Work Plan
The workshop will be organized as follows. The organizing committee
will contact researchers who are currently active in tsunami and long
wave research about their interest in the workshop. The organizing
committee will invite an active researcher to prepare an in-depth
review on each topic listed in the objectives section. These invited
authors will present their papers and preside the discussion sections
on the respective subject during the workshop. The discussions will
center on several benchmark problems designed specifically for each
topic. The descriptions of these benchmark problems including
analytical solutions, laboratory experiments and field data are
discussed in a later section.
Among the interested researchers the organizing committee will
invite approximately twelve formal discussers for the benchmark
problems, which are posted in the benchmark problems section. With this
setup, every researcher can participate actively in the workshop
discussion with his/her results in hand. Each researcher can choose one
or two benchmark problems. Sufficient information for each benchmark
problem together with limited measurements or analytical solutions at
predetermined locations will be provided for the researcher. Using the
given data, the participants are required to present their solutions at
additional predetermined locations with a specified format; such
experimental data or analytical solutions are available but not given
to the participants a priori. In some cases, additional analyses are
required and the procedures as well as results will be part of workshop
discussions.
Approximately two months prior to the workshop, each invited speaker
will submit a completed review article on the assigned topic. These
articles will be made available on the Web site prior to the meeting.
The invited discussers are also required to submit their discussions
three weeks before the workshop. Those who submitted the written
presentation will become formal discussers for the session. The written
presentations will be compiled and distributed to all the participants
two weeks prior to the workshop through e-mail and will also be posted
on the Web site. With this format, all the information concerning the
benchmark problems and model testing results are available to every
participants before the workshop, hence most of the workshop time will
be spent on discussions.
After the workshop, the formal presenters can modify their
manuscripts based on the discussions. The final manuscripts of their
review articles (perhaps cooperated with the discussers if any) will be
published in a book form under the editorship of the organizing
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