<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Joint Academia-Industry Workshop</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">September 21-22, 2020</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Join us and shape the future of earthquake engineering
research and practice!</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">NHERI@UC San Diego is hosting a two-day workshop that brings
together academic and industry experts in earthquake engineering to discuss
research needs that can immediately impact current building codes and standards
and make use of the newly upgraded 6-DOF Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake
Table (LHPOST6).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The workshop aims to promote academia-industry relations and
ultimately map the future direction of research and operations at UC San
Diego's Englekirk Structural Engineering Center (ESEC).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Why you should attend</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Your input, in combination with other experts in the field,
is essential to pave the future of earthquake engineering research and
practice, including the development of the next generation of design codes.
Come strategize new ways to solve the grand challenges of earthquake
engineering that were not possible before the upgrade of our new one-of-a-kind
LHPOST6 facility.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://nheri.ucsd.edu/workshops/2020JointAcademiaIndustry/WorkshopRegistration.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Register for the workshop</a></p>
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The objectives of this workshop are to:<br>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Promote
academia-industry collaborations and identify high priority research
needs, which would benefit from the newly upgraded NHERI@UC San Diego
Experimental Facility.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Disseminate
information on the use of the NHERI@UC San Diego Experimental Facility to
conduct state‐of‐the‐art research and experimentation in natural hazards
mitigation.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Identify
and formulate grand challenge research needs to advance the science,
technology and practice in earthquake disaster mitigation and prevention
and to improve seismic design codes and standards.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Provide
information for preparing NSF proposals which use the NHERI@UC San Diego
facility.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Identify
and develop opportunities to utilize the NHERI@UC San Diego Experimental
Facility.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Brainstorm
on example uses of the facility given grand challenge discussions.</li>
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the workshop, please click below.</p>
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