Opening Ceremony and Plenaries
Date: 13:30-18:00, July 31, 2017
Joint opening Ceremony and Plenary Lectures
Place: Main Hall
13:30 Greetings
Message from The Prime Minister
Welcome message from Kobe City
SCJ vice president: Dr. Hanaki
SSJ president: Dr. Yamaoka
IUGG president: Dr. Sideris
14:00 Plenary Lectures
14:00 Prof. Kosuke Heki (Dept. Earth Planet. Sci., Hokkaido Univ.)
"Geodesy in Japan : Legends and highlights"
14:40 Prof. Barbara Romanowicz (Univ. of California Berkeley, and Collège de France, Paris)
"Imaging the earth's deep interior using seismic waves in the age of high-performance computing"
15:20 Prof. Manabu Hashimoto (Disaster Prevention Research Inst., Kyoto Univ.)
"Evolution of earthquake science with space geodesy"
16:00 Coffee break
Opening Plenaries
16:30-18:00 IASPEI Opening Plenary
Place: Main Hall
16:30-18:00 IAG Opening Plenary
Place: International Conference Room