************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.6
27 Oct. 2006************************************************************We send this IISEE Newsletter to ex-participants whose e-mail addresses are known.
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ex-participants whose e-mail addresses are unknown to us to join us.
Nobuo HURUKAWA
Director, IISEE+++++++++++++++++++++++++++Contents ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. Renewal of the IISEE Newsletter
2. New director of the IISEE
3. IISEE 19 participants became the first ones to receive master's degrees
4. New-created "Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course" just started
5. European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology(ECEES) in Geneva
6. JICA short-term expert in Romania for seismic risk reduction
7. ASC 2006 is coming soon!

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==========================================================[1] Renewal of the IISEE Newsletter
In order to promote the publication of the IISEE Newsletter and to activate informationexchange between the IISEE staff and ex-participants, we renew the IISEE Newsletter.
We will issue it more often, once a month at least, via Internet. We welcome yourarticles to our newsletter.

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6. The IISEE Newsletter will be issued once a month at least.
Nobuo HURUKAWA
Director, IISEE, the Editor in Chief
Takashi HASEGAWA
Senior Research Engineer, IISEE, the Editor-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] New director of the IISEEI, Dr. Hurukawa, succeeded Dr. Fukuta as the director of the IISEE on April 1, 2006. I
am a seismologist and joined the IISEE in 1984. Dr. Fukuta-san had worked as thedirector of the IISEE for 5 years and is now a research coordinator of building
technology of the BRI. He did great contribution to the IISEE, such as the creation ofthe Master Degree's program "Earthquake Disaster Mitigation" for our one-yeartraining and the establishment of the new "Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course". Let's
say THANK YOU to Fukuta-san.
Nobuo HURUKAWADirector, IISEE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[3] IISEE 19 participants became the first ones to receive master's degrees
Since the 46th Annual Training on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, which was
set in October 2005, BRI, JICA and National Graduate Institute for Policy
Studies(GRIPS) cooperated each other to found the master course "Earthquake Disaster
Mitigation Program" for getting "Master of Disaster Mitigation." In this September, all
19 participants, who came from 17 countries, were awarded master's degrees as the firstones to receive them in Annual Training Course of IISEE. After the participants get thedegrees, they are expected to play active roles in the field of seismology and earthquakeengineering on a sound footing gained at IISEE, furthermore, they are sure tocontribute to development of earthquake disaster mitigation in their countries.
Shoji SAKURAZAWA
Head of Administration Division, IISEEThe conferment of a master’s degree by the chief executive of the BRI

The first Master’s Degree awarded participants with the lecturers-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[4] New-created "Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course" just started
In this year, we invite 25 participants from 18 countries and start the 47th Annual
Training on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering. In addition to existing twocourses, "Seismology Course" and "Earthquake Engineering Course", a new-created"Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course" was founded. This course is founded to carry out
a comprehensive study of tsunami mitigation for one year. We accepted a total of 5
researchers or technicians, who came from 4 countries (Bangladesh, Indonesia,Malaysia and Thailand). All 25 participants became master course students of GRIPS.
Let's hope all of them will receive master's degrees one year later.
Shoji SAKURAZAWA
Head of Administration Division, IISEE

2006-2007 Participants-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[5] European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology(ECEES) in Geneva
The First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (ECEES,
http://www.ecees.org/) was held in Geneva on September 3-8, 2006. 1,300 participants
came together from 63 countries and discussed up-to-date topics in the field ofearthquake engineering and seismology. Dr. Hurukawa, director of IISEE, and I (Dr.
Kashima) participated in the conference and presented our research results. We could
meet many ex-participants from Algeria, Egypt, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Turkey,and so on. We were very happy to see dear friends to know their activities.
Toshihide KASHIMA
Senior Research Engineer, IISEE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[6] JICA short-term expert in Romania for seismic risk reduction
I, Dr. Saito, went to Romania as a JICA short-term expert during 10-25 September, 2006.
Mission of this dispatch is to advise Romanian counterparts in "JICA Project on theSeismic Risk Reduction for Buildings in Romania (2002-2007)" for seismic risk
evaluation and retrofitting methods for buildings.
http://www.utcb.ro/cnrrs_en/cnrrs.html
http://project.jica.go.jp/romania/7241011E0/english/index.html
Taiki SAITOChief Research Engineer, IISEE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[7] ASC 2006 is coming soon!
The ASC (Asian Seismological Commission) General Assembly and symposium onEarthquake and Tsunami Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation will be held inBangkok, Thailand during 6-10, November(http://www.asc1996.netfirms.com/asc2006/index.htm).
Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi and I (T. Hara) are going to attend this meeting. He will give apresentation whose title is "RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF IISEE TRAININGCOURSES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TARGETED ON MITIGATION OF
DISASTERS DUE TO EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS." I will give a talk whose title
is "IISEE EARTHQUAKE CATALOG OF CMT, AFTERSHOCKS, AND RUPTURE
MODELS." The authors of both presentations are IISEE staff members.
We are looking forward to attending this meeting to exchange information onearthquake and tsunami disaster preparedness and mitigation in Asian countries. Also,we expect we will see many IISEE ex-participants who are actively working andstudying in the fields of seismology and earthquake engineering. Let's see each other inBangkok soon.
Tatsuhiko HARA
Chief Research Scientist, IISEE==========================================================******************************************************
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