Members present at the ICASP conference in Sydney included Honjo, Akkaya, Favre, Ollsson and myself.

We had an informal gathering on the morning of December 15 at the Conference Parkroyal Hotel.

Tang began by updating members on what took place in our last meeting at Iguaçu Falls.

Members present shared that the committee should move ahead to promote probabilistic, reliability, and risk methodologies to the geotechnical profession worldwide.

The Committee should make a strong presence in the next ISSMFE at Istanbul.

In the meantime, Honjo and Tang will work together to focus on the activities in Asia. The Southeast Asian Geotechnical Conference (SEAGC) will be held in December 2001 in Hong Kong, in which Tang is the co Vice-Chairman.

Besides recruiting more papers on probabilistic approaches from participants, our Committee could organize a short course on probabilistic and risk approach in conjunction with the Conference.

Ollson and Favre will focus on the activities in Europe.