Month: October 2012

New speaker and keynote talk announcement

We are delighted to announce that Professor Timothy Warburton (Rice University) will be joining the PASI team of instructors. Prof. Warburton will offer a module on discontinuous Galerkin models of shallow-water phenomena (originally scheduled to be covered by Prof. Frank Giraldo of the Naval Postgraduate School, who had to cancel his participation, with regrets). Prof. Warburton […]

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Catalan awarded grant to develop tsunami forecast database

Tsunamis are among the most significant large-scale hazards to which many coastal communities  around the world are exposed, and Chile is no exception. In fact, the country’s high seismicity  along the subduction zone between the Nazca and Sudamerican plates has triggered many tsunami events since records are kept. Its long stretch of coast is also […]

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Deadline extended

Applications for travel funding from US participants will continue to be received until October 30, 2012. However, applications already received are under review, and travel grants will begin to be awarded to the best applicants. Latin American participants can still submit applications, and their deadline is November 15, 2012. Self-funded participants are welcome and can […]