Colleagues,
We would like to invite you attend an open and free Splinter Group meeting
at the EGU conference in Vienna next week. The aim of the meeting is to
examine the role of geoscience in catastrophe modelling, and in particular
to bridge the gap between science and the insurance industry. The meeting
and drinks reception, which is organised by the Willis Research Network,
will be held at the EGU on Friday 20th April 2007, in Splinter Meeting Room
1 (Blue Level) between 12:00-13:30.
The context for the meeting is that the global insurance industry is
concerned with the identification and management of risk, particularly that
arising from natural hazards. Ultimately a significant body of specialist
data and information on hazards, exposures and the response of structures to
hazards need to be integrated into tools which facilitate objective risk
and return based decision-making capabilities. Key challenges exist in the
development of methods for expressing the impacts of geohazards in terms
that business and financial communities can understand and evaluate.
Geoscience provides the building blocks for the proper determination of
hazard frequency and severity and this meeting provides an opportunity
for the issues surrounding catastrophe risk assessment for insurance to be
discussed by the European geoscience community.
In the meeting, presentations by Willis Research Network scientists, from
both academic and business arenas, will provide an introduction to insurance
risk assessment and will show how natural hazard science can be applied to
insurance. A general discussion owill follow the speakers and your
contribution is welcomed.
We welcome attendance and participation from people from all sectors,
including academia, industry, government and NGO's.
Details of the meeting are available at:
http://www.willisresearchnetwork.com/Documents/WRN_EGU_Meeting_200407.pdf
More information on the Willis Research Network can be found at:
http://www.willisresearchnetwork.com/
For more information about the meeting or the WRN, please contact: Matthew
Foote, Research Director, Willis Research Network on +44 (0)20 7860 9244 and
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Thanks,
Dave Petley
International Landslide Centre,
Durham University
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