7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering and the 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering; held in Tokyo, Japan, March 3-5, 2010.

该项目将支持11名美国科学家和工程师参加将于2010年3月3日至5日在日本东京举行的地震工程联合会议--第七届城市地震工程会议和第五届国际地震工程会议(第五届ICEE)会议--的联合会议。联合会议围绕四个主要主题组织：(1)特大城市对地震灾害的脆弱性，(2)多种灾害缓解方案，(3)在未来的减灾战略中采用新的传感器、驱动和控制技术，以及(4)旨在培养跨学科和跨文化地震工程课程的教育举措。这是一个重要的论坛，为交流减轻地震灾害领域的科学信息和思想提供了极好的机会。该项目将为美国研究人员提供一个展示技术论文以传播他们的研究成果的机会，与在地震工程领域工作的国际研究人员互动，并探索未来合作的机会。参与者将被挑选来代表广泛的研究人员，包括代表人数不足的群体。

This project will support the travel of 11 US scientists and engineers to participate in the joint conference combining the well established conferences -- 7th Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering and the 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering (5th ICEE) Conference -- in Earthquake Engineering to be held in Tokyo, Japan on March 3-5, 2010. The combined conference is organized on the four major themes: (1) vulnerability of mega-cities to seismic hazards, (2) multi-hazard mitigation solutions, (3) adoption of new sensors, actuation and control technologies within future mitigation strategies, and (4) education initiatives aimed toward cultivating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural earthquake engineering curricula. This is a major forum that provides excellent opportunity for the exchange of scientific information and ideas in area of earthquake hazard mitigation. The project will provide the US researchers an opportunity to present technical papers for dissemination of their research results, to interact with international researchers who are working in the area of earthquake engineering and to explore the opportunities for future collaborations. The participants will be selected to represent a broad spectrum of researchers including the underrepresented groups.