Scientific Program

Format and Schedule

The conference will have review, invited and contributed papers. The number of review talks will be limited, and the invited speakers will represent recent results with the potential of significant lasting impacts on the field. The contributed papers will be divided into oral and poster presentations. Review talks will provide overviews of the advances in the understanding of extreme events, in particular those based on nonlinear science and complexity.

The topics for the conference include the studies of Earth and geospace systems and their roles in the development and evolution of extreme events. These will naturally have important practical implications for natural hazard predictions and risk management. The inter-disciplinary nature of the conference theme leads to connections with a wide range of applications and it will therefore be essential to maintain the focus of the conference on the science underlying the relationship between complex behavior and extreme events.

Recognizing the presence of scientists from a wide range of disciplines and from many countries two panel discussions are planned. The first one will be on international collaboration in the studies of extreme events, mainly from the perspective of the conference theme. With the venue of the conference in India, with its rapidly expanding research and development enterprise, it is particularly appropriate to emphasize cooperation between countries. This discussion will be held during the middle of the conference so that the participants have adequate time for further discussion and planning of collaborative activities. The second panel discussion will be the culmination of conference and will be held in the afternoon of the last day. In this discussion the panelists will review the significant advances that nonlinear dynamics and complex systems approaches to the understanding of extreme events and natural hazards. A key objective of this panel will be to identify new and challenging research areas and the potential approaches to address them.

Important Passport Information

Per NGRI policy, attendees from foreign countries must present a copy of their passport to the onsite registration desk. Please make a copy before your arrival to the conference.

Optional Offsite Excursions

Wednesday Afternoon, 17 February
Golconda Fort and the Salar Jung Museum

Registration Fee

The excursion fee must be paid at onsite registration on Monday, 15 February
Participants from India: Rs. 150
Participants from Other Countries: $10

The Golkonda Fort was built by the Qutb Shahi dynasty in the ancient Kingdom of Golkonda (c. 1364–1512), situated west of Hyderabad. The city was home to one of the most powerful Muslim sultanates in the region and was the center of a flourishing diamond trade. The fort, beautiful in its architecture, is an engineering marvel for its time, with Smart Water systems, ventilation and warning systems that can still be seen.

The Salar Jung Museum, on the southern bank of the Musi River in Hyderabad, is the third largest museum in India. The art museum hosts an exqusite collection of priceless articles dating back to the 1st century. Bequeathed from the Salar Jung family - important nobles of India - it is the world’s largest one-man collection. The museum houses Islamic art from all over Asia, including a variety of illuminated Korans, astrolabes, jewelled swords and daggers and Persian carpets. The museum also houses fine examples of European painting and sculpture, most famously the Veiled Rebecca of Italian sculptor Giovanni Maria Benzoni, as well as Chinese and Japanese pieces.