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

[julio ramirez]

Thank you, Ellen for the quick feedback. I believe this is precisely the 
plan and
Heidi may help us do so.

Right, Heidi?

Julio

On 9/20/17 8:03 PM, Rathje, Ellen M wrote:
>
> Julio:
>
> I submitted a paper on DesignSafe related to research—it was entitled  
> “Enhancing Earthquake Engineering Research through the DesignSafe 
> Cyberinfrastructure".  I do not recall if I submitted to a specific 
> session, but it was accepted to the session entitled "High Performance 
> Computing and Simulation”.   Should we try and get it connected with 
> the other NHERI papers?
>
> Ellen
>
> *From:*Nheri-council [mailto:nheri-council-bounces at designsafe-ci.org] 
> *On Behalf Of *julio ramirez
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 20, 2017 5:35 PM
> *To:* NHERI-Council <NHERI-Council at designsafe-ci.org>
> *Cc:* JoAnn Browning <joann.browning at utsa.edu>; Heidi Tremayne 
> <heidi at eeri.org>; jamie.padgett at rice.edu
> *Subject:* [Nheri-council] 11 NCEE and NHERI- Please Respond before 
> Oct 1. TIME SENSITIVE
>
> 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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