Following the tradition of previous ESG symposia, ESG7 will feature three days of plenary sessions, including keynote lectures and invited talks — some drawn from submitted abstracts — alongside dedicated poster sessions.
The symposium will showcase the latest results from the two benchmarks BENTO (BEnchmark of 3D Numerical Simulations on TOpographic sites) and OSCAR (One-Station methods for site ChARacterisation benchmark).
 
We welcome abstracts on all aspects of site effects on ground motions, with a special emphasis on the challenges of quantitatively predicting ground motions that account for these effects. We are particularly interested in contributions addressing the following themes:
• Innovative data, methods, and models for site characterization and site effects, especially those leveraging artificial intelligence, Distributed Acoustic Sensing, dense arrays, and low-cost sensing devices;
• Numerical and empirical prediction of earthquake ground motion, seismic ambient noise, accounting for site effects;
• Case studies of recent damaging earthquakes where site effects played a significant role in the observed damage;
Advances in ESG-related studies over the past three decades, with a focus on future challenges in a rapidly urbanizing world and evolving seismic building codes. 

LIST OF KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Pierre-Yves Bard (ISTerre) – H/V spectral ratios: consensus reached and debated issues after four decades of investigations
Brady COX (Utah State University, USA) - DAS Site Characterization: Opportunities and Challenges
Philippe Jousset (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany) - TBA
Francisco J. Sánchez-Sesma (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico).  The 2026 Joyner Memorial Lecture on Seismic Wave Propagation in Complex Geological Domains: From Site Effects in Ground Motion to Diffuse Fields in Passive Seismology