Workshops

Workshops will comprise invited lectures on selected topics, as well as round table discussions coordinated by leading international experts. Individual papers can be submitted according to the general procedure of the Conference.

Three special workshops will be organized during the conference, each on one of the following topics:

1. Large scale facilities, geotechnical strong motion arrays and experimental sites
Coordinator Ahmed Elgamal / University of California at Davis, USA
2. Geotechnical Earthquake engineering related to monuments and historical centres
Coordinator Christos Tsatsanifos / Pangaea Consultants Engineers, Greece
3. Recent advances in codes (round table discussion)
Coordinator Alain Pecker / Geodynamique et Structures, France
4. How can earthquake geotechnical engineering contribute to safer design of structures to resist earthquakes?
Coordinator Pedro Seco e Pinto / National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC), Portugal

The summary of Workshop 3: Recent advances in codes (prepared by A. Pecker) and the invited presentations to WS3 (by E. Faccioli, J. Bray, N. Yoshida and M. Pender) could be downloaded here. )