Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 7-12 September 2008
 
European Seismological Commission ESC 2008, 31st General Assembly
 
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About the scientific programme

The scientific programme consists of 12 thematic areas covering a broad spectrum of the seismological research and applications. Each thematic area includes one or more sessions.

Totally there are 29 different sessions all of which are open for oral and poster presentations. One of them (INFRA-1) is only for invited oral presentations related to the NERIES project but the INFRA-2 is free for poster presentations.

Please follow the instructions on how to prepare your abstract and/or short paper and on how to submit it.

The Scientific Committee of the ESC08 consists of the conveners and co-conveners of the sessions as well as of the members of the ESC Executive Committee who worked closely with the LOC to organize the scientific programme.

The role of the Scientific Committee members is to review the abstracts and short papers. Normally abstracts and short-papers are expected to be generally accepted unless they are not prepared according to the format and or/ their content is beyond the scopes of the ESC General Assembly.

The scientific programme will also include open discussions and round-table discussions, as well as a pre-conference Young Scientists Training Course (YSTC) under the title “Active Tectonics and Seismicity”.

Information about these activities will be provided soon.

The ESC08 LOC

The main thematic areas are identified as follows:

1. Seismicity of the European-Mediterranean Region
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
SEMR-1-PATTERNS Seismicity patterns and seismic cycle behavior

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M. Radulian
A. Bala
I. Latoussakis
SEMR-2-HISTOR Building up the European-Mediterranean Archive of Historical Earthquake Data

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M. Stucchi
G. Gruenthal
R. Tatevossian
R. Musson
SEMR-3-EASTERN Structure, dynamics and evolution of the lithosphere and asthenosphere of the Eastern Mediterranean region

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S. Lebedev
S. Pavlides
T. Meier

2. Data Acquisition, Theory & Interpretation
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
ACQUIS-1-ARRAY Array Seismology in Europe-Status and Perspectives

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J. Schweitzer
F. Krueger
ACQUIS -2-BROAD Near Real Time Processing Procedures in Modern Broadband Seismic Networks at National and Regional Level

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N. Melis
M. Olivieri
ACQUIS -3-PROPAG Theory of wave propagation and new techniques of data processing

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P. Malischewsky
F. Krueger
I. Oprsal
ACQUIS - 4 - SEISMOGR The 20th century strong Euro-Mediterranean earthquakes from historical seismograms

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J. Batllo
G. Ferrari

3. Physics of the Earthquake Source
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
PHYS-1- FRACTURE Fracture and Earthquake Physics

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F. Vallianatos
I. Main
PHYS-2 - SOURCE Natural and induced earthquakes: Double Couple and non-Double Couple source mechanisms

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J. Sileny
B. Julian
PHYS-3-INDUCED Fluid-injection induced seismicity - observations and modeling

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T. Fischer
T. Dahm
S. Hainzl
PHYS-4-PHYS Physics of seismicity: field, laboratory and theoretical studies.

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G. Sobolev
V. Karakostas

4. Structure of the Earth’s Interior
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
STRUCT-1-MOHO Surveys of Europe’s seismic structure: Moho, maps and models

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M. Grad
D. Booth
T. Tiira

5. Earthquake Early Warning
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
EWS-1 Earthquake Early Warning Systems and Methodologies

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J. Zschau
P. Gasparini
G. Papadopoulos
K. Fleming

6. Earthquake Prediction Research
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
PRED-1 Earthquake predictability: European and Worldwide testing tools & applications.

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G. Purcaru
E. Papadimitriou
A. Zavyalov
PRED-2 Advances in earthquake forecasting and time-dependent hazard assessment

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J. Woessner
A. Lombardi
W. Marzocchi

7. Engineering Seismology & Earthquake Engineering
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
ENGIN-1-SCENARIOS Modeling Seismic Scenarios for Engineering Applications

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G. Zonno
A. Carvalho
R. Rotondi
M. Jimenez
ENGIN-2-TECTONO Tectonics, geodesy, microsesismicity: how do they contribute to seismic hazard assessment?

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J. Papoulia
D. Slejko
ENGIN-3-SITE/EFFECT Site effect investigations at controlled sites, including city-soil-structure interaction.

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S. Parolai
M. Mucciarelli
A. Ansal
ENGIN-4-RELERM ESC-UNESCO/RELEMR session - seismological observations, hazard and risk estimation in the Mediterranean basin

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R. Hofstetter
H. Al-Nimry
M. Hamdache
P. Gulkan

8. Non-instrumental seismology: Methods, Results, Evaluation
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
NONINS-1- HIST Twenty years of historical seismology in the ESC: Review and state-of-the-art of studies and methods

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P. Albini
C. Hammerl
NONINS-2-DEFORM Large Earthquakes, Active Deformation and Coastal uplift: data and modelling.

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S. Stiros
M. Meghraoui
NONINS-3-ARCHAEO Methods to parameterize archaeoseismological events and case studies

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F. Galadini
S. Stiros
K. Hinzen
NONINS-4-INTENSITY Internet and Field Collection of Macroseismic Intensity Data

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V. Kouskouna
R. Musson
I. Cecic
NONINS-5-GEOL Earthquakes in the Geological Files

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S. Pavlides
R. Caputo
V. Trifonov

9. Tsunamis
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
TSUN-1 Tsunami Early Warning Systems and Tsunami Risk Mitigation in the European-Mediterranean Region

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S. Tinti
G. Papadopoulos
J. Miranda
A. Cevdet Yalciner

10. Recent Significant Earthquakes
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
SIGNIF-1 Recent significant earthquakes worldwide and in the European-Mediterranean region

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P. Burton
C. Makropoulos
G. Papadopoulos
V. Karastathis

11. Seismological Research Infrastructure
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
INFRA-1 Network of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology (NERIES). (Oral Session, invited speakers only).

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D. Giardini
T. van Eck
R. Bossu
S. Wiemer
INFRA-2 Network of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology (NERIES). (Poster session).

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D. Giardini
T. van Eck
R. Bossu
S. Wiemer

12. Earthquakes, Civil Protection & Society
Session CodeSession TitleSession Convenors
CIVIL-1-LOSS Strong earthquake impact databases and expected loss estimation in “emergency” mode

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N. Frolova
J. Bonnin
CIVIL-2-RISK Risk and Risk Behavior: Do we learn from past disasters?

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M. Gisler
A. Fokaefs

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR ESC CONVENERS

1. Finalising the Scientific Programme

Provide the LOC with an estimate of the time in days you expect your session to last.

Provide the LOC with the reference numbers of the sessions, which you do not wish to overlap with the one you are convening, to avoid conflicts of subject/speakers/chairpersons.

The LOC is assuming that the first convener is the contact convener, and therefore the LOC will liase with them regarding the session. If you are a first convener and would like one of the co-conveners to act as a point of contact, please inform the co-convener and provide the LOC with contact details immediately.

If you are the first convener, please provide the LOC with the general contact information (points 1-11 above) regarding your co-conveners or make sure they have forwarded the information to the LOC.

If any of the contact information changes before the General Assembly, you must inform the LOC immediately.

2. Advertising the Scientific Programme

You should advertise your session by contacting possible interested colleagues as soon as you are sent the Second Circular by the LOC.

You should provide people who are interested in contributing to the session the abstract and paper format requirements in case they have not received the Second Circular.

You can have one or two invited talk(s) per session. The invited talk does not imply any financial assistance either from ESC or LOC.

2.1. Promoting your session

As a session convener, you must solicit abstract submission for your session. Therefore, you are to promote it to all interested parties, including students, through newsletters, links from related web site, word-of-mouth, etc.

The number of abstracts submitted will determine the distribution of oral and poster papers for your session (except for the poster-only SC Open sessions). Each convener will make the final decision about the acceptance of oral and poster presentations. They may suggest a different session for the paper

2.2. Invited Authors

You may want to invite key authors to submit abstracts to your session. Invited status must be reserved for individuals who will add an extraordinary element to a session.

You may also want to consider recognizing outstanding students by inviting them to submit an abstract to your session. As a guideline, each session should have no more than 2 invited authors. Consult with the LOC if you need additional guidance. Please note that invited authors must pay the registration fee.

2.3. Abstract & Short Paper Submission

The abstracts must be submitted to the ESC General Assembly LOC and to the main convener of the session no later than the deadline established by the LOC.

Sending a copy to the co-convenors of the session is strongly recommended and will be appreciated.

The first (or contact) convener should collect the copies from the co-conveners and to cross-check that he/she has collected all the abstracts submitted to the session.

The same procedure should be followed for the short papers collection.

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