16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16th WCEE): Report of attendance
Author: Laurensia Marcelina Anggraini (M1)
Date: January 9-13, 2017
Venue: CasaPiedra Convention Center, Santiago, Chile
I got the chance to participate in the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, one of the
largest conference in the field of earthquake engineering. More than 4000 papers were submitted to
this conference, more than half were presented in posters while the rest were done orally. I orally
presented my paper with the title: Seismic Response Analysis of Urban Highway Viaducts under Multiple
Vehicles Subjected to Strong Earthquakes. It was under 99SS session related to Non-linear Dynamics and Wave
propagation. The conference lasted for 5 days, but I only attended it for 1 day due to time limitation. On each
day, the conference started with a keynote lecture. Unfortunately I could not really focus on the lecture due
to jet lag (there is 12-hour difference between Chile and Japan). My presentation was at 7 p.m. and by that time I
did not feel any jetlag, I felt lucky that my session was done at evening. On the discussion time after my
presentation, I got some feedbacks and suggestions regarding my study. One interesting suggestion by Prof.
Colin Taylor of University of Bristol was regarding old light-weight bridges in European countries, on which
the mass ratio of the vehicle to the bridge are relatively large. After the conference, we met Professor Kim’s
friend, Prof. Fernando of University of Concepcion who also attended the conference. We had dinner at a Chilean
food restaurant. The food was delicious, but we could not finish our food because the portion was too big for us.
Attending this conference is a good experience for me, 16th WCEE was the largest conference that I ever attended,
I got feedbacks and suggestions from other researchers, also I got the chance to eat Chilean food and do some
sightseeing in Santiago.
加速度波形から継ぎ手部で加速度が大きくなっていることが確認され，精度は粗いもののGPSで場所を確認するこ
とができた．
クイーンズ大学の研究部屋には，他の様々な国からPhDを取得しに来た学生が在籍していた．彼らから研究内容だ
けでなく母国の文化の話を聞くことは，貴重な体験となった．また，英語を使わざるを得ない状況下に置かれるこ
とで，英語を練習する良い機会となった．Fig.2は現地学生との写真，Fig.3は現地で大変お世話になったDr.
McGetrickとの写真である．
and discuss with excellent students and professors from other countries. I am very happy to say that it expands my
knowledge in the field. Also I attended the Wiley Workshop, learned how to select a suitable journal for article
publication, refine paper to increase chances of success, submit a manuscript and survive peer review, and apply
practical techniques to increase the visibility of article after it has been published. What’s more, I joined Female
Researchers Networking Forum, had a discussion with many female excellent researchers about gender balance in
research group, and how to gain the balance between family and work, and so on.
