************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.23
12 Dec. 2007************************************************************+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contents +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year
2. International Graduate Program at Hokkaido University
3. Gulf Seismic Forum in Yemen
4. Invitation to "Seismology, Earthquake Engineering and DisasterMitigation" Training Course++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==========================================================[1] Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year
Only half month left till the New Year, and now is the time to reflect year
2007.

Again this year many disastrous earthquakes occurred in many partsof the world including Peru and Indonesia.

Let's do our best next year sothat the damage will decrease. Please find the attached group photo thatshows you all the IISEE staff members.

Dr. Koyama, chief researchengineer, returned to IISEE as Dr. Hasegawa's successor after a 7-yearabsence.

A staff and secretaries joining IISEE in this year are as follows;

Ms. Isogai, Ms. Takikawa, Ms. Suzuki, Ms. Nonaka and Ms. Katayama.

Wesincerely appreciate your continuing support for IISEE. We wish the New
Year will be the happiest and best for you.
Nobuo HURUKAWA & all IISEE staff members

Season’s Greetings and Best WishesforThe New Year2007 / 2008

Nobuo HurukawaIISEEDirector

Administration Division
Mr. SAKURAZAWA, S Ms. ISOGAI, A Mr. KONISHI, KResearch Engineer
Dr. TAMURA, M Dr. SAITO, T Dr. KOYAMA, S Dr. KASHIMA, T
Research Seismologist
Dr. YOKOI, T Dr. HARA, T Dr. SHIBAZAKI, B Dr. FUJII, Y
Visiting Research Staff
Dr. MINOWA, C Dr. INOUE, H Dr. YAGI, Y
JICA Coordinator
Ms. SHIBATA, YSecretaries
Ms. KUSAMA, R Ms. NARUSHIMA, A Ms. NONAKA, M Mr. NISHIMURA, NMs. KATAYAMA, J Ms. SUZUKU, T Ms. FUKUMURA, Y Ms. TAKIKAWA, CMs. KITAGAWA K---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] International Graduate Program at Hokkaido University
Hokkaido University presents "International Graduate Program in the
Natural History Sciences" (I-NHS) in which foreign students can study earthand planetary sciences in Hokkaido, Japan. There are both Master andPh.D. courses.

The official language will be English.

If you are interested

in this program, please visit the following sites:
http://www.hokudai.ac.jp/en/admission/admissions.html
http://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/grp/i-nhs/home/
If you wish to come to Japan for study, the following sites will be helpful:
http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/koutou/ryugaku/kokuhi/tokubetu/07032702.
htm
http://www.jpss.jp/eng/index.html
Tatsuhiko HARA
Chief Research Scientist, IISEE---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[3] Gulf Seismic Forum in Yemen
The Fifth Gulf Seismic Forum will be held on April 6-9, 2008 in Sana'aYemen.

The abstract submission deadline (EXTENDED) is 30 December

2007, and ex-participants in Yemen invite you to the Forum.

Since I plan toattend it to introduce IISEE's activities, I really hope to meet as many as
ex-participants there.

Please visit the following website on Forum:

http://www.ysoc.net/fcircular.htm
Nobuo HURUKAWA
Director, IISEE

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[4] Invitation to "Seismology, Earthquake Engineering and Disaster
Mitigation" Training Course
We prepare a one-page brochure that introduces one of the IISEE Regularcourses. Although we issue the IISEE brochure, this one-page brochure will
be useful for several purposes.

You may introduce achievement andimportance of the training to your bosses and governments.

Those whocannot open the attached document, please find it in our website.
brochure: http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/net/newsletter/newsletter23/brochure.pdf
Nobuo HURUKAWA
Director, IISEE==========================================================**********************************************************************We send this IISEE Newsletter to ex-participants whose e-mail addresses
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The IISEE send you new information actively and accept yourcontribution at any time.

In order to enlarge our IISEE network, we'd liketo ask you to invite your fellow ex-participants whose e-mail addresses areunknown to us to join us.
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