Landslide Hazard and Risk Assessment in India: 2-day symposium related to 4 PhD defences

Draft programme for the PhD defences and related symposium at ITC, University of Twente, the Netherlands, 4 and 5 July 2011.

Since 2006 ITC has a research collaboration with the Geological Survey of India (GSI) and the National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSC) on the development of methods for landslide hazard and risk assessment in India. Under this agreement 4 Indian PhD researchers have now completed their PhD: Saibal Ghosh and Pankaj Jaiswal (GSI), Tapas Martha (NRSC) and Iswar Das (IIRS). Their defences will take place on 4 and 5 July. Around their public defences, ITC organizes a short symposium under the UNU-ITC School for Disaster Geo-information Management, in relation with the EU FP7 Safeland project, and the EU FP7 Marie Curie ITN network “CHANGES”. The Safeland project is a large EU FP7 landslide project, which started in May 2009 under the leadership of NGI (Norway), and comprises of 25 partners. It is aimed at developing generic quantitative risk assessment and management tools and strategies for landslides in Europe.
The admission to the symposium is free.
The preliminary programme is given below:

Monday 4 July
10.00 - 10.30 Registration and coffee
10.30 - 10.45 Opening and introduction by Dr. Cees van Westen
10.45 - 11.05 Presentation Dr. Vinod Kumar (NRSC, India)
11.05 - 11.25 Presentation Dr. K. Ayyasami (GSI, India): Landslides, geochemistry and mining activity in hilly areas of Peninsular India
11.25 - 11.45 Presentation Dr. P.K. Champati Ray (IIRS, India)
11.45 - 12.05 Presentation Prof. Leonardo Cascini (University of Salerno, Italy)
12.05 - 12.25 Presentation Prof. Tang Chuan (CDUT, China
Lunch
13.30 - 13.45 Presentation by Tapas Martha: Detection of Landslides by Object-Oriented Image Analysis
13.45 - 14.30 Defence Tapas Martha
14.30 - 15.00 PhD awarding ceremony
Coffee break
15.30 - 15.45 Presentation Pankaj Jaiswal: Landslide risk quantification along transportation corridors based on historical information
15.45 - 16.30 Defence Pankaj Jaiswal
16.30 - 17.00 PhD awarding ceremony
17.00 - 18.00 Reception
19.00 - 21.00 Dinner (Het Paradijs)


Tuesday 5 July
09.00 - 09.20 Presentation Dr. Farrokh Nadim (NGI, Norway)
09.20 - 09.40 Presentation Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff (UNIL, Switzerland()
09.40 - 10.10 Presentation t.b.d.
10.10 - 10.30 Presentation Dr Paola Reichenbach (CNR, Italy)
Coffee break
11.00 - 11.20 Presentation Prof. David Petley (Durham University, UK)
11.20 - 11.40 Presentation Dr. Miet van den Eeckhaut (JRC-EU, Italy)
11.40 - 12.10 Presentation t.b.d.
12.10 - 12.30 Presentation Andreas Gunther (BGR, Germany)
Lunch
13.30 - 13.45 Presentation by Saibal Ghosh: Knowledge-Guided Empirical Prediction of Landslide Hazard
13.45 - 14.30 Defence Saibal Ghosh
14.30 - 15.00 PhD awarding ceremony
Coffee break
15.30 - 15.45 Presentation Iswar Das: Spatial statistical modelling for assessing landslide hazard and vulnerability
15.45 - 16.30 Defence Iswar Das
16.30 - 17.00 PhD awarding ceremony
17.00 - 18.00 Reception


The titles of the PhD theses are:

Saibal Ghosh: Knowledge-guided empirical prediction of landslide hazard
Pankaj Jaiswal: Landslide risk quantification along transportation corridors based on historical information
Tapas Martha: Detection of landslides by object-oriented image analysis
Iswar Das: Spatial statistical modeling for assessing landsldie hazard and vulnerability

More information on the activities of the UNU-ITC School for Disaster Geo-Information Management in the field of landslide hazard and risk can be found here.

More information: Dr. C.J. van Westen

Logistic support: Saskia Tempelman
Timesheet
Event starts: Monday 04 July 2011 at 10:30
Event ends: Tuesday 05 July 2011 at 18:00
Venue: ITC Auditorium
Organized by: UNU-DGIM
City where event takes place: Enschede
Country where event takes place: Netherlands