Workshop Program

(All events will be held in Clark Laboratory, Room 507, Quissett Campus, WHOI)

Sunday, October 29, 2006

6:00 PM: Ice-breaker reception (setting up posters)

Monday, October 30, 2006

8:00 AM: Continental breakfast (setting up posters)

8:30 AM: Welcome, introduction, and logistics

8:45 AM: Eric L. Geist, The Physics of Tsunami Generation: Recent Advances and Persistent Problems (each keynote talk is 35 min, followed by 10 min. discussion)

9:30 AM: Philip L.-F. Liu, Numerical Simulations of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami - Runup and Inundation

10:15 AM: Coffee/tea break

10:30 AM: Paul M. Whitmore, Tsunami Warning System Challenges

11:15 AM: Yuichiro Tanioka, Generation of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Tsunami and its Implication

12:00 noon: Lunch

1:00 PM: Vasily Titov, Developing Real-time Tsunami Forecast for US Coasts

1:45 PM: Emile A. Okal, Tsunami Processes: Reflections and Prospects from Sumatra and Other Events

2:30 PM: Contributed short presentations

3:15 PM: Coffee/tea break

3:30 PM Contributed short presentations (continued)

4:30 PM: Preliminary discussion sessions

6:00 PM: Dinner

7:00 PM: Posters

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

8:00 AM: Continental breakfast

8:30 AM: Plenary/group discussion sessions

11:30 AM: Workshop adjourns (taking down posters)