The 937th DANWAKAI (program)

All members concerned

 

                                  　　     Earthquake Research Institute

                                           　　　  The University of Tokyo

                                                                    　　　     Director

                                                 　         　    Kazushige Obara

 

              Announcement of the 937th DANWAKAI

 

(Danwakai: ERI Holds ”Danwakai”, a monthly meeting where its members

present their most recent academic and technical achievements, on a

Friday of every month. Danwakai is open to the public.)

 

Date:Friday,24 April 13:30-

Place:ERI Bldg.2, 5th floor, Conference room1

 

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 1.   13:30-13:45

Source properties of the 17 July 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami based on tide gauge records

* Mohammad Heidarzadeh, Kenji Satake

SUMMARY:

We talk about the landslide tsunami of 17 July 1998 Papua New Guinea

 2.   13:45-14:00

Large-scale quasi-dynamic earthquake cycle simulations with Hierarchical matrices method

* Makiko Ohtani, Kazuro Hirahara (Kyoto University)

 3.   14:00-14:15

Equivalence of the Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquake and the Edwards-Wilkinson interface

* Soumyajyoti Biswas (ERI), Purusattam Ray (Institute of Mathematical Science),

Bikas K. Chakrabarti (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

SUMMARY:

We will discuss the equivalence between Edwards-Wilkinson interface model anda version of the

Burridge-Knopoff earthquake model, where the friction is replaced by random pinning.

 4.   14:15-14:30

Dynamical and statistical properties on desiccation crack pattern

* Shin-ichi ITO, Satoshi YUKAWA (Osaka University)

SUMMARY:

We report the theoretical and experimental results of the investigation of the dynamical and

statistical properties on the desiccation crack pattern.

 

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