Welcome by Professor Ralph Archuleta

Plenary Session 1: Recent Significant Earthquakes

Hiroshi Kawase: Strong Motion Characteristics and Their Damage Impact to Structures during the Off Pacific Ocean, Tohoku Earthquake of March 11, 2011

Yefei Ren: Recent Experience and Practice for Strong Motion Observation in China

Plenary Session 2: Site Response Modeling Using Borehole Data

Youssef Hashash: Enhancing Site Response Modeling through Downhole Array Recordings

Asli Kurtulus: Geotechnical Arrays Recently Deployed in Istanbul

Steven Kramer: Site Response Modeling in Liquefiable Soil Profiles

Fabian Bonilla: The Challenge of Nonlinear Site Response: Field Data Observations and Numerical Simulations

Coffee Breaks

Poster Session 1: Recent Significant Earthquakes
Poster Session 2: Site Response Theory and Modeling