<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#444444">The ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD), in partnership with The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is pleased to announce the <strong>San Fernando Earthquake Conference – 50 years of Lifeline Engineering (<a href="https://samueli.ucla.edu/lifelines2021/" target="_blank">Lifelines2021</a>)</strong>, focusing on “Understanding, Improving & Operationalizing Hazard Resilience for Lifeline Systems.”</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#444444"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#444444">February 7-10, 2021</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#444444">UCLA </font></span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Luskin Center</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#444444"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#444444"><b>Now accepting abstracts. Deadline is March 24. <a href="https://samueli.ucla.edu/lifelines2021-call-for-abstracts/" target="_blank">Details online</a>.  </b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:13.5pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><font color="#444444"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The 50th anniversary of the San Fernando Earthquake is an opportunity to reflect on the need to increase the resilience of our critical infrastructure systems to earthquakes and other hazards. The conference will provide a retrospective of where we are today and how we got here, and help define</span><font face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><u> </u></font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">a global vision for where we are going to create resilient infrastructure systems within interdisciplinary and multihazard </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">environments which support community and regional resilience. These encompass the conference goals.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><font color="#444444"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><font color="#444444"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please share with friends and colleagues!</span></font></p></div>