Theoretical and numerical studies 
of seismic wave propagation

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Date: 15 and 16 May 1997
Place: The second meeting room, Earthquake Research Institute

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May 15 (Thus.)

13:00 Kiyoshi Yomogida "Opening remarks"

13:05 Kazuki Koketsu and Takashi Furumura
         "3-D numerical simulations of strong motions for the Kobe earthquake"

13:30 Robert Geller
         "Error estimation of synthetic seismograms: 
         Derivation of a new operator"

13:55 Hideki Saito
         "Seismic tomography for shallow subsurface exploration: Modeling first          
         arrival seismic rays and traveltimes"

14:20 Ken Hatayama and Hiroyuki Fujiwara
         "A method to evaluate the excitation of secondary surface waves 
         in a three-dimensional sedimentary basin"
break

15:00 Jun Kawahara
         "Seismic scattering by cracks with various types of the internal status"

15:25 Hiroaki Niitsuma and Katsuo Tanaka
         "Detection of traveltime delay caused by inflation of single artificial fracture"

15:50 Toshiaki Yokoi
         "Indirect boundary element method with infinitely spread surface 
         for three-dimensional Problem"

16:15 Nozomi Takeuchi
         "Derivation of a new operator for global earth models 
         and its application for synthetic seismograms"
break

16:55 Makoto Nasu
         "Relation between strong motion and topography"

17:20 Kazuo Hayashi and Hitoshi Seki
         "Dynamic response of fluid within a reservoir crack 
         in a rock mass connected to a Wellbore"

17:45 B.L.N. Kennett
         "Guided Waves in 2- and 3-dimensional structures"

18:20 informal reception

May 16 (Fri.)

 9:30 Yoshiaki Hisada
         "On singular points of Green's functions in layered media"

 9:55 Phil Cummins
         "DSM Synthetic Seismograms"

10:20 Taro Okamoto
         "2.5D FDM simulation of near field seismic waves 
         from shallow subduction zone earthquake"

10:45 Toshiki Watanabe and Yuzuru Ashida
         "A numerical simulation on fluctuation and breakage 
         of heterogeneous materials caused by detonative loading"
break

11:25 Tomotaka Iwata, Haruko Sekiguchi, Arben Pitarka, Katuhiro Kamae
            and Kojiro Irikura
         "Estimation of strong ground motions in the source area 
         during the 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake"

11:50 Haruo Sato
         "Coda excitation in a depth dependent velocity structure: 
         Single back scattering model"

12:15 Osamu Yoshioka
         "Prediction analysis of train-induced ground vibrations 
         using the equivalent excitation force"
lunch

13:30 Takashi Miyatake and Tomohiro Inoue
         "3-D simulation of near-field ground motion"

13:55 Hitoshi Mikada
         "Adaption of seismic reflection profiling to volcanic structural analyses 
         -An attempt at Kirishima Volcanoes"

14:20 Hiroshi Takenaka
         "A time-domain approach for 2.5-D elastic-wave computation 
         -Reflection between 2.5-D wavefields and moving-source solutions-"
break

15:00 Kazuhiko Tezuka
         "Fast Stonely wave modeling and its application for permeable fracture evaluation"

15:25 Kiyoshi Yomogida
         "Application of the boundary integral method for scattering of seismic waves"

15:50 Kazuki Koketsu "Closing remarks"

Organized by
   Kiyoshi Yomogida
            yomo@sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp Tel: 0824-24-7479
   Kazuki Koketsu