The second lecture in the Tibetan Plateau Science Forum will be held this Saturday, inviting world acknowledged geologist Paul Tapponnier to share his study of the severe earthquake in Nepal, 1934. The　lecture will be chaired by CAS academician Prof. YAO Tandong. Your participation and involvement in the discussion are warmly welcome!

Who: Prof. Paul TAPPONNIER 

Paul TAPPONNIER is one of the most distinguished scientists of his generation in the field of geotectonics. He has been awarded, among other honors, the Alfred Wegener Medal of the European Union of Geosciences, the Charles Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London, and the Friendship Medal of the People’s Republic of China. He is member of both the French and US National Academy of Sciences. He was elected Einstein Lecturer of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. His research interests include continental dynamics and tectonics, particularly in Asia and the Mediterranean, specifically as active faulting and seismotectonics, earthquake hazard assessment, quantitative geomorphology, rock mechanics and rock deformation physics.

 

What to report: Discovering the Surface Rupture of the Mw ≈ 8.1, 1934, Bihar Nepal earthquake

Where: meeting room on the 2nd floor of ITP office building ((No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing)

When: 10.00 am-12.00 pm, Saturday, September 17, 2011

Welcome to the forum!