About the Symposium
The Faculty of Engineering was pleased to announce the first Kyoto-Leeds International Symposium on Advanced Engineering for Natural Disaster Identification, Mitigation, Prevention and Response. The Symposium was held on 17th to 19th, September 2018, between Kyoto University and the University of Leeds, at Weetwood Hall.
Academic sessions held during the Symposium included areas such as:
- Economics and Social Science;
- Robotics;
- Hydrology and Nature Based Solutions;
- Geotechnics and Structures; and,
- Remote sensing, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.
The Symposium is one of a series, held by Kyoto University, to facilitate closer cooperation between Kyoto and other academic institutions around the world.
This is the first time that the University of Leeds has taken part and it will assist the two Universities, to address strategic issues of common concern to both Japan and the United Kingdom.
Objectives
The objectives of the Symposium were to:
- Enhance research collaboration between the University of Leeds and Kyoto University in the fields of science and technology, especially, Civil and Mechanical Engineering for natural disaster identification, mitigation, prevention and response.
- The specific goals of the meeting were: (1) to identify, draft and develop joint research projects; and, (2) to develop ideas for joint publications.
- Promote higher education collaboration working together with the RENKEI project.