***************************************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.35

19 December 2008******************************************************************************************+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Contents+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1. Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year
2. 7-th General Assembly of Asian Seismological Commission & 2008 Fall
Meeting of Seismological Society of Japan (ASC2008)
3. Pre-Symposium Training Course of ASC2008 held in IISEE
4. IISEE Alumni Meeting was held in Tsukuba+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++===================================================================[1] Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year
Only two weeks left till the New Year, and now is the time to reflect year 2008.
Again this year many disastrous earthquakes occurred in many parts of theworld including the Sichuan Earthquake in China. Let's do our best to reduce
earthquake damages next year. Please find the attached group photo that shows
you all the IISEE staff members. Dr. Mukai, research engineer, joined us after Dr.
Tamura passed away. Research support staff and secretaries joining IISEE inthis year are as follows; Mr. Mizutani, Ms.Nishizawa and Ms. Satou. We
sincerely appreciate your continuing support for IISEE. We wish the New Yearwill be the happiest and best for you.
Nobuo HURUKAWA & all IISEE staff members

Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes
for
The New Year
2008/2009IISEEDr.Nobuo Hurukawa
Director

Administration Division
Mr.SAKURAZAWA,S
Ms.ISOGAI,A
Mr.KONISHI,K
Research Engineers
Dr.SAITO,T
Dr.KOYAMA,S
Dr.KASHIMA,T
Dr.MUKAI,T
Research Seismologists
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 Coodinator
Ms.IIZUKA,M
Secretaries
Ms.NISHIZAWA,E
Ms.NARUSHIMA,A
Ms.SATOU,A
Mr.NISHIMURA,N
Ms.KATAYAMA,J
Mr.Ryu,K
Ms.SUZUKI,T
Ms.FUKUMURA,Y Ms.TAKIKAWA,C
Ms.KITAGAWA,K
Ms.UEMATSU,I
Mr.MIZUTANI,H

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] 7-th General Assembly of Asian Seismological Commission & 2008 Fall
Meeting of Seismological Society of Japan (ASC2008)
7-th General Assembly of Asian Seismological Commission (ASC) was held fromNov. 24 to 28, 2008, at Tsukuba International Congress Center together with 2008
Fall Meeting of Seismological Society of Japan (SSJ) by the collaboration of ASCand SSJ. About 820 researchers from about 40 countries and a region haveparticipated in these conferences and about 720 presentations were performed.
About 40 ex-participants of IISEE's training courses were found among them.
IISEE has contributed ASC2008 holding a pre-symposium training course fromNov. 23 to Nov. 24, 2008 and performing an exhibition of booth. IISEE alumni
meeting was held also during the conference period.
Toshiaki YOKOI
Chief Research Scientist, IISEE---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[3] Pre-Symposium Training Course of ASC2008 held in IISEEA short training course on "Microtremor Array Exploration Technique" was heldin Nov.23-24, 2008, preceding to 7-th General Assembly of Asian SeismologicalCommission (Nov. 25-27, 2008) by the cooperation of Seismological Society ofJapan (SSJ) and International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake
Engineering (IISEE), Building Research Institute, Japan. Especially, SSJ provide
them a full financial support for travel, stay and registration fees. Thirteen
participants from Armenia, Bhutan, Egypt, Georgia, India, Indonesia,Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Nepal, Palestine, Uzbekistan and Yemen have learned
about Spatial Autocorrelation Method that is becoming popular today in thesociety of Earthquake Engineering for microzonation and site-specific studies.
Eight of them are ex-participants of IISEE's training courses. Besides of thepresentation materials for lectures, IISEE provided them a free UNIX emulator
on Windows (Cygwin), Fortran programs for the SPAC analyses and the sample
data sets. IISEE will hold similar short training courses not only in Tsukuba but
also on Internet meeting services.
Toshiaki YOKOI
Chief Research Scientist, IISEE

(Toshiaki Yokoi)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------[4] IISEE Alumni Meeting was held in Tsukuba
The IISEE Alumni Meeting was held in the evening of the 26th of the last month
during the 7th General Assembly of Asian Seismological Commission (ASC) andSeismological Society of Japan, 2008 Fall meeting in Tsukuba, Japan.21
ex-participants, 8 IISEE training lecturers, and 7 IISEE staff members
participated in this alumni meeting. First, Dr. Harsh Gupta gave a speech. Then,in the middle of the meeting, each attendee introduced him (or her) self,respectively. All of the attendees enjoyed this meeting. The next ASC General
Assembly is going to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2010.
Let us see each other in Hanoi in 2010.
Tatsuhiko HARA
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