Dear All,
We are happy to confirm that there are still some spaces on offer at the
1st EPICENTRE - Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR) International Risk
Perception Symposium: "Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in the 21st Century"
To be held on Monday 26th October 2009 at UCL, Old Refectory
The symposium includes talks by invited International speakers and breakout
sessions for discussion of topics” Challenges in cross-disciplinary and cross-
cultural collaborations in risk perception research” and “gaps and opportunities
in risk perception research for the 21st century”.
Our confirmed speakers are: Prof. Nuray Karanci (Middle East Technical
University, Turkey), Prof. Katsuya Yamori (Kyoto University, Japan), Prof.
David Johnston and Dr Julia Becker (JCDR, New Zealand), Dr Cassidy Johnson
and Dr Adriana Allen (UCL, Development Planning Unit) and Dr Helene Joffe
(UCL, Psychology). Prof John Adams of UCL will be the Discussant for the
event and will chair several sessions in the afternoon. Dr Tiziana Rossetto
(EPICENTRE Director) will be opening the symposium.
More information on this upcoming Symposium, including the schedule,
abstracts of talks and speaker biographies can be found on our EPICentre
website at: http://www.epicentreonline.com/?page_id=447
Links to the registration form, and all other information can be found on this
page or on the left-hand site menu under “More Links”.
Registration costs £40. To register for the remaining places please complete
the form on the following
link: http://www.cege.ucl.ac.uk/Home/epicentresymposium/registration
Please do also forward this information onto to any colleague that may be
interested.
Kind regards,
Bhupinder
Ms. Bhupinder Sehra
Graduate Development
Department of Civil, Environmental
and Geomatic Engineering
&
Department of Statistical Science
UCL, Gower Street,
London, WC1E 6BT
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 4428
Extension 34428
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