2024 JSAS Best Paper Award from Japanese Society of Applied Statistics

May. 9, 2024

The joint paper by Project Assistant Professor Tokuda and Associate Professor Nagao, titled "Observation Point Selection for Low-Frequency Earthquake Detection via Multiple Clustering Based on a Mixture of Wishart Models," published in the special issue "Machine Learning and Its Applications" of the Journal of Japanese Society of Applied Statistics, has received the "JSAS Best Paper Award". The award ceremony was held at the Applied Statistics Conference at Kyushu University.

Visiting Caltech

Dec. 4–8, 2023

Prof. Nagao and Drs. Tokuda, Gerardo Mendo, Kato, and Church visited the California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena, California. During their one-week stay, they held meetings with the Caltech members, including Dr. Zachary Ross and Professor Emeritus Hiroo Kanamori, to introduce each other's research and discuss future collaboration. Additionally, on the final day, Prof. Nagao gave a one-hour lecture.

Recruitment Information for Project Researcher of STAR-E Project and CREST

Sep. 7, 2021

Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo is seeking project researchers who promote MEXT STAR-E Project and JST CREST (deadline of application: Dec. 24, 2021, 5 p.m. in JST/UTC+9). Please refer to the links below for details.

• STAR-E Project Researcher (3 persons)
• CREST Researcher (in Japanese) (1 person)

Accepted for STAR-E Project by MEXT

Jun. 18, 2021

The research subject investigated by Prof. Hiromichi Nagao has been accepted for STAR-E (Seismology TowArd Research innovation with data of Earthquake) Project by MEXT. Under the STAR-E project, we will work on integration researches of information science and seismology.
情報科学を活用した地震調査研究プロジェクト（STAR-Eプロジェクト）の採択課題の決定について（in Japanese）