By Dr. Tatsuhiko Hara, Chief Research Scientist, IISEE

Dr. Shibazaki and I attended the 2013 AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting,
which was held between December 9 and 13 in San Francisco, California, USA.

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By Dr. Masanori Tani, Research Engineer, IISEE

I visited Managua, Nicaragua to conduct the terminal evaluation on the JICA’s technical
cooperation for “Improvement of the Earthquake-Resistant Housing Construction
Technology in Nicaragua” as an expert of earthquake engineering from November 14
to 23 in 2013.
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By Dr. Masanori Tani, Research Engineer, IISEE

The 15th Japan-Korea-Taiwan Joint Seminar on Earthquake Engineering for Building
Structures (SEEBUS) was held in National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering
(NCREE), Taipei, Taiwan from November 28 to 29 in 2013.

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By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEE

The 11th SEGJ International Symposium - Geophysics for establishing sustainable secure
society - was held by Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Japan (SEGJ), Nov. 18-21
in Yokohama City, Japan.

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It is a great honor for IISEE to announce the news that ex-participants took
doctoral degrees. We wish their work continued success.

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The 19th Global Seismological Observation Training Course in IISEE will take place for about
2 months from January 21 to March 14 in 2014.

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By Ms. Yoriko Iiba, Head of IISEE Administration Division

Please go to our Synopsis Database web page on IISEE website. You can access to the New
synopses of the 2012-2013 participants’ master theses.

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