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It is our great pleasure to invite you to this specially coordinated event that combines two major international conferences on earthquake engineering: the 7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (7th CUEE) and the 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering (5th ICEE).
The 7th CUEE is an integral part of the research activities of the Center for Urban Earthquake Engineering (CUEE), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. CUEE is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan, as the Global Center of Excellence (COE) in the field of earthquake engineering. The CUEE conference has been held annually since fiscal year 2003 under two consecutive COE programs (FY 2003-2007 and FY 2008-2012). The current program aims not only to promote research to mitigate the seismic “mega” risk confronting vast, modern cities in earthquake regions throughout the world, but also to produce next-generation practitioners and researchers who will develop the new strategies and practices for seismic risk reduction. The conference will continue to stimulate intensive information dissemination and technology transfer, as well as to promote and maintain an international network directed toward nurturing young researchers through a sustained international collaborative effort.
The 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering (5th ICEE) is a core activity of the Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Earthquake Engineering Research (ANCER). The ICEE was conceived in 2000 when the China-US Millennium Symposium on Earthquake Engineering was held in Beijing, China. The China-US Millennium Symposium had the clear aim of creating a detailed research plan for US-China cooperative research in the field of earthquake engineering and hazard mitigation. In the year of 2001, based on the resolutions of the China-US Symposium, ANCER was founded by seven national earthquake engineering research centers, including the Korean Earthquake Engineering Research Center (Korea), Institute of Engineering Mechanics of China Seismological Bureau (China), Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (USA), Mid-America Earthquake Center (USA), Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (USA), Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University (Japan), and the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (Taiwan). The aim of ANCER is to make significant impact on current seismic hazard mitigation practice through cooperative research activities that can be best advanced on a center-to-center collaboration focused on areas of common interest.
The organizers of the 7th CUEE and 5th ICEE Conferences are excited by the opportunity to combine the two conferences. As a joint conference, a broad range of research topics will be showcased so that a new multilateral research platform that disseminates state-of-the-art information, illustrates new and emerging mitigation technologies, and promotes new education initiatives will be formed. The conference will also reinforce the commitment of CUEE and ANCER to promote international collaboration and facilitate the open exchange of state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice research findings with the aim of improving pre-earthquake preparedness, emergency response, and post-earthquake recovery. The organizers of the conference are committed to four major conference themes: 1) Vulnerability of megacities to seismic hazards; 2) Multihazard mitigation solutions; 3) Adoption of sensor, actuation, and control technologies within future mitigation strategies; 4) Education initiative aimed toward cultivating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural earthquake engineering curricula.