The Conference is devoted to summarise the state-of-the-art in rock dynamics and applications, highlighting the current scientific research activities and engineering application challenges, covering all the aspects ranging from analytical and numerical works to laboratory testing, and to engineering. For the themes, topics and further details, please look at the conference website: http://www.rocdyn.org. RocDyn-1 welcomes the participation of the scientists and the engineers involving in rock dynamic research and engineering practice to share, to cooperate, and to progress together.

Colleagues interested to participate RocDyn-1 are invited to submit abstracts on various aspects within the conference schemes. Abstract should be about 400 words long, with a title, authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, and be submitted in electronic form (MsWord, LaTeX or PDF) through the conference website. Deadline for abstract submission is 30 September 2012.