<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">SIMCENTER WEBINAR</span></font><br><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Application framework for regional earthquake loss estimation</span></font><br><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Sept. 26, 12pm-1pm Pacific time</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/simcenter/2018/webinar-180926/">Register on the DesignSafe website</a>.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px">ABSTRACT</span></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(51,51,51)">The
NHERI SimCenter has developed an application framework to study the effects of
earthquakes on society at the regional scale. This framework demonstrates
scientific workflows for regional earthquake damage and loss estimation, that
utilize either HPC resources at DesignSafe-CI for large-scale simulations or
local computational resources for testing, development, and smaller-scale
simulations. The extensible framework presents an opportunity for community
development to enhance simulation capabilities and tackle complex scientific
questions in natural hazards research. In this webinar the framework will be
introduced and a demonstration will be given on how to run the workflow
applications on a local computer for small-scale regional simulations.<br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">PRESENTERS</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(51,51,51)">Frank
McKenna's work focuses on developing software related to natural hazards. Since
completing a PhD from UC Berkeley, Frank has been a software developer on a
number of impactful projects. These included the PEER-funded OpenSees
framework, the DOE- and NRC-funded Real ESSI program, and the NSF-funded NHERI
SimCenter framework. Before attending UC Berkeley, Frank worked in the
architectural and engineering firm of SOM in London, UK as a structural
engineer. Wael Elhaddad is a Post-doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley where he
develops software for the NHERI SimCenter. He obtained his PhD in Structural
Engineering from the University of Southern California and has industry
experience working as a Software Engineer at the Analytical Modeling Group in
Bentley Systems.</span></p><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_jm8jhyja0" alt="SimCenter@0.5x.png" width="427" height="90"><br></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_jm8joxiy1" alt="nsf-small.jpg" width="45" height="45"><br></div></div></div></div>