General Information Venue:

Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University

Kyoto Hotel Okura


Symposium Organizers:

Masahiro Kurata, DPRI, Kyoto Univ.

Shohei Yamada, Nikken Sekkei, LTD.

Dawei Liu, Daiwa House Industry, Co.

Peng Pan, Tsinghua University

Dimitrios Lignos, Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Hiroshi Aburano, Takenaka Co.


Staff: 1st year Master Students

Hironari Shimada, Mayu Hitomi, Tadahisa Takeda, Yu Otsuki


Registration:

On-site Registration opens at 8:45, March 31 at the Kihada Hall entrance.

On-site Registration opens at 13:00, April 1 at the Gyoun room entrance, 4F, Kyoto Hotel Okura.
TENTATIVE PROGRAM as of January 23, 2016

March 31
Presenters Session Organizers
Morning 9:00-9:05
Opening		 Masahiro Kurata
9:05-9:10
Greetings		 1st year Master Students
9:10-10:30
Session 1
9:10-9:17 Konstantinos Skalomenos Session Chair: Tadahisa Takeda

Panel of Judges:
Masayoshi Nakashima, Ricchardo Zandonini
Benson Shing, Iunio Iervolino
9:17-9:24 Dimitorios Lignos
9:24-9:31 Tae-Hyung Lee
9:31-9:38 Hongsong Hu
9:38-9:45 Yunbiao Luo
9:45-9:52 Takuya Nagae
9:52-9:59 Takehiko Asai
9:59-10:06 Yundong Shi
10:06-10:13 Rudiger Weitzmann
10:13-10:20 Yongtao Bai
10:20-10:27 Xuchuan Lin
10:50-12:10
Session 2
10:50-10:57 Wang Tao Session Chair: Hironari Shimada

Panel of Judges:
Masayoshi Nakashima, Charles Roeder
Elena Mele, Oren Lavan
10:57-11:04 Po-Chien Hsiao
11:04-11:11 Sachi Furukawa
11:11-11:18 Edoardo Marino
11:18-11:25 Zhenyun Tang
11:25-11:32 Mai Ito
11:32-11:39 Hisatoshi Kashiwa
11:39-11:46 Tracy Becker
11:46-11:53 Xiaodong Ji
11:53-12:00 Masahiro Ikenaga
12:00-12:07 Kohei Fujita
Lunch 12:15-13:15 Lunchbox at Hybrid Space, DPRI
Afternoon 13:30-15:10
Session 3
13:30-13:37 Ryuta Enokida Session Chair: Yu Otsuki

Panel of Judges:
Masayoshi Nakashima, Roberto Leon
Khalid Mosalam, Gang Shi
13:37-13:44 Zhou Feng
13:44-13:51 Liusheng He
13:51-13:58 Yu-Lin Chung
13:58-14:05 Pan Peng
14:05-14:12 Xiaohua Li
14:12-14:19 Pengcheng Zhang
14:19-14:26 Xie Qiang
14:26-14:33 Kazuhiro Hayashi
14:33-14:40 Yao Cui
14:40-14:47 Iori Kanao
14:47-14:54 Kazuaki Hoki
14:54-15:01 Jason MacCormick
15:01-15:08 Taichiro Okazaki
15:08-15:15 Group Photo
15:30-16:10
Commerotative Lecture 		Masayoshi Nakashima Session Chair: Masahiro Kurata
16:15-16:40
Keynote Presentation 1 		Riccardo Zandonini
(University of Trento)
16:40-17:05
Keynote Presentation 2 		Charles W. Roeder
(University of Washington)
17:05-17:30
Keynote Presentation 3 		Roberto T. Leon
(Virginia Tech)
17:30-18:30
Structural Lab Tour
Dinner 18:30-20:30 Reception at Restaurant Kihada, DPRI


April 1
Afternoon 13:30-16:00
Reunion Party 		Chairpersons: Peng Pang, Dimitrios Lignos, Shohei Yamada

Note:
In the sessions on Day 1, the participants are welomed to make a short presentation for future research directions in earthquake engineering. The presenters are divided by three teams as shown in red, blue and yellow, based on when they belonged to Nakashima laboratory. The presentations will be evaluated by a panel of Judges composed of Prof. Nakashima and the other senior professors. The scores will be summed up for each team and the winning team can get modest prize.
Prospective Participants

Thus far, about one hundred former and current visiting scholars, post-docs, graduate students, and undergraduate students express their willingness to join this reunion gathering from a variety of countries.
Venue March 31, 2017
- Kihada Hall, Obaku Plaza, Uji Campus, Kyto University
http://www.uji.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/access_e.html
April 1, 2017 -Gyoun, 4F, Kyoto Hotel Okura
http://okura.kyotohotel.co.jp/english/about/access/
Access Direction for Uji Campus
JR Nara line (local train only) From JR Kyoto Station to JR Obaku Station: about 20 minutes From JR Obaku to Campus: a six minute walk

Timetables of Japanese train (English)

The route from Obaku station to Kihada hall

 Contacts Address Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto Univ.
Gokasho, Uji
Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
E-mails Masahiro Kurata
kurata.masahiro.5ckyoto-u.ac.jp