorado Denver
 
Title: “Does Japan Have a Problem with Mobile Public Alert and Warning?”
 
Abstract:
Recent events in the United States have vaulted the issue of mobile public
alert and warning into the headlines. A false ballistic missile alert in
Hawaii in 2018, the absence of mobile messages during the devastating 2017
and 2018 wildfire seasons in California, and public confusion about the use
of new systems and technologies have led to changes in public policy and
organizational practice. This project therefore examines whether Japan also
has a problem with mobile public alert and warning. If so, is the problem
similar to or different from those that have confronted the United States
and other countries? If not, what does Japan do differently that allows it
to avoid such problems? The presentation discusses evidence for and against
the existence of a problem, charting a way forward for further
investigation and improved mobile public alert and warning globally.
 
About Prof. Hamilton Bean:
Hamilton Bean, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of
Communication at the University of Colorado Denver specializing in
organizational communication. He is also the Director of the International
Studies Program. His research intersects the fields of organizational
discourse and security. From 2001 to 2005, he served in management
positions for a Washington, DC-based provider of analytical support
services to U.S. and international clients in government and industry.
Since 2005, he has been affiliated with the National Consortium for the
Study or Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) – a U.S. Department
of Homeland Security Center of Excellence based at the University of
Maryland. His research has been published in Rhetoric & Public Affairs,
Intelligence and National Security, International Communication Gazette,
Southern Communication Journal, Homeland Security Affairs, Journal of
Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and the International Journal
of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. He has won awards for scholarship
from the National Communication Association and the Western States
Communication Association. He earned the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Annual Award for Excellence in Service and Leadership in 2017 and the
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Annual Award for Excellence in Research
and Creative Activities in 2018. He is currently a guest professor at the
Center for Disaster Reduction System at DPRI, Kyoto University.

For further details, please contact Prof. Nakakita.

• 土木学会 水工学委員会
• 京都大学IPCCウィークス2019

Date and Time： September 14, 17:00-18:30
Room ： Large Seminar Room of Collaborative Research Hub, DPRI, Uji campus, Kyoto University
Lecturer： Professor James Goltz (Visiting Professor, DRS-DPRI, Kyoto University)
Title： Using Citizen Science to Analyze Behavioral Response to Large Earthquakes: A Study Based on Data from the USGS “Did you feel it?” System

Program in Japanese

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Speaker: Professor Donghan Chang (Konkou University, Korea)

Title: Integrated Management of Disaster Risks

1. April 26(Thu) 15:00~16:30 E-517D Seminar room III
2. May 10(Thu) 15:00~16:30 E-517D Seminar room III
3. May 17(Thu) 15:00~16:30 E-517D Seminar room III
4. May 24(Thu) 15:00~16:30 E-517D Seminar room III
5. May 31(Thu) 15:00~16:30 E-517D Seminar room III
6. June 6 (Wed) 15:00~16:30 S-207D International seminar room

Venue：Uji Campus Main Bldg. E-517D and S-207D
Note：

Basic Seismology for Seismic Hazard Analysis

1. Plate tectonics
2. Fault physics
3. Earthquake magnitude and statistics
4. Seismic waves
5. Strong motion on rock
6. Synthetic seismograms

*Please note that only for the last day (6/6) the day of the week and the meeting room are different.

Venue: DPRI, Kyoto University, Uji Campus (S-519 D)
Date: 28 February 2018　15:30 – 17:00
 

LECTURE:
“Learning from the past: A historical approach for better resilience?”
SPEAKER:
Emmanuel Garnier, PhD, CNRS Director of Research, Research Professor, University of Besancon, France
 

ABSTRACT:
In the aftermath of a new disaster, it is usual in the West to affirm the novelty of such an extreme event. Thus, catastrophe would be a new phenomenon and, consequently, our societies and their governments would be condemned to adapt by promoting new strategies and policies.
The presentation will demonstrate the value of a historical approach to better understanding and preventing disasters. Initially, we will give concrete examples of collaborations with public and private companies in France in the fields of nuclear and insurance. In the second part, we will focus on methods for using historical data in order to improve the statistical knowledge of risks in terms of frequency and intensity, but also to estimate the cost of a historical event today (Paris flood in 1910 v 2017). Finally, we will show how by maintaining knowledge of the risks experienced in the past, current societies and their elected representatives can better anticipate human occupation errors.
 
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Prof. Emmanuel Garnier is CNRS Director of Research and Research Professor at University of Besancon, and Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research focuses on the history of extreme events (climate, health, seismology and geology) and disasters over the past 500 years. In addition to their frequency and intensity, these historical hazards are explored as indicators of social vulnerabilities and to determine adaptation strategies.
 
Prof. Garnier uses a wide range of historical sources in Europe, China, Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. Dr. Garnier investigates written records as well as all kinds of images, paintings, and so on, that capture historical extreme events and their impacts. Thanks to these historical records he takes part in multi-disciplinary French and international projects to strengthen and improve climate, hydro meteorological or seismic models. In the case of hurricanes and floods, historical series can considerably reduce the return periods ? the number of years between two extreme events- calculated by models. Prof. Garnier has published extensively, and with his collaborators established a historical database of extreme events in France (http://www.unicaen.fr/histclime/).

Roundtable for Risk and Uncertainty: Comparative Schemes for Risk Communication in Japan and United States
 

Speakers:
James Goltz (Former Branch Chief of the California Office Of Emergency Services / DPRI Visiting Professor)
Manabu Hashimoto (DPRI Professor)
Steven Brantley (U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory)
 

Discussant:
Ana Maria (DPRI Professor)
 

Moderator:
Mika Shimizu (GSS Associate Professor)
 

Date: March 6, 2018 15:00-16:30
Venue: Shishukan Hall (Kyoto University HIGASHI ICHIJOKAN, basement floor)
 

Note: Open to Students and Faculties in Any School
 

[Summary]
Today’s modern risk society is increasingly complex, uncertain and interconnected. One of the key policy measures in addressing the modern risk society is risk information disclosure and communication which correlates with substantial risk reduction. Risk communication is not a one time or technical issue, but an overarching, multidisciplinary, national to global issue.
It is recognized that there are different cases where disaster risk information is not disclosed to the public for several reasons including: (a) information is not available, (b) information is incomplete or (c) information has a high level of uncertainties. The non-disclosure of risk information and/or inappropriate risk communication often results in tragic disaster consequences. Specifically it is to note that the issue of “uncertainty” of risk is a major barrier to risk information disclosure and communication among government, communities, industry and other stakeholders including the public, although the reasons vary depending on disaster risks and situations.
Given the above common understanding, interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners beyond individual research disciplines will come together in this seminar to seek for how to address risk and uncertainty issues through schemes of risk communication. Especially with the focus on earthquake and volcano risk cases, the speakers will:
 

1) comparatively share relevant schemes, including current policies, systems and related processes with specific cases (lecture/presentation),
2) discuss about challenges or good practices and better schemes of risk communication for better understandings of uncertainties and disaster preparedness among multi-stakeholders (roundtable discussions).
 

This seminar is made possible as a part of collaborative efforts among researchers and practitioners for risk communication research in Japan and the United States who have been in collaborations for the past years. Please join in our collaborative efforts in better risk communication regardless of your discipline.
 

[Active type] Lecture/ Discussion
 

[Obligation of attendee]
Active participation in discussion

8:30-9:00
　Registration
9:00-9:10
　Welcome and introduction
　　Ana Maria Cruz
 
Session 1. Part 1.
Risk communication and uncertainties: The case of volcanic hazards
Chair: Masamitsu Onishi
9:10-10:10
　Volcano predictions and evacuation from two case studies
　　Jim Mori, Kyoto University (TBC)
　Discussion
 
10:10-10:30 Coffee break
 
Session 1. Part 2.
Chair: Ana Maria Cruz
 
10:30-11:00
　Disaster Planning and Risk Communication with a Small
　Community in a Volcanic Island: Lessons from the 2015
　Kuchinoerabujima Volcano Eruption.
　　Mayumi Sakamoto, University of Hyogo
 
11:00-11:30
　A methodology for normative decision making on
　evacuation order from volcDnic disasters with the
　consideration of unforeseen risks
　　Masamitsu Onishi, Kyoto University
 
11:30-12:00
　Mt. Sakurajima: Uncertainties and Risk Communication for
　Short- and Long-term Hazards
　　Alexandros Poulidis, Kyoto University
 
12:00-12:10 Break
 
Session 2. Panel Discussion
Uncertainties in earthquake prediction and forecasting
Moderator and chair: Mika Shimizu
12:10 -12:50
　Introduction: Setting the stage
　　Mika Shimizu
　　Panelists:
　　James Goltz, Manabu Hashimoto, Masumi Yamada,
　　Jim Mori, Hirokazu Tatano
 
12:50-13:00 Wrap-up and closing
 

For questions and to confirm your participation please email Ms. Marina Hamidzada at:marina.hamidzada.42x[at]st.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Title: Cultural theory to risk- and disaster management
 

Abstract: Dr. Bernhardsdottir will discuss her research on the relationship between cultural values and decision-makers’ approach to risk- and disaster management. Her research shows that decision-makers’ cultural values influence the way in which they perceive various risks and how they process risk information.

Lecture two
Speaker: Dr. Hideyuki Shiroshita
 

Title: How can we recognize a black swan as a special bird? :The importance of co-learning for DRR
 

Abstract: The 2011 Tohoku earthquake was described as an unimaginable event. After the disaster, it has been pointed out that preparedness for unimaginable events is important. However, it is impossible to find any unimaginable events before it happens if the events are unimaginable for all people. Rather, the situations that some people think it is an unimaginable event but others do not think so should be avoided. In other words, the situations some people see a black swan, but they do not recognize it as a special one should be prevented. In this talk, a solution of this issue will be proposed from pedagogical perspective.

*Target：College students, researchers
*Reservation is not needed

Title：Earthquake and Tsunami Education for Conceptual and Behavioral
Change: Applying Theory and Developing Practice

Speaker1：Prof. Irasema Alcantara Ayala (Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, DPRI / Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Title：Civil Protection in Mexico: a brief history and challenges ahead
 
Speaker2：Prof. Liping Fang (Research Division of Disaster Management for Safe and Secure Society, DPRI / Ryerson Univ.)
Title：Risk Management of Extreme Events: A System of Systems
Engineering Methodology

Speaker: Prof. Pavel Kabat, Director General, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) based in Laxemburg, Austria. (Short bio)

Day 1 ：(March 27th, 2017) 13:00-17:30

13:00 Opening address and introduction of the project and the symposium
13:10 Progress report for FY2016
– Seung Han LEE (Program-Specific Researcher, DPRI, Kyoto University, Japan)
Issues and challenges in risk evaluation and its uncertainty reduction at Osaka and Kochi prefectures against Nankai trough earthquakes
14:10 Invited presentation
– Philippe GUÉGUEN (Senior Researcher, Insitut des Sciences de la Terre, France)
Urban Seismology: cross-coupling of nonlinear site response with buildings in cities like environment
15:10 Coffee break
15:30 Invited presentation
– Danijel SCHORLEMMER (Professor, GFZ Potsdam, Germany)
What have we learned and what are the consequences? — Approach to a data- and test-driven global dynamic seismic hazard and risk model
16:30 Progress report for FY2016
– Hiroshi KAWASE (Professor, DPRI, Kyoto University, Japan)
The damage survey report of AIJ and observed strong ground motions in downtown Mashiki during the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake: Implications for quantitative prediction of building damage
17:30 End of day 1
17:45 Reception

Day：2　(March 28th, 2017) 9:30-17:30
9:30 Invited presentation
– Dun WANG (Professor, China University of Geosciences at Wuhan, China)
High frequency energy radiation of recent large earthquakes as revealed by tele-seismic observations
10:30 Progress report for FY2016
– Hongjun SI (Research Fellow, ERI, University of Tokyo, Japan)
On ground motion evaluation using ground motion prediction equation (GMPE) for subduction-zone earthquakes in Japan
11:30 Lunch
13:00 Invited presentations
– Jean-Paul PINELLI (Visiting Professor, DPRI; Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
Perspective from the point of view of Hurricane/Typhoon Risk Modeling
– Michiko SHIGEFUJI (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University, Japan)
Evaluation of Strong Ground Motion Characteristics in the Kathmandu Valley for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation -Case Study on the Strong Ground Motion and Damage during the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake-
15:00 Coffee break
15:20 Invited presentation
– Seckin Ozgur CITAK (Project Research Scientist, CEAT, JAMSTEC, Japan)
SATREPS MarDiM Project on Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation in the Marmara Region and Disaster Education in Turkey
16:20 Discussions on improving accuracy of risk evaluation for large magnitude earthquakes
17:25 Closing remarks
17:30 End of symposium

Contact: Shinichi Matsushima (DPRI, Kyoto University)

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DATE: March 13, 2017
VENUE: Collaborative Research Hub, Uji Campus, Kyoto University
Program: The workshop detail is here.
Poster: The workshop Poster is here.
 
Registration form: https://goo.gl/forms/bQcbylat3myrN7Ia2
 

The objective of the workshop is to do a hands-on practical demonstration of some
available tools for Natech risk assessment, risk mitigation and emergency operations planning for various
types of natural hazards.
We’re excited to see you take part in the workshop.

*15:30-16:10 **Twenty Nine Years of Life as An Educator*
*Masayoshi Nakashima（Professor, Earthquake Resistant Structures, Research Division of Earthquake Hazards）*
I hereby wish to summarize how I have interacted with students and post-docs, both in Japan and overseas, what research outputs those students and junior colleagues have produced, and how I enjoy the interaction with them.  I also briefly touch upon my commitments, both past and present, on managing activities for the running of a few research and professional institutions.  In between, I show photos that are reminiscent my old friendships.

16:15-16:40 Robustness of Steel-Concrete Composite Frames*
*Riccardo Zandonini (Professor, University of Trento, Italy)*
Vulnerability of structures to progressive collapse and mitigation of the effects of local damages are issues widely discussed. Recent events pointed out the need of new criteria aiming to design robust structures, i.e. structures for which a local failure does not lead to disproportionate effects. The main outcomes of recent studies are here briefly illustrated; the approaches recommended by the standards are then reviewed. Finally, the work carried out within European research projects is discussed, with particular reference to full scale tests of composite sub-frames aiming to provide an insight into the 3D action.

*16:40-17:05 Seismic Performance of Braced Frame Systems****Chales W. Roeder (Professor, University of Washington, USA)*
Braced frames are widely used for resisting lateral loads due to wind and earthquake.  While Japanese engineers do consider their structures braced frames, engineers in other countries regard many Japanese structures as braced frames.  The presentation will discuss recent research on the seismic performance of braced frames and the factors affecting this performance. It will be shown that connections may vary widely, but these connections have a significant impact on the seismic performance. The presentation will discuss both braced frames with buckling restrained and buckling braces.

*17:05-17:30 **Community Resilience: The Impact of Dr. M. Nakashima’s Work Worldwide****Roberto T. Leon (Professor, Virginia Tech, USA)*
As global urbanization trends continue to expose a very large percentage of the world’s population to natural disasters, the work of researchers like Dr. M. Nakashima have had profound impact on our ability to improve community resilience. Ranging from his work on detailing of steel structures to his leadership of E-Defense, and particularly on his extraordinary emphasis on international partnerships, the work of the Nakashima Laboratory has resulted in a more sustainable and resilient infrastructure. In this brief presentation, I will highlight some of Dr. Nakashima’s contributions, with emphasis on the NEES Consurtium/E-Defense interations.

Lecturers:

*Masayoshi Nakashima*  is professor of Kyoto University since 2000.  His areas of research include stability, ductility, and seismic analysis and design of steel members and frames and development of large-scale structural testing techniques including hybrid simulation and shaking table test.  He has supervised over 100 graduate students and post-docs, including 29 doctoral students, and published about 200 papers in archival journals. Currently, he serves as President of Architectural Institute of Japan and President-Elect of International Association for Earthquake Engineering.

*Riccardo Zandonini*‘s studying career was at the Milan University of Technology. He devoted his research work to various problems in the field of steel and composite steel-concrete structures, comprising stability, connections performance, seismic response and robustness. This activity led to more than 200 publications. Currently, he is Professor of Steel Structures at the University of Trento. He served as Vice-President of International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) from 2007 to 2015. He is Co-Editor of the Int. J. of Advanced Steel Construction (HK).

*Charles Roeder*  is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Washington.  He has performed extensive research on the seismic performance of steel and composite structures, and his research has focused on the seismic performance and rehabilitation of braced frames for the past several years.  He is a member of AISC, SEI, and ASCE, and he serves on the AISC 358 and 341 standards committees.

*Roberto Leon*‘s research interests have centered on dynamic behavior and design of composite and hybrid steel-concrete structures, composite action in beam-slab systems, bond of　reinforcement under cyclic loads, testing of full-scale and model structures in the laboratory, and field instrumentation of structures. Dr. Leon was president of the NEES Consortium and the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE.

Title：Framework to support decision-making process in Hydrocarbon Pipeline Risk Management: Colombian case
Abstract: This work illustrates three tools to support Risk Management in pipeline transportation of hazardous materials. First, it was developed an approach to determine pipeline failure probability due to landslides. Second, it was proposed an approach to determine pipeline failure probability due to corrosion defects obtained from In-Line (ILI) inspections. Finally, it was developed an approach to localize sectioning valves for loss control. These tools were designed to support a decision-making process regarding an Asset Management, based on the operating conditions from the Colombian territory by Los Andes University. The aim of them is increase the corresponding safety levels from the territory (together with other existing approaches).

Lecturer:

Dr. Felipe Munoz Giraldo, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, Los Andes University, Bogota, Colombia

Title：

Framework to support decision-making process in Hydrocarbon Pipeline Risk Management: Colombian case

 
Abstract:

This work illustrates three tools to support Risk Management in pipeline transportation of hazardous materials. First, it was developed an approach to determine pipeline failure probability due to landslides. Second, it was proposed an approach to determine pipeline failure probability due to corrosion defects obtained from In-Line (ILI) inspections. Finally, it was developed an approach to localize sectioning valves for loss control. These tools were designed to support a decision-making process regarding an Asset Management, based on the operating conditions from the Colombian territory by Los Andes University. The aim of them is increase the corresponding safety levels from the territory (together with other existing approaches).

We look forward to welcoming you at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University Annual Meeting and the 4th DPRI Award Ceremony which will be held at the Uji Campus, Obaku Plaza from 21 to 22 February 2017.

 
The researchers and students at DPRI will present their latest research results through poster and oral presentation sessions which will take place at the Hybrid Space of the Oubaku Plaza.

 
You are most welcome to join this event.

※21 February from 9：30 ～ 15：30 Ustream is available at the following link:

「http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dpri」

Programme for the rest of the day and 22 February 2017 could be found at the following link –

http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/web_j/hapyo/17/h28-program.pdf

Documents for DPRI Annual Meeting 2017 

• Program
• Poster
• Information for Oral Presentations
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Dear Participants and Presenters who are attending the DPRI Annual Meeting,

On the day of the event, prior to moving on to presentations/main hall, please register at the Reception Desk at the entrance of KIHADA Hall.

Registration site is “http://www.iag-iaspei-2017.jp/registration.html”
 

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 8, 2017
Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 10, 2017
Pre-Registration Deadline: July 7, 2017

A seminar on Imaging Seismic Sources through an Automated Multi-scale setection and Location Scheme: Application to the Analysis of Regular and Slow Earthquakes will be delivered by Dr. Natalia Poiata, National Institute for Earth Physics, Romania at the Earthquake Prediction Research Center Building-Room 200 on 6 December 2016 from 14:00-15:0-0 hours. You are welcome to attend the seminar. Prior registration is not required.

Abstract:

The ability to outline in fine detail the pattern of seismic energy release at different spatial and temporal scales is crucial for understanding the physics of deformation processes. Recent rapid densification of seismological monitoring systems, and continuously growing computational resources provide an opportunity to explore seismic sources at previously unknown scales. This, however, requires automated methods that can fully exploit complexity of seismic signals recorded across dense, large-scale seismic networks.

In this talk, Dr. Poiata will present a recently developed method called BackTrackBB, which allows to image the coherent energy radiation from seismic sources associated to different tectonic environments using continuous seismic records (Poiata et al. 2016). The method is a computationally efficient, array-based scheme performing simultaneous detection and location of seismic sources by exploiting the multi-scale frequency-selective coherence of signals’ statistical features recorded across the stations of seismic network.

Dr. Poiata will further discuss the performance of the method in detecting, Chile; (2) detection and location of tectonic tremor sources and low-frequency earthquakes during a tremor episode in southwestern Japan. The potential of extending the method to an automated system for seismic activity monitoring will be also presented.

The Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS) will organize the Fifth International Symposium on Human Survivability to provide a fresh look at the global challenges facing humanity in areas such as energy, water, food, population, diseases, etc. This year’s symposium will focus on enhancing resilience to extreme, or large-scale disasters that may threaten the well-being of present and future generations. We aim to develop a holistic approach that integrates various research fields by considering the past, present and future dimensions.

The Symposium will be held at the Shirankaikan Inamori Hall, Kyoto University, Japan from 21 to 22 November 2016.

The symposium will bring together scholars from natural and social sciences, as well as humanities. The idea behind this is that we need to go beyond the “silo-based” approach, where handling disasters is something left to experts with specialized knowledge. The integration of the knowledge of scholars from different academic fields and backgrounds could be expected to provide some novel solutions to the problem of how enhance our resilience to future disasters.

For further information, please send an e-mail to organizers.

Email: symposium2016@gsais.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Date :November 29 – December 2, 2016

 
Venue :Uji Campus, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
 
Registration fee: 8,000 JPY (5,000 JPY for students)
Lunch: 700 JPY per day (optional)
Banquet: 5,000 JPY* (3,000 JPY for students)
Field trip fee: 5,000 JPY (optional)

* The attendees and accompanying persons from abroad will be invited with free of charge.

Registration site is “http://www.dfw2016.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/registration.html“.
 

Schedule

November 29, 2016

Opening Ceremony of the Joint Workshop

ANDF Workshop

 

November 30, 2016

ANDF & MSD Workshops

Special Session on sediment management after large scale sediment disasters by invited speakers

 

December 1, 2016

MSD Workshop

Special Lecture

Closing Ceremony of the Joint Workshop

 

December 2, 2016

Field trip

Official Lunguage :English
 

Sponsors
 Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
 Association for Disaster Prevention Research
 Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd.
 Hydrotech Co., Ltd.
 JFE Metal Products & Engineering Inc.
 Kobe Steel Ltd.
 Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
 Nippon Koei Co., Ltd.
 Nippon Steel & Sumikin Metal Products Co., Ltd.
 

Supporters
 Japan Society of Erosion Control Engineering
 Rokko Sabo Office, Ministry of Land Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism
 Hyogo Prefectural Government

Date: 14-18 October 2017
Venue: Oubaku Plaza, Kyoto University, Japan

Official Site : [ http://www.slope.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/SlopeTectonics2017/st2017.html ]

We are pleased to welcome you to Kyoto to attend the 4th Slope Tectonics Conference at Kyoto University. We will have two days meeting in Kyoto and following three days field trip in the Kii Mountains, a world heritage, in Kii Peninsula, central Japan.

Slope Tectonics is a young geoscience discipline that deals with slope movement processes controlled by various factors, such as geological structures,rock weathering, topography, hydrology, and geotechnical properties of slope materials. The main aim of the conference is to bring together researchers dealing with slope movements from different approaches in order to improve the general understanding of slope processes. The location of the post-conference field trip provides us the perfect setting to view sites related to one of the main topics: rock slope deformation and catastrophic failure in accretionary complexes.

This conference follows the successful 3 Slope Tectonics Conferences in Lausanne (2008), Vienna (2011), and Trondheim (2014). The results of the previous conferences have been published as Geological Society of London, Special Publication v. 351, and as a special issue of Tectonophysics, and another one is in preparation for a special issue of Geomorphology. This conference will also aim to produce a special publication.

>> ※Early Bird registration until 10 January 2017:
JPY10,000/person (around US$98/person)

The 3^rd Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction:  Expanding the Platform for Bridging Science and Policy Making will be held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI),  Kyoto University, Uji Campus from 19 to 21 March 2017.  The 3^rd Global Summit will build on the achievements of the last two Global Summits and GADRI projects.

The 3^rd Global Summit will bring together representatives from research institutes involved in DRR research with the following objectives:

• To serve as an advocate for key research policy statements that are in line with real, evidence-based disaster research needs.
• To carry out a more detailed assessment of key research challenges and to identify priority research areas
• To identify pioneering scientific initiatives to effectively reduce the gaps between science and practice in disaster risk reduction activities.
• To share and build on achievements, and outcomes of past and ongoing GADRI Projects addressing research gaps.
• To foster links between local and international organizations and their programs through the GADRI network.

For further details, visit the 3rd Global Summit homepage

Please follow the link for further information and registration.

A-COE homepage: http://moma.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/acoe2016/index.html

Workshop Objectives:
Shirahama Oceanographic Observatory (SOO) is one of the field facilities of Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University. SOO has an offshore observation tower and the field observations on oceanographic and meteorological research have been carried out continuously.
The field observation data have important information to comprehend the oceanographic and meteorological phenomena in the subject area. The field observation data are also useful for the validation of the simulation results. Continuous multi-item data in situ would offer some partial solutions to investigate the phenomena from many angles. The significance of the field observation for better understandings is evident.
This workshop has two aims, one is the advantageous exchange of field measurement activities in fluvial and coastal areas, and the other the discussion about the utilization of the observed data (data processing, validation of simulation results, open access to data and so on).

TENTATIVE Programme

13:00-13:30 Registration

13:30-13:45 Opening Address & Introduction of Shirahama Oceanographic Observatory

13:45-14:20 Keynote lecture1 Dr. Edison Gica (NOAA, USA)
Use of Real-Time Data for Tsunami Forecasting (tentative)

14:20-14:55 Keynote lecture2 Prof. Yusuke Uchiyama (Kobe Univ., JAPAN)
Subtidal and semi-diurnal intrusion of offshore water into Tanabe Bay predicated upon a comprehensive field observation and a high-resolution down-scaling ocean modeling

14:55-15:10 Break

Several presentations (15min each, 4-5 speakers)

Free discussion (15-20 min)

Closing Remarks (around 17:00)

The programme is as follows:

November 7

10:00-10:10 Opening remarks from DPRI Director

10:10-10:15 Remarks by NCDR Director

10:15-12:20 Session 1 Meteorological Disaster (20 minutes presentation and 5 minutes discussion time.)

1. TAKEMI Tetsuya, Impacts of climate change on the severity of heavy rainfall due to fronts and typhoons
2. YU, Yi-Chiang, A meteorological research on typhoon and heavy rainfall for enhancing emergency response and operation
3. NAKAKITA, Eiichi (Or, SATO, Hiroto), Basic analyses of the arising and developing mechanism of rain-cells which cause Guerrilla-heavy rainfall
4. YAMAGUCHI, Kosei, LES simulation of cumulous clouds to understand storm genesis
5. WU, Yi-Chao, The study of the short term extreme rainfall event in Taipei

12:20-13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:30 Session 2 Earthquake Disaster

1. HASHIMOTO, Manabu, Preparing for possible gigantic earthquake along the Nankai trough
2. LIU, Sheu-Yien, Application of a Mesh-based Earthquake Impact Assessment Tool on Earthquake Disaster Preparedness and Policy Support
3. SAWADA, Sumio, A New Measure for Shake Map – An Application of Normalized Energy Density

14:45-16:00 Session 3 Land slide

1. WU, Ying-Hsin, Assessment of slopeland hazard considering landform evolution and climate change

2. SU, Yuan-Fong, Land Subsidence Monitoring using ALOS and ENVISAT Imagery in Southwest Taiwan
3. TAKEBAYASHI, Hiroshi, Cell phone application software for prediction of occurrence of surface landslide and debris flow

16:15-17:30 Session 4 hydrology

1. Kobayashi Kenichiro Overview of the Volta river SATREPS project, Ghana, Africa
2. CHANG, Chih-Hsin, Reviews on 2016 Major Typhoon Events in Taiwan
3. OIGAWA, Masanori, Data assimilation experiment of high resolution precipitable water vapor using a nested LETKF system
4. TANAKA, Shigenobu, Extreme Analysis of Catchment Averaged Precipitation in the Tone River Basin with the “d4PDF”

17:45- Social Gathering@ Fushimi Sake Brewery

November 8

9:00-10:15 Session 5 Coastal Disasters

1. ARIYOSHI, Nozomi, Long-term Assessment of Storm Surge Height base on Typhoon Maximum Potential Intensity
2. YAMAMOTO, Yosuke, Future Change Projections of Storm Surge Using MRI-AGCM3.2H Ensembles
3. MAKI, Norio, Challenge for Pre-disaster Recovery Planning in Japan

10:30-11:45 Session 6 Social and Information Issues

1. LIU, Chih-Hao, Applying Social Media for Disaster Risk Reduction
2. WU, Yu-Ping, Developing Disaster Management Strategy for Institutions with Special Needs People
3. SAMADDAR, Subhajyoti, A Community’s Perspective about Community Based　Disaster Management

11:45-12:00 Closing

You are invited to attend the workshop.

Date:  4 November 2016 from 13:00 to 14:00 hours

Venue: iCeMS Building 2F Seminar Room

Lecturer:  Prof. Michael Kahn

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Provost’s Professor of Medicine and Pharmacy, Co-Chair, GI Oncology Program,
Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for Molecular Pathways and Drug Discovery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Title:  Pharmacologic Manipulation of Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells

No registration required, all researchers are welcome.

Contact: Kouichi Hasegawa, iCeMS, NiG, Hasegawa Lab

Venue: RISH – Research Building No. 1 (HW 525)

Lecturer:

Dr.Chin-Cheng Yang (Senior Lecturer, RISH Kyoto University)

Abstract:

Biological invasions of ant species are regarded as an emerging threat to 
ecosystem sustainability as they can negatively affect ecosystems in a variety of ways
including displacement of native species, reduction of agricultural productivity and 
alteration of ecosystem processes, etc. To mitigate the impacts of invasive ants, a wide 
variety of control strategies therefore have been developed and applied to reduce the 
population of invasive ants. Despite diverse strategies available, low-toxicity bait is 
arguably among the most efficient method. Nevertheless, recent findings of my lab 
highlight some challenges to the current ant-baiting management scheme, and all of 
which are reported for the first time in the relevant fields. In this seminar session some 
case studies regarding the ecosystem impacts of invasive ants will be addressed first, 
followed by a short overview of rationale of ant bait and discussion of some 
management implications in response to such challenges. How the study of this kind 
fits in humanosphere science also will be elaborated as concluding remark of this seminar.

For further details, visit the website.

Official Site is [ http://gadri.net/activities/global-summit/the-3rd-global-summit/ ]

Lecturer:  Visiting Professor Ásthildur E. Bernharðsdóttir, Ph.D

Title：Capturing and Using Crisis Experiences in Case-based Scenario Training for Strategic Leadership

Introduction：

The lecture will report on crisis management projects run by the Swedish National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training (CRISMART), Sweden, and the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, United States, that have resulted in crisis-case studies, capturing the experiences of crisis managers during notable events in various countries. The emphasis on operational level crisis- and disaster management in training efforts may often leave out the important engagement of strategic leadership, resulting in strategic leaders who do not understand and/or underestimate their important role as active participants in integrated strategic/operational crisis management. The projects´ crisis-case banks have been effectively used as a training resource and provide, among other things, excellent opportunity to develop case-based scenarios that focus on improving strategic leadership in future crises.

For further details, visit the official website.

This symposium is held in Japanese.

For further information, please visit the website.

Held in conjunction with the Kyoto University Graduate School of Energy Science’s international workshop on energy science education, the 7th International Symposium of Advanced Energy Science will present lectures by domestic and international researchers on advanced energy science, FY2016 interim reports on IAE’s joint usage/research projects, and opportunities for in-depth discussions on topics of relevance to zero-emission energy.

The organizers are looking forward to your attendance.

For further information, please refer to the website

(１) Lecturer No.1

Title：Fundamentals of Elastic Wave Propagation and Diffuse Fields

Brief content：Prof. Francisco Sanchez-Sesma of UNAM, Mexico, will provide a
lecture on the fundamentals of wave propagation and the Green's function.
With very intuitive arguments he will convey the idea of diffuse fields and
its implications for site effect investigation.

(２) Lecturer No.2

Title：Fundamentals of Strong Motion Prediction, with Special Reference to
Source Characteristics in the Extension Regime

Brief content：Prof. John G. Anderson of UNR, USA, will provide a lecture on
the recent progress of seismic observation and subsequent development of
ground motion prediction equations and its variabilities, with special
reference to the source terms of earthquakes occurring in the extension
regime.

Details of the award are given below:

Name of the Award：　Japan Society of Civil Engineers 2016 Award

Award Recipients：　Hitomu Kotani, JSPS Fellow, and Dr. Muneta Yokomatsu

Paper Title： Local Assets as Artifacts and a Resident’s Identity Formation: Category-Selection-Model Approach「アーティファクトとしての地域資産と住民のアイデンティティ形成 ：カテゴリー選択モデルアプローチ」［土木学会論文集D1（景観・デザイン），Vol.71,No.1,pp.10-25,2015］

Award Date： 2016年6月10日

Link: 平成27年度土木学会賞受賞一覧：　https://www.jsce.or.jp/prize/prize_list/p2015.shtml#s04

Place: S-519D, Uji Campus, Kyoto University

Topics: Unpacking Child Inequality in the Northern Territory (Australia) Using Data Linkage

Abstract:  This talk discusses how publicly available community-level data and confidentialised unit-record information from existing longitudinal, administrative population data-sets can be used to investigate the early life antecedents and contemporary factors associated with educational inequality in the Northern Territory. The recent development of the SA–NT Datalink facility has enabled integration of selected information from separate NT health, education and community datasets. This is being used to investigate policy-relevant questions not previously possible. Two examples of data-linkage analysis are presented to illustrate how such research can advance understanding of the individual, family and community factors associated with patterns of school attendance and NAPLAN achievement.

Brief Brograph:
Dr Peter Shaw is a Senior Lecturer at Charles Darwin University in Australia. Dr Shaw is currently researching in parameterized complexity and has recently published a number of papers in the area of algorithmic techniques for FPT kernelization and application of FPT algorithms to novel statistical technique for the analysis of clinical data. These  including: turbo-charing heuristics, iterative compression, greedy localization, crown-rules and LDP problem dual kernalization. His interest include: both theoretical algorithms, applied FPT algorithms and predictive analytics.
Dr Shaw is currently coordinating the Parameterized Compelexity Research Unit at CDU which is a world leader in the development of efficient Fixed Parameter Tractable (FPT)  pattern search algorithms and collectively has more than 425 publications.

The exhibition held at the Entrance of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)  provides an introduction to research work carried out by the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University.

If you are around, please drop by and learn about our activities.

The 7th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER2016),
Kyoto TERRSA, Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2016.

For further information and the programme, please refer to the following link:

http://wrrc.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icwrer2016/

The International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER) is a series of conferences dealing with hydrology and water resources. ICWRER-2016 is the 7th one of the series, and back to Kyoto since 1996 (1st one). One of the objectives of ICWRER conferences is to bring together physical, biological, chemical, statistical and technical expertise in order to better understand natural systems related to water resources from all around the world.

The main theme of ICWRER-2016 Symposium is ‘Water Security in Geo, Eco and Socio-Systems’. Water security is defined as the capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality water for sustaining livelihoods, human well-being, and socio-economic development, for ensuring protection against water-borne pollution and water-related disasters, and for preserving ecosystems in a climate of peace and political stability. (UN-Water, 2013)

The topics of ICWRER conferences are wide encompassing climate change, hydrometeorological extremes, GIS and remote sensing, surface water and ground water interaction, real-time hydrometeorological forecasting, water-related disasters, integrated sediment and ecosystem management, water and environment management, eco-hydraulics and eco-hydrology, risk analysis and management, Legislation systems for water management, water diplomacy, social and economic aspects in water resources, and sustainable water resources management.

This conference is organized aiming to enhance the understanding of the natural and social phenomena associated with water resources issues through the discussion about whole water resources management system as integrated elements of geosystems, social systems and ecosystems.

Online Streaming:

Access the following link for online streaming:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dpri

Capacity: 300 seats

Admission is free. However, prior registration is required.

Registration:

Advance registration is required. Please send an e-mail to kokai28@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp with your name and affiliation.

Registrations would be accepted on first come, first serve basis, until all seats are booked. Once your registration is confirmed, you will receive a notification. If you do not hear from us, please send an e-mail to: kokai28@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp .

* Note:

Your personal data would not be used for other purposes other than for registration to this public lecture series.

Please note that this event will be in Japanese. English interpretation will not be provided.

The Public Lecture Series aims to foster audience participation and you are encouraged to engage with the speakers during the question-and-answer sessions.

The DPRI Public Lecture Series is certified as a CPD Program of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.

Registration:

E-mail: kokai28@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Tel: 0774-38-3350

Access to the Event Venue:

Schönbach Sabō Conference Hall -シェーンバッハ・サボー – 1st Floor, Japan Sabo Association

2-7-5 Hirakawacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

(Subways: Yurakucho Line, Hanzomon Line, Namboku Line – Exit no. 4)

Tel: 03-3261-8386

To commemorate the occasion, DPRI will hold a special exhibition at the entrance exhibition area of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan (MEXT) from 27 April to 30 June 2016; and the 27^th annual Public Lecture series which was started in 1990 for the purpose of sharing research results with the public. Both events will be held in Tokyo.

Both events are open to the public.

Since the seating is limited to 60 persons, please click on the REGISTER button to access the registration form.

Date: 27 April 2016 from 13:30 to 15:30 hours

Venue: Information Plaza Lounge, MEXT, 3-2-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

文部科学省 「情報ひろば」 ラウンジ

REGISTER

Map to MEXT

For further details, please refer to Kyoto University website at http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/about/events_news/department/uji/events/2015/160408_1700.html

The Discussion Forum will introduce GADRI projects and activities; facilitate discussion between GADRI members and important stakeholders in disaster risk reduction. The forum will be concluded with a panel discussion session consisting of various stakeholders from governmental and UN agencies. It is expected to draw a road map for GADRI directions for the next few years.

For registration, please contact  GADRI Secretariat:

secretariat-gadri@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

For further information, refer to the Programme.

This meeting is not open to the public.

“Construction of a New Paradigm for Improving Uncertainty of Risk Evaluation for Large Magnitude Earthquakes”

【Program】

Date & Time: Friday, March 25^th, 2016 9:30-18:00

Venue: Kihada Hall, Kyoto University Uji Campus

9:30

• Opening address (5 min.)
• Background and Purpose of the project “Cooperative Research by Liaison between Hub institutes” (15 min.)

9:50

• Progress report (2 hours in total)
  • Source model Masatoshi Miyazawa (DPRI)
  • Propagation path and deep structure Kimihiro Mochizuki (ERI)
  • Strong motion prediction Takashi Iidaka (ERI)
  • Shallow structure Tetsuo Tobita (DPRI)
  • Structure damage estimation Hiroshi Kawase (DPRI)
  • Risk evaluation Kazuyoshi Nishijima (DPRI)
  • Platform development Shinichi Matsushima (DPRI)
  • Stakeholder involvement Norio Maki (DPRI)
  • Uncertainty of risk evaluation Seung Han Lee (DPRI)

11:50

Lunch break

13:00

• Invited presentations (40 min. each)
  • John Douglas (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)

“Estimation of Strong Ground Motion: Aleatory Variability and Epistemic Uncertainty”

• Christine Goulet (University of Southern California/Southern California Earthquake Center)

“Reduction of epistemic uncertainty in ground-motion hazard assessment: empirical and simulation-based approaches”

14:20

Coffee break

14:30

• Thomas Le Guenan (BRGM)

“Strategies and tools for decision making (provisional)”

• Katsuichiro Goda (University of Bristol)

“Multi-Hazard Earthquake-Tsunami Risk Assessment for Mega-thrust Subduction Earthquakes”

15:50

Coffee break

16:00

• Reduction of uncertainty (1 hour in total)
  • Source model
  • Propagation path and deep structure
  • Strong motion prediction
  • Shallow structure
  • Structure damage estimation
  • Risk evaluation

17:00

• Discussions (55 min.)

17:55

• Closing remarks (5 min.)

18:00

End

 
Programme:

Key note lecture:
Dr. Irasema Alcántara-Ayala
(National Autonomous University of Mexico, DPRI Kyoto University)
“Beyond hazard understanding: landslide risk perception in developing countries”

Invited speakers:
Dr. Masyhur Irsyam (Bandon Institute of Technology)
Dr. Nicola Casagli (University of Florence)
Dr. Michel Jaboyedoff (University of Lausanne)
Dr. Katsuo Sasahara (Kochi University)
Dr. Naoki Sakai (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention)
Dr. Guangqi Chen (Kyushu Univ)

+ 6 DPRI speakers (Tatano, Chigira, Kamai, Matsuura, Takebayashi, Matsushi)

Invited speaker: Dr. Yoko Matsuda (Kansei-Gakuin University) Presentation title：Participatory disaster resilience strategy in the era of diverse concerns

Invited speaker: Dr. Tomoaki Nishino (Building Research Institute) Presentation title：Development and Application of Models for Seismic-Induced Fire and Tsunami-Induced Fire

The seminar will be followed by light refreshments.

You are cordially invited to attend the seminars.

Date and time:  14:00-17:00, 17 March 2016 from 14:00 to 17:00 hours

Venue:                   S-207D, Uji Campus

Language:             English

Please feel free to join the symposium.

PROGRAMME

For further information and the programme, please refer to the following link:

https://sites.google.com/site/kyotoseminar2016/home

You are cordially invited to attend the seminar.

As the progresses of urbanization, short-term and long-term national-wide large scale economic developing planning or zoning, China is facing more and more water and environmental related problems. For instance, serious water pollution, degradations of river eco-biological systems, water shortages, and etc. are to be a bottleneck for the sustainable economic development in China and other developing countries. In order to maintain a harmony status between water resources and economic development, especially to keep the health of river eco-biological system, it is necessary to study the municipal water and environmental carry capacities so that the scales and quantities of regional development schemes or scenarios are within the carry capacities. A case study was conducted in Du-yun city, Guizhou province. In this study, control units, consists of different boundaries of a river basin and its sub-basins, different administrative areas and river function zones are proposed for a better control and management of basin scale point sources and non-point sources coming from our irrational activities conducted in industrial, farming and other economic products. In addition, better management strategies and effective control measures are also proposed for the local governments in their decision-making.

The lecture will be held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Ujigawa Open Laboratory, Research Center for Fluvial and Coastal Disasters, 1F Seminar Room 107.

You are cordially invited to attend the lecture.

The Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI) – Earthquake and Volcanic Disaster Group — will hold a workshop on “Bridging Strong-motion and Earthquake Damage” at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Kyoto, Japan on 25 February 2016 from 11:00 to 18:00 hours.

Please refer to the Programme for further details.

The Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University Annual Meeting and the 3^rd DPRI Award Ceremony will be held at the Uji Campus, Obaku Plaza from 23 to 24 February 2016.

There will be poster sessions and oral presentations of latest research results by each research institute. We look forward to welcoming you at these sessions.

※ 23 February from 9：30 ～ 15：15 Ustream is available at the following link:

「http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dpri」

For the Programme from 11:00 to 19:15 hours and 24 February 2016, please refer to the following link:

http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/web_j/hapyo/16/h27-program.pdf

１）Present-day crustal deformation of Taiwan derived from decadal geodetic data
Prof. Kuo-En Ching （景國恩台湾成功大准教授）

２）Taiwan mountain building and modeling results
Dr. Yun-Ruei Chuang (National Cheng Kung University)

３）Geostatistical integration of multiple types of observations to improve the
spatiotemporal resolution of land subsidence monitoring in Choushui River Fluvial Plain, Taiwan
Mr. Chih-Heng Lu (National Central University)

４）Locked Event in the Chihshang Creeping Reverse Fault Derived from
the PSInSAR and GNSS Observations in Eastern Taiwan
Mr. Yen-Po Lai　(National Cheng Kung Univesrity)

You are cordially invited to attend the seminar.

For further details, visit website at: http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/web_j/contents/event_text/20160124.pdf

For further details, please refer to the symposium website:

https://www.jamstec.go.jp/sousei/jp/event/others/d4PDFsympo/index.html

The 8^th Japan-Taiwan Joint Seminar on Natural Hazard Mitigation in 2015

Following the 2^nd Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction: Development of a Research Road Map for the Next Decade, the atmospheric and water related disaster and integrated disaster risk management groups agreed to establish a network of international research groups to investigate hydro-meteorological disasters in an effort to implement new research methodologies that emphasize trans-disciplinary approaches.

The GADRI workshop entitled, “Round Table Discussion: Towards an Integrated Disaster Risk Research Platform for Hydro-meteorological hazards.” The GADRI workshop will be held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus on 13 October 2015 followed by a wrap-up session on 16 October 2015.

The GADRI meeting aims to strengthen and increase its collaboration and exchange with other international researchers regarding hydro-meteorological hazards across different regions. The main focus will be the development of a comprehensive, integrated disaster risk assessment platform for hydro-meteorological hazards that can be accessed and shared among all GADRI members. The GADRI meeting hopes to promote the preparation of some preliminary research proposal outline based on the identification of research needs and the expertise, availability and willingness to contribute by the participants.

Programme

Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Purpose：

The 1st International Symposium on Flash Floods in Wadi System focuses on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) by discussing current mitigation measures for protection against flash floods in arid and semi-arid regions, and consequent wise use of floodwater (water harvesting) in Wadi systems.

There are twenty-two Arab countries with a total population of 420 million. The Arab region is located in arid and semi-arid zones. The climate is characterized by hot dry summers, moderate winters, and very little rainfall. Rapid increase of population and urbanization has pushed people to high disaster risk zones such as on unstable hills and Wadi’s flood plain located in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Yemen. Among the topics of the Symposium, integrated flash flood management is discussed on several fronts: flood protection, hydrological modeling, water harvesting, social implications, future development of Wadi’s, integrated risk management, sedimentation in reservoirs, water resources management and dam constructions.

This symposium is organized as a collaborative activity of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI) which aims at strengthening global collaboration and exchange in joint research activities within international institutes and researchers. Flash flood problems in arid and semi-arid regions are listed as one of target issues for such collaboration.

For further details of the Symposium Program, click here

Registration:

Prior registration is required. Please complete the form below and send it to Ms. Hisae Obara by 9 October 2015.

E-mail the completed form to: obara.hisae.6n@kyoto-u.ac.jp

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Reception on 14 October 2015 – ¥4,000/person

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We hope you would be able to attend this symposium and we look forward to welcoming you at the venue.

For more details, please visit the Symposium webpage on the following link

http://ecohyd.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index/1.html

The theme of the 52^nd Symposium is on “Taking International Joint Research Collaborations to a Renewed Level”.

The 52^nd Symposium is sponsored by the Natural Disaster Research Council (NDRC).

We cordially invite you to attend this symposium.

For further details, please refer to the Programme below.

Date:                 Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Place:                Kyoto University Uji Campus, Obaku Plaza, Kihada Hall

Address:           Gokasho, Uji-shi, Kyoto 611-0011

Sponsored by: Natural Disaster Research Council (NDRC)

Admission Free

Registrations are now open. Please use the following Registration form to register by 18 September 2015.

E-mail the completed form to: shizensaigai@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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We hope you would be able to attend this symposium and we look forward to welcoming you at the venue.

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A Window to Science at Uji Campus

The Uji Campus Open Day is an event of the School of Science and Engineering of Kyoto University.  A perfect opportunity to visit our campus and experience the science life and a great opportunity to rekindle your interest in science too.  The Uji Open Campus Day allows families, children, friends and prospective students to visit the campus and get to know the work that we are doing at the Uji Campus.    You have questions to ask?  Our tranquil environment and friendly campus will provide you the opportunity to meet academic staff, discuss course and research opportunities and what it all entails.  There will be plenty of faculty members, staff and current students on the day at your service.  Kyoto University Uji Campus Open day is a great way to research courses and find out what science life is like for you.  Talk to students and find out directly from them what life is like at the campus. Come and enjoy a day of science with us!

Date:  Saturday and Sunday – 24 to 25 October 2015

Time: 9:30 to 16:30 hours

Contact information

Uji Administration Office

Uji Campus, Kyoto University

Gakasho, Uji-shi, Kyoto 〒611-0011
Tel: 0774-38-3350
Fax: 0774-38-3369
E-mail: kokai@uji.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Further information – http://www.uji.kyoto-u.ac.jp/open-campus/2015.html

Research Frontier of Disaster Mitigation

Earthquake, Volcano and Technological Hazard

Date and time: October 1 (Thu), 2015 10:00 – 17:00

Online Lecture:

The lectures are televised live through internet.

http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/

Onsite Lecture:

Venue: Lecture Room 1, 5F, Campus Plaza Kyoto

(Nishino-Toin-dori Shiokoji Sagaru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto)

Capacity: 200 seats

Admission is free. However, prior registration is required.

Registration application

Send an e-mail with your name, age and affiliation to kokai27@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp .

The deadline is September 18 (Fri), 2015.

Registrations will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis, until all seats are booked.

Notice: We will not use your personal data for other purposes other than to register of this public lecture.

We will provide the result of the application to each applicant by no later than September 25 (Fri), 2015. If you do not get our reply by this date, please send an email to: kokai27@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp .

Program

The DPRI public lecture series is certified as a CPD program of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.

Access

From JR/Kintetsu Kyoto Station: a 5-minute walk from Karasuma Exit.

From Subway Kyoto Station: a 5-minute walk from the north ticket gate.

Development of a Research Road Map for the Next Decade

After a successful 1st Global Summit in 2011, we are going to hold the “Second Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction: Development of a Research Road Map for the Next Decade” at Kihada Hall, Uji Campus, Kyoto University on 19-20 March 2015. This event is being organized by the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) of Kyoto University in collaboration with the Natural Disaster Research Council(NDRC), Japan.

The 1st Global Summit was held in Kyoto on 24-25 November 2011 with the participation of representatives from 25 research institutes from 11 countries to reflect on the challenges posed by disaster risks, explore new paradigms for DRR, and discuss new approaches to disaster mitigation and risk management. The two-day event involved workshop style discussions and resulted in the drafting of a Resolution. One of the key points in the resolution was the establishment of an alliance of the disaster research institutes, now called the International Forum on Natural Disaster Research (IFNDR). The purpose of the IFNDR is to move forward the recommendations of the Resolution, and in particular to share knowledge, experiences and ideas on disaster research in order to contribute to enhancing disaster risk reduction and disaster resilience.

This year on the occasion of the 2nd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, we would like to discuss the research goals and contribution that the disaster research institutes can make to disaster risk reduction in the next decade. The evaluation of the results of the HFA has pointed out the need to better link disaster risk reduction, development and climate change adaptation strategies towards a common goal of harmonious living with nature and our planet. Many challenges remain as the continued large-scale disasters and losses from around the world show. The 2nd Global Summit represents an invitation and an opportunity for all research organizations involved in disaster risk reduction (DRR) to reflect on these and future challenges and how we may tackle them through scientific and applied research in the coming decade.

The goals of the Summit are:

• To evaluate research achievements in the past 10 years
• To identify research gaps and needs
• To imagine research challenges and possible outcomes in the next decade
• To use the occasion of the 2nd World Summit to formalize the establishment of the International Forum on Natural Disaster Research
• To propose a Research Road Map on DRR for the next decade
• To publish, distribute, and promote the findings and recommendations of the Summit to academic research organizations, government agencies and international organizations.

Research Initiative for Natural Disaster Prevention of Oil and Gas Spill in Industrial Parks

International Symposium on Natural Disaster Impacts to Large Industrial Parks

Date: March 11-12, 2015

Venue: Room No. 703, Nakanoshima Center of Osaka University

http://www.onc.osaka-u.ac.jp/

Social: A social will be held from 17:30 on March 11th, 2015 at Cultural Salon located at 9th floor of Nakanoshima Center．Fee: 2,000 Yen except for invited speakers and students

Sponsorship:

Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University

Port and Airport Research Institute

Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University

Objectives:

Oil storage tanks in industrial parks were heavily damaged by large scale tsunami, and large-scale oil spills occurred, which led to fire in entire city area, after Great East Japan earthquake on March 11, 2011. Much more larger scale disasters of damages and hazardous materials releases will be estimated in Tokyo Bay, Ise Bay or Osaka Bay if Tokai-Tonankai-Nankai earthquake simultaneously occurs. It is very urgent to perform risk assessment of damages and hazardous materials releases caused not only by large scale earthquake and tsunami, but also by large scale hurricane or typhoon, and take countermeasures to decrease such disasters. This symposium is aiming at bridging across researchers, administrative bodies, and industries in the interdisciplinary fields from the worldwide viewpoint, and advancing the safety of coastal area in the world.

Topics:

• ﾂꀀ Reports of damages caused by large scale earthquake, tsunami and hurricane or typhoon in various countries
• ﾂꀀ Risk assessment ofﾂꀀoilﾂꀀand gas spill fromﾂꀀindustrialﾂꀀparksﾂꀀcaused by large scale earthquake, tsunami and hurricane or typhoon
• ﾂꀀ Hardware and software countermeasures forﾂꀀdecrease of risk of oil spill byﾂꀀlarge scale earthquake, tsunami, typhoon or hurricane from oil storage tanks in industrial parks from the aspects of technology, designing, operation, evacuation information and regulation
• ﾂꀀ Other related topics

Organizing Committee:

Chairperson　　　Prof. Naomi Kato　Osaka University

Prof. Shinichi Aoki　Osaka University

Prof. Ana Maria Cruz　Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute

Dr. Isamu Fujita　Port and Airport Research Institute

Dr. Eiji Kohama　Port and Airport Research Institute

Mr. Hideyuki Shirota　National Maritime Research Institute

Program of Symposium(Second Circular)

Please click here to see the program.

Application to Participation on the Symposium

If you want to take part in the symposium, you should send the e-mail to Kato laboratory, Division of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University（E-mail: secre07@naoe.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp）until February 27th(Fri).

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We are organizing the workshop related seismology between

ﾂꀀ – Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP),
– Ecole normale superieure (ENS) in Paris, and
– Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) in Kyoto university.

This workshop aims to share experiences and interests among scientists, network with institute representatives in the next generation, and discuss challenging problems in seismology. Everyone is welcome to attend.

6 March 2015 (Fri) 10:00 – 17:00

IPGP room 310, 1 Rue Jussieu, Paris (Google Map)

There is no cost to participants. Registration is not required.

Workshop Program (PDF, 100kb)

We are organizing the workshop related seismology between

– Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP),
– Ecole normale superieure (ENS) in Paris, and
– Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) in Kyoto university.

This workshop aims to share experiences and interests among scientists, network with institute representatives in the next generation, and discuss challenging problems in seismology. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Date

6 March 2015 (Fri) 10:00 – 17:00

Place

IPGP room 310, 1 Rue Jussieu, Paris (Google Map)

Registration

There is no cost to participants. Registration is not required.

Program

Workshop Program (PDF, 100kb)
http://www.eqh.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/src/workshop2015/WorkshopProgram.pdf

Location: DPRI Renkei-Kenkyu building 301(3F), Uji Campus, Kyoto University

Presentations:
1. “RAPID-N: Rapid natech risk assessment and mapping framework.”
Dr. Serkan Girgin, Research Fellow, Joint Research Centre, European Commission,
Ispra, Italy.
Major accidents at industrial plants that are triggered by natural hazards (Natechs) are
an emerging risk with possibly serious economic, environmental and human-health
related consequences. For the mitigation of Natech risk, which is expected to increase in
the future due to growing industry and predicted increase of natural hazards, the
authorities need to identify Natech prone areas and assess Natech risk in a methodical
way. Currently hardly any Natech risk maps exist for many countries and where
available they are simple overlays of natural and technological hazards without
considering site-specific features or the interaction of hazards.
In order to facilitate probabilistic Natech risk mapping, a unified methodology was
developed that is based on the estimation of on-site natural hazard parameters,
determination of damage probabilities of plant units due to natural hazard, and
assessment of probability and severity of possibly triggered Natech events. The
methodology was implemented as an on-line, extensible risk assessment and mapping
software called RAPID N, which allows rapid local and regional Natech risk assessment
and mapping with minimal data input. RAPID-N features an innovative data
estimation framework to complete missing input data, such as on-site natural hazard
parameters or plant unit characteristics. The framework is also used for damage
assessment and Natech consequence analysis, and allows easy modification of input
parameters, dynamic generation of consequence models according to data availability,
and extension of models by adding new equations or substituting existing ones with
alternatives. Results are presented as summary reports and interactive risk maps,
which can be used for land-use and emergency planning purposes by using scenario
hazards, or for rapid Natech consequence assessment following actual disasters. As
proof of concept, the framework provides an implementation of the U.S. EPA’s RMP
Guidance for Offsite Consequence Analysis methodology to perform Natech consequence
analysis and includes comprehensive data for world-wide earthquakes (M > 5.5). It is
readily extendible to other natural hazards and industries (e.g. pipelines) and can also
be supported with more comprehensive risk assessment methods.
During the presentation, the key elements of the Natech risk assessment methodology,
such as damage classifications, fragility curves, and risk states will be described. The
features and the modules of RAPID-N will be explained in detail and the flowchart of
the risk assessment calculations will be described step by step. Finally, the capabilities
of RAPID-N will be demonstrated by using a case-study which will involve the impact of
an earthquake on multiple industrial plants.
2. “Understanding the general picture of issues concerning people evacuating across
wide areas from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.”
Dr. Yoko Matsuda, Associate Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.
Due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident and the Great East Japan Earthquake,
approximately 50,000 or more people have still displaced from Fukushima and nearby
prefectures to all over Japan. This issue of the long-term and widespread evacuation
has lack of prospect.
The evacuees who lived distanced from their homeland are suffering from separation
and conflict among their family, loss of job opportunities and diminished quality of life.
In addition, since they spread all over the country, it is quite difficult for them to discuss
and get consensus for the communities’ future process of recovery.
The presentation characterizes this issue of long-term evacuation, to compare it from
the cases of past natural disasters in Japan. Then it is pointed out that the structure of
the problem is similar to the international refugee problem. From these analyses, the
paper concludes that diverse support measures are required not merely repatriation
support or settlement support.