Venue:  Nagoya, Japan

Summary:  On behalf of the International and the Local Organizing Committees of the 8th International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering (ICHE-2008), we cordially invite you to participate in the conference to be held on September 8-12, 2008 in Nagoya, Japan. It is great honor for us to be your hosts at this important event in which our primary goals are the sharing of scientific and professional experiences and recent advances in our engineering discipline. The conference is hosted by Nagoya University, School of Civil Engineering, and organized locally by an organizing committee composed of faculty members from Nagoya University and other universities in the region.

The ICHE-2008 will extend the series of biennial conference started in Washington, D.C (1993), continued in Beijing (1995), Cottbus (1998), Seoul (2000), Warsaw (2002), Brisbane (2004), and Philadelphia (2006). These conferences have acted in the past as a welcome forum to report and discuss the latest advancements in Hydro-Science and Engineering and as such have always been highly valued by all participants.

Undoubtedly, the ICHE-2008 will provide an opportunity for making numerous personal and professional contacts. The theme of this conference is “New Challenge of Hydro-Science and Engineering toward Sustainability through Flood Risk, Water Resources & Ecosystem Assessment ". Though the topics discussed in this conference are wide as listed below, they will be organized as several mini-symposia to clarify the direction of the new challenge. In addition to personal and professional contacts during the technical sessions, the conference offers its participants a chance to attend specialized technical visit that will demonstrate "New Challenge of Hydro-Science and Engineering toward Sustainability through Flood Risk, Water Resources & Ecosystem Assessment".

Sponsors : International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), Nagoya University, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), Ecology and Civil Engineering Society (ECES), Japan Water Forum, Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society (CHES), Korean Association for Water Resources (KWRA), Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER), National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering, the University of Mississippi (NCCHE)

Contacts:  
ICHE-2008 Conference Secretariat Nagoya University
Department of Civil Engineering
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya,
Aichi 464-8603, JAPAN
E-mail: ICHE2008@civil.nagoya-u.ac.jp