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The CPPS (“Centre Pédagogique pour la Prévention des Séismes”) is a newly developed educational centre to learn about earthquakes, seismic hazard and related topics, hosted by the HES-SO in Sion. It will be open to the public in the Autumn, and during the preparation phase we (a group of 13 colleagues from UNIL-ISTE) had the opportunity to visit and test the exhibit, including the earthquake simulator! It was a great experience. For more details on the CPPS: http://www.cpps-vs.ch/fr-fr/

Photo from the CPPS website

Congratulations to Leonardo Colavitti who was awarded the “Irene Galante” prize by the University of Trieste for his master thesis! This prize is awarded to students who have carried out their research at the Department of Mathematics and Geosciences. The thesis title is “Tomografia crostale delle Alpi Sud-Orientali: dalla localizzazione sismica al modello Geologico-Strutturale”, supervised by Drs. Costa, Tiberi and Böhm.

For the Summer months Djordje Grujic from Dalhousie University (Canada) will be with our group as a visiting professor. He will work on the Eastern Himalayas and also on Alpine tectonics. His stay is funded by the International Short Visit program of SNF.

At the latest Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet workshop the following future venues have been agreed on:

• 2017: China
• 2018: Switzerland
• 2019: USA (Montana)

We are delighted to host the conference in Switzerland again!

More details and a dedicated website will come in due time.

We will be at the 2016 Himalayan-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop from May 9 to 12 in Aussois, France.

On Tuesday May 10 at 9h45, György Hetényi will be talking about Deformation partitioning between the Bhutan Himalaya and the Shillong Plateau.

On Thursday May 12 from 12 to 14h, Kristel Chanard will be presenting a poster on Modeling deformation induced by seasonal hydrology in the Himalaya, constraints on the Earth viscoelastic structure. 

On May 2^nd György Hetényi will give the ISTE institute seminar at 17:15 in Géopolis room 1620:

Himalayan geodynamics: lessons from the past 20 years and challenges for the next 20

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