Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Lecture Series
March 3, 2022. 2pm
l'Université de Toulon , La Garde, Seatech
Bâtiment X, amphithéâtre X300
Open to the public. Livestream via Zoom
Conference in French.
Tsunamis are among the most destructive of natural disasters. All over the world, they can impact coastal regions with high population density. The most destructive tsunamis in modern history were caused by earthquakes along the Pacific Ring of Fire: Chili 1960, Indian Ocean 2004, Japon 2011. But tsunamis caused by volcanic activity or underwater landslides have also been very destructive as well : Krakatoa 1883 with 30,000 deaths, Papua New Guinea 1998 with 2,000 deaths...
This conference will draw on 25 years of research by Stephan Grilli and his collaborators on tsunamis from different sources (earthquakes, landslides and volcanic eruptions), digital modeling of tsunamis and their impact on society in coastal areas. In addition to the events listed earlier, the conference will touch on more recent events (Anak Krakatua 2019, Palu 2018, Tonga 2022) and the hypotheses which allow us to develop flooding maps of potential tsunamis.
Originally from Belgium, Stephan Grilli is professor of ocean engineering at the University of Rhode Island. He is currently the Fulbright-Tocqueville chair at the Université de Toulon, France thanks to a grant from the French-American Fulbright Commission. He is working at the l’Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie (MIO) where he is developing models of remote detection by radar of major tsunami events. He also teaches at the institute SeaTech on wave modeling.
