2011 Seminar on: The Future of MonitoringSeismic Rock Mass Response to Mining 23 24 May, Arabella Country Estate, Hermanus, South Africa Sunday 22 May 09h30, Arabella Estate: Meeting of the InternationalResearch Advisory Board of the Institute of Mine Seismology Sunday Evening 22 May 18h00 - Ice-breaker Monday 23 May 08h30 - Lectures on Key Issues in Monitoring Modelling Seismic Rock Mass Response to Mining Tuesday 24 May 08h30 - Presentations on Practical Applications ofMonitoring and Modelling Seismic Rock Mass Response to Mining 25 - 27 May, IMS Offices, Stellenbosch, South Africa Wednesday 25 May 08h30 - A Course on Quantification of SeismicSources Processing of Seismological Data Thursday 26 May 08h30 - A Course on Seismic Hazard in Mines Friday 27 May 08h30 - A Course on High Definition Rock MassCharacterization with Active and Passive Seismic Confirmed Presentations as at 07 February 2011 Integration: Seismology and Rock MechanicsGeoRisk and Fault Slip Control in DeepMining, Prof. Peter Kaiser, President and CEO of CEMI, Canada The Use ofMicroseismicMonitoring to Calibrate Numerical Modelsof Rockmass Failure, Dr Richard K. Brummer, Itasca Consulting Canada Observations of Seismicity, Stress, Strain and Strength DuringCave Initiation and Propagation, Dr David Beck, Beck Engineering,Australia Modelling of DeepMine Rock Fracture Processes, Dr John Napier,University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Functional Specifications for In-stope Support Based on SeismicObservations and Theory, Prof. Ray Durrheim, University of the Witwatersrand,South Africa Self- and Cross-Influence BEMIntegrals of Distributed Dislocationsand Tractions, Dr Assen Ilchev, Institute of Mine Seismology Utility of Material Point Method to Model Seismic Deformation,Dr Assen Ilchev and Gys Basson, Institute of Mine Seismology Results of Seismic Monitoring at Zhelezniy Open Pit at KolaPeninsula, Prof. Anatoliy A. Kozyrev, Mining Institute Apatity, Russia Evolution of Seismicity Driven by Combination ofMining Inducedand Tectonic Stresses at Khibiny, Kola Peninsula, Prof. Nikolay N.Melnikov, Mining Institute Apatity, Russia Seismology Seismic HazardMonitoring the Earth’s Interiors Using Ambient Seismic Noise, Dr Florent Brenguier, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris Modellingwaveforms of seismic sources induced by room-and-pillarmining and by an underground hydrocarbon storage, Prof. AleksanderS. Voznesenskii, Moscow State Mining University Attenuation of P- and S-wave in the Mining Districts Observedat Surface, and Attenuation as Controlling Factor of Strong Ground2Motion Prediction Model, Dr Artur Cichowicz, Council for Geoscience,South Africa Imaging Direction of Rupture and Inverting Slip Velocity of SeismicEvents in Mines, Dr Ernest Lötter, Institute of Mine Seismology Peculiarity of Seismic Source Mechanisms in Mines Dr DmitriyMalovichko, Institute of Mine Seismology VolumeMined and Seismic Hazard - A case study, Lourens Scheepersand Gerhard Morkel, AngloGoldAshanti Forecasting Seismic Hazard in Time and VolumeMined Domain,Dr Aleksander Mendecki and Cornel du Toit, Institute of Mine Seismology Routine Short TermGroundMotion Hazard Assessment inMines,Dr Gerrie van Aswegen, Institute of Mine Seismology High Resolution Active Seismic Monitoring in Mines; Dr RichardLynch, Institute of Mine Seismology New Technologies for Monitoring Seismic Rock Mass Responseto Mining, Gareth Goldswain, Institute of Mine Seismology Seismology Research and TrainingOn SA Capability for Training and Education in Rock Mechanics and Seismology, Dr Matthew Handley, Hands on Mining, South Africa Growing Seismologists in South Africa, Prof. Ray Durrheim, Universityof the Witwatersrand, South Africa Key Issues inMine Seismology Research, Dr Aleksander Mendecki,Institute of Mine Seismology For registrations please contact Rynelle.Eksteen@IMSeismology.org.