Nov.25-27, 2025
International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Research of Information Science and Seismology (IWIRISS) 2025
International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Research of Information Science and Seismology (IWIRISS) 2025 was held over three days at the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, with 31 oral presentations from five countries and nine poster presentations. Over 50 researchers from Japan and overseas participated, and there was lively face-to-face discussion and international exchange, concluding on a high note.
May 25-30, 2025
JpGU2025
We exhibited at JpGU2025, a hybrid of online and Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall, as the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo. Leaflets and Newsletters were placed in the booth to introduce the project.
We held the oral and poster sessions [S-TT43] entitled Seismic Big Data Analysis Based on the State-of-the-Art of Bayesian Statistics. More than 120 people attended the event.
And also Union Session: U-13 "AI Earth and Planetary Science" and GeoSciAI2025, an AI modeling contest in the field of Earth and planetary science data, were held.
Mar. 26, 2025
"Let's take a look at the lab in UTokyo" Program
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We had a lecture titled "Lecture on the Use of AI Technology
in Earthquake Research".
Eighty high school students participated.In addition to lectures on cutting-edge research on "Information x Earthquake," the seminar introduced current projects and how to become a researcher in the future.
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at Seminer room in ERI
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Mar.19-28, 2025
ERI Spring School
Research Experience Program in Earthquake Research Institute (Spring 2025) was held and a student participated in Nagao & Ito Laboratory.
Under the theme of "Earthquake Research Using Artificial Intelligence," the program included a lecture on state-of-the-art earthquake research using artificial intelligence in Japan and abroad, and a demonstration and experience of seismic picking from continuous earthquake waveform data using deep learning models.
at T31 room in ERI
Jan.8, 2025
Welcome Indonesian students
Graduate students and students from Universitas Gadjah Mada(UGM) visited the ERI in a program of Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics(BMKG). As part of the program, lectures and discussions on the latest earthquake research were held at the Nagao and Ito Lab. The students asked active questions, and a variety of discussions were held on topics such as the use of AI and the state of earthquake observation in the country.
Dec.9-13, 2024
AGU24 Annual Meeting
American Geophysical Union(AGU)24 Annual Meeting was held in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Associate Professor Nagao and Assistant Professor Tokuda gave oral presentations, and Project Researcher Mendo, Project Researcher Kato, and Student Kusui gave poster presentations. The Earthquake Research Institute also exhibited a booth and distributed the SYNTHA-Seis newsletter (English version) to spread awareness of this project.
Oct.21-23, 2024
The 2024 SSJ Fall Meeting
A special session titled "S21 Acceleration of Earthquake Research through Integration with Information Science" was held at the 2024 Autumn Meeting of the Seismological Society of Japan held at Niigata Toki Messe Convention Center.
From our project, Dr. Tomoki Tokuda and Dr. Shinya Kato gave oral presentations, and Dr. Gerardo Mendo and Mr. Kusui gave poster presentations.
Sep.7-Dec.19, 2024
Collaboration with Caltech
Sep.1-5, 2024
JFSSA2024
We held the session "4BPM1 " in JFSSA2024 at Tokyo University of Science.
Dr.Tokuda had the presentation in oral.
Aug. 7-9, 2024
ERI Summer School
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Research Experience Program in Earthquake Research Institute (Summer 2024) was held and one student participated in Nagao & Ito Laboratory.
Under the theme of "Earthquake Research Using Artificial Intelligence," the program included a lecture on state-of-the-art earthquake research using artificial intelligence in Japan and abroad, and a demonstration and experience of seismic picking from continuous earthquake waveform data using deep learning models.
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at T31 room in ERI
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Jun. 25, 2024
Welcome Ms.Tamama
Ms.Tamama is a doctoral student of California Institute of Technology Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences Seismological Laboratory came to Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo. We had good discussions and good conversations.
May 26-27, 2024
JpGU2024
We exhibited at JpGU2024, a hybrid of online and Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall, as the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo. Leaflets and Newsletters were placed in the booth to introduce the project.
We held the oral and poster sessions [S-TT38] entitled Seismic Big Data Analysis Based on the State-of-the-Art of Bayesian Statistics. More than 120 people attended the event.
And also Union Session: U-12 "AI Earth and Planetary Science" and GeoSciAI2024, an AI modeling contest in the field of Earth and planetary science data, were held. One Grand Prize winner, two Excellence Award winners, and one Special Award winner (JpGU Award and JSAI Award, respectively) were announced and Shinya Kato of this project won the Grand Prize.
Apr. 3-22, 2024
Caltech Invitation
Dr. Zachary Ross and two students from California Institute of Technology Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences Seismological Laboratory stayed at Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo.
Face-to-face discussions, roundtable discussions, and lectures were held with researchers from each of the many fields of earthquake research. The hybrid lectures were attended by a large audience.
Mar. 25, 2024
"Let's take a look at the lab in UTokyo" Program
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We had a lecture titled "Lecture on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Earthquake Research".
Fifty high school students participated.
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at Seminer room in ERI
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Mar.15-29, 2024
ERI Spring School
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Research Experience Program in Earthquake Research Institute (Spring 2024) was held and three student participated in Nagao & Ito Laboratory.
Under the theme of "Earthquake Research Using Artificial Intelligence," the program included a lecture on state-of-the-art earthquake research using artificial intelligence in Japan and abroad, and a demonstration and experience of seismic picking from continuous earthquake waveform data using deep learning models.
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at T31 room in ERI
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Dec.11-15, 2023
AGU Fall meeting 2023
At AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2023 held in San Francisco, Researcher Dr.Tokuda, De.Mendo, and Dr.Kato gave poster presentations.
Dec.4-8, 2023
Visiting Caltech
Prof. Nagao and his lab members visited the California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena, California, during their one-week stay. We had 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, Prof. Nagao gave a one-hour lecture on the final day.
Oct.31-Nov.2, 2023
The 2023 SSJ Fall Meeting
A special session titled "S21 Acceleration of Earthquake Research through Integration with Information Science" was held at the 2023 Autumn Meeting of the Seismological Society of Japan held at Pacifico Yokohama.
From our project, Associate Professor Masatoshi Imaizumi gave an invited lecture. Dr. Kosuke Morikawa and Dr. Tomoki Tokuda gave oral presentations, and Dr. Gerardo Mendo and Dr. Shinya Kato gave poster presentations.
Sep.21, 2023
In the Media (Mainichi Shimbun)
Dr.Nagao's article appeared in the "Kagaku no Mori" page of the Mainichi Shimbun morning edition dated 9/21.
Sep.12-19, 2023
ERI Summer School
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Research Experience Program in Earthquake Research Institute (Summer 2023) was held and one student participated in Nagao & Ito Laboratory.
Under the theme of "Earthquake Research Using Artificial Intelligence," the program included a lecture on state-of-the-art earthquake research using artificial intelligence in Japan and abroad, and a demonstration and experience of seismic picking from continuous earthquake waveform data using deep learning models.
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at T31 room in ERI
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Sep.3-7, 2023
JFSSA2023
We held the session "4BPM1 " in JFSSA2023 at Kyoto University.
Dr.Tokuda and Dr.Kato had presentations in oral.
Sep.1, 2023
In the Media (NHK)
Our laboratory's research was introduced on NHK's "Cartoonist Ienaga's Super-Definition of Complex Society" broadcast on September 1, 2023.
Aug.18, 2023
In the Media (Nihon Keizai Shimbun)
Dr.Nagao's article appeared in the "Science Frontier" page of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Aug.1, 2023
SYNTHA-Seis research in "Naifuru"
Dr.Nagao's research article was appeared in "Naifuru No.134", the outreach magazine of the Seismological Society of Japan.
Please visit the SSJ's web page.(Japanese only)
https://www.zisin.jp/publications/pdf/nf-vol134.pdf
Jun. 6-9, 2023
JSAI2023
At the 37th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificail Intelligence, we organized the session [OS-17] entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Earthquake Research".
Also Dr.Nagao presented in the joint session with JpGU [3J5-KS-22] entitled "New Developments in the Use of AI in Earth and Planetary Science".
May 21, 2023
JpGU2023
We exhibited at JpGU2023, a hybrid of online and Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall, as the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo.Leaflets and an explanatory staff were placed in the booth along with SYNTHA-Seis panels to introduce the project.
We held the oral and poster sessions [S-TT44] entitled Seismic Big Data Analysis Based on the State-of-the-Art of Bayesian Statistics.
Mar. 27, 2023
"Let's take a look at the lab in UTokyo" Program
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Discussions were held with high school students titled "Lecture on the Use
of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Earthquake Research".
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at Seminer room in ERI
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Sep. 13, 2022
Recruitment of project researchers
We are currently seeking to recruit our project members. For more details, please visit the website of Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo.
https://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/recruit/ 4-6 pages
This call for applications closes on December 2, 2022.
Mar. 8, 2022
Recruitment of project researchers
We are currently seeking to recruit our project members. For more details, please visit the website of Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo.
https://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/recruit/%e6%9c%80%e5%85%88%e7%ab%af%e6%83%85%e5%a0%b1%e5%9c%b0%e9%9c%87%e5%ad%a6%e7%a0%94%e7%a9%b6%e5%88%86%e9%87%8e%e3%80%80star-e%e3%83%97%e3%83%ad%e3%82%b8%e3%82%a7%e3%82%af%e3%83%88%e7%89%b9%e4%bb%bb-2/
This call for applications closes on July 29, 2022.
Nov. 17, 2021
SYNTHA-Seis was introduced in the Earthquake Research Division News
SYNTHA-Seis was introduced in the Autumn 2021 issue of the Earthquake Research Division News. Please visit the following URL for more details.
https://www.jishin.go.jp/main/herpnews/2021/aut/herpnews2021aut.pdf
