Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Earthquake Engineering Research Workshop

 August 13 -14

Venue: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Building at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States

After the great success of previous meetings held in Harbin, China, in 2002, Hawaii, US, in 2004, Jeju, Korea, in 2005, Hong King, China, in 2007, the 2009 ANCER Meeting will be held in Illinois, US. The main objective of this series of meetings is to provide a medium for integration of various approaches to studying and managing earthquake risk, with an emphasis on low and medium seismicity regions, The focus of the August 2009 workshop will be the encouragement of young researchers to present their own work and have an opportunity to receive feedback from international experts in a collegiate environment. From the technical perspective, the workshop main theme is learning from recent earthquakes, especially related to field reconnaissance and back-analysis. 

For more information, please visit the ANCER 2009 website.