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IOTSUNAMI 2014 Beach, the Auroville Beach and Serenity Beach ABOUT PONDICHERRY RESPONSES International Conference on Pondicherry is one of the most popular tourist You are welcome to register your details on the A decade after the Indian destinations in South India. The city has many colonial conference website and send in your responses to this Ocean Tsunami - Status buildings, churches, temples, and statues, which, invitation by Email indicating your intentions to and Experiences combined with the systematic town planning and the well planned French style avenues. The most popular (a) keep you posted further tourist destinations are the four beaches in (b) submit a manuscript and participate Pondicherry, which are Promenade Beach, Paradise (c) participate in conference IOTSUNAMI 2014 Beach, The Auroville Beach and Serenity Beach. Sri (d) sponsor the event Aurobindo Ashram located on rue de la Marine, is one (e) accommodation requests of the best-known ashrams in India. Auroville (City of (f) post-conference tours 10-13 December 2014 Dawn) is an "experimental" township located 8 km Watch out the web space for more info: North-West of Pondicherry. Auroville is meant to be a http://www.iotsunami2014.org/ universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive CONTACT harmony. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography Pondicherry is well connected by rail, air and road. Dr. Jaya Kumar Seelam & The closest international airport is Chennai, about 2.5 IOSTUNAMI2014 – Organising Secretary CALL FOR PAPERS hour journey by road. Principal Scientist, Ocean Engineering, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Visit http://tourism.pondicherry.gov.in/ for more Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004, INDIA information. Tel: [+91] 832 2450 316 Pondicherry Engineering College CONFERENCE TOURS Dr. G. Vijayakumar / Dr.K.Pandurangan IOSTUNAMI2014 – Jt. Organising Secretaries Technical tour to the tsunami affected areas along the Department of Civil Engineering East coast is planned during the conference. Pondicherry Engineering College Pondicherry Engineering College Post conference tours comprising exhaustive tour of Pondicherry – 605 014, INDIA PONDICHERRY 605 014, INDIA the tsunami affected locations in the vicinity, heritage Tel:[+91] 413 – 2655281 Extn. 201 CSIR -National Institute of Oceanography locations and surrounds of Pondicherry will be Fax:[+91] 413 – 2655101 Dona Paula, Goa 403 004, INDIA organised depending on the response received. Mobile: +919894210966; +919443560885 Co-sponsors: IAHR e-mail : [email protected] INVITATION abstracts would be provided at the Conference. The SHORT COURSES full length manuscript will be accepted from authors Short courses on aspects of Tsunami source who have presented their paper during the The Organising Committee of the International modelling, propagation and inundation; coastal conference. Further instructions on preparing the Conference on "A Decade after the Indian Ocean hazards and management will be held on 10 th manuscript will be sent. The proceedings of the Tsunami" - IOTSUNAMI2014 heartily welcomes you December 2014 subject to response of delegates. conference containing the peer reviewed full length to attend this unique conference being held in The cost towards attending the short course will be manuscripts of only the presented papers at the Pondicherry during 10-13 December 2014. The intimated to the interested participants. objective of the IOTSUNAMI2014, co-sponsored by conference will be published. IAHR, is to bring together the research of Academia, KEY DATES Industry, Scientists and the user community of Visit www.iotsunami2014.org for more info. The tsunami science, engineering and management, abstract and full paper review is carried out using Receipt of extended abstracts 1st July 2014 especially to learn from the community about the EASYCHAIR®-Log in at www.easychair.org and select Notification of abstract acceptance 1st Aug. 2014 research advances made, experiences gained and IOTSUNAMI2014 for submitting your abstracts and Receipt of full length papers 1st Sept. 2014 lessons learnt. IOTSUNAMI2014 is jointly being manuscripts. Paper acceptance notification 1st Oct. 2014 organised by the Pondicherry Engineering College Early bird registration closes 15 th Oct. 2014 th (PEC) and the CSIR – National Institute of THEMES Regular registration closes 30 Nov. 2014 th Oceanography (CSIR–NIO), Goa. On-site registration 10 Dec. 2014 PEC, an autonomous institute, is one of the Premier Extended abstracts of original work of the authors Institutes in the Union Territory of Puducherry, is including measurement, analysis, theoretical, PRELIMINARY PROGRAM affiliated to Pondicherry University. For more physical modelling and validated numerical information on PEC please visit modelling, on the following general themes are 10 th Dec. Short courses, ice breaker reception http://www.pec.edu/ invited: 11 th Dec. Technical & poster sessions th Source Modelling – Tectonic IGPS 12 Dec. Technical sessions & Tour CSIR-NIO is one of the premier oceanographic th Numerical Modelling 13 Dec. Technical sessions & Closing institutes in the world with its research activities in every aspect of the ocean including coastal regions. Physical Modelling For more information on CSIR-NIO, please visit Field Investigation REGISTRATION FEES http://www.nio.org/. Hazard assessment and Management Delegate category International* Indian Regular (Early bird) USD 600 INR 8000 Paleo-tsunamis Regular USD 800 INR 10000 Other related aspects of Tsunami Regular (onsite) USD 1000 INR 15000 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Policy Matters Papers presenting practical and real life scenarios Student USD 400 INR 6000 IOTSUNAMI2014 invites prospective authors to Student (onsite) USD 700 INR 10000 including case studies are encouraged. Any topics submit their extended abstracts (not exceeding two not listed below but of relevance to the objectives Includes one set of conference kit, working lunches, conference A4 sized pages) dealing with the conference themes of IOTSUNAMI2014 would also be considered. dinners & conference tour; *Includes accommodation for or related topics. 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