[Nheri-council] 11 NCEE and NHERI- Please Respond before Oct 1. TIME SENSITIVE

[julio ramirez]

Good afternoon,

Today, there was a conference call to discuss opportunities with the 
organizers, Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute (EERI) of The Eleventh U.S. National Conference on 
Earthquake Engineering (11NCEE)  which
will convene *June 25 through 29, 2018*, in Los Angeles. Present from 
NHERI were Steve Mahin (SimCenter), Jamie
Padgett (DesignSafe-CI) and JoAnn Browning (NCO Education Leader). As an 
action item from the call, we were
asked to place before the NHERI Council the following two items:

*1. Organization of a NHERI Workshop at the event.

*The objective would be to disseminate information about NHERI among the 
participants at this conference
in particular about the new facilities, i.e. SimCenter, DesignSafe-CI, 
the RAPID, the Wall of Wind at FIU,
the multi-component facility at the University of Florida, and 
educational efforts.

As further background information, NHERI ECO organized a session to make 
sure we have presence at
11NCEE, just as with the wind conference last spring. It is important to 
keep a consistent/even presence
at these events. In regard to the NCO leading the workshop, we are 
specially busy during the month of June.
We are already hosting the summer institute and as you all know, NHERI 
Facilities and the NCO are managing
2 parallel REU programs during that month and the rest of the summer. 
With that, our ability to lead
one more activity is limited.

However, there is little question that there is an opportunity at this 
conference which takes place every four years.
For instance, designsafe and the simcenter could put a workshop on data 
and simulation using designsafe etc.
or a training workshop for users of the new facilities, RAPID (if ready 
to do so by June 2018), University of
Florida and FIU, and whoever else would like to participate.

*2. Extend the currently approved session
*
11NCEE volunteered to put additional NHERI abstracts submitted before 
Oct. 1 together with those in
the current session and we could have Part 1 and Part 2. If you 
submitted one individually (not as part
of a session and not identified as NHERI), please let us know. 11th NCEE 
organizers volunteered to help
round them up.  This will help us have a bigger community presence at 
11NCEE…which is the purpose.

_Presently we have in hand 6_*_:_

*1. SimCenter- Steve Mahin
2. The NHERI User Forum: Introduction and the Annual Community Report
Russell Green (chair of User Forum), Nina Stark (vice chair of User 
Forum), Elaina J. Sutley (presenting author) (secretary of User Forum), 
Erik Johnson, Ramtin Kargarmoakhar, Mohamed Elsharawy, Adda 
Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, James O. Malley, Liesel Ritchie
3. The NHERI RAPID Facility: Enabling the Next-Generation of Natural 
Hazards Reconnaissance-Joe Wartman, et al
4. Using Cloud-Based Data Analysis to Engage Undergraduates in Natural 
Hazards Engineering Jamie Padgett, et al
5. Experimentally Validated Fragilities for Hurricane Resilience of 
Transmission Systems- Abdollah Shafieezadeh, et al
6. Seismic Evaluation of Drywall Partition Walls Integrated with a 
Timber Rocking Wall and Flexible Diaphragm System- Keri Ryan, et al

Apologies for the lengthy e-mail, and look forward to hearing from you 
before Oct 1. Thanks!

Julio
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