We are pleased to announce that the 10th ACES International Workshop will be held at Hotel & Resorts Minamiawaji, Awaji Island, Japan from September 25 to September 28, 2018. Awaji Island is a charming island located 40 km southwest of Kobe.

The ACES (ACES) (APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Science) is a multi-lateral grand challenge science research cooperation of APEC. The project is supported by Australia, China, Japan, and USA (core members) as well as Canada, Chinese Taipei, New Zealand, and South Korea (members). It involves leading international earthquake science research groups. ACES aims to develop realistic simulation models, thus providing a "virtual laboratory" to probe earthquake behavior and to access its potential hazards. This capability will offer a new opportunity to gain an improved understanding of the earthquake process and related phenomena, and of earthquake science in general.

In this workshop we will focus on the earthquake physics including strain accumulation, earthquake nucleation and propagation, and redistribution of stress and healing.

The workshop generally consists of eight plenary scientific sessions as follows.

Session 1: Stress accumulation and earthquake preparation
Session 2: Earthquake nucleation process
Session 3: Earthquake dynamic rupture
Session 4: Seismic wave propagation and tsunamis
Session 5: Static deformation, stress redistribution and viscoelastic relaxation
Session 6: Aftershocks and seismic activity
Session 7: Earthquake cycles

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Keynote speakers

Jean-Paul Ampuero (Université Cote d'Azur, France)
Jean-Philippe Avouac (California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.)
Phil Cummins (Australian National University, Australia)
Jay Fineberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Invited speakers

Sylvain Barbot (University of Southern California, U.S.A.)
Eric Dunham (Stanford University, U.S.A.)
Kaj Johnson (Indiana University Bloomington, U.S.A.)
Yoshihiro Kaneko (GNS Science, New Zealand)
Lingsen Meng (University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
Robert Viesca (Tufts University, U.S.A.)
Tim Wright（University of Leeds, U.K.）
Lingling Ye (Sun Yat-sen University, China and the University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Every participant is encouraged to submit an abstract for oral or poster presentation. Full peer-reviewed papers will be planned as a special volume after the workshop.