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Good afternoon,<br>
<br>
Today, there was a conference call to discuss opportunities with the
organizers, Earthquake Engineering<br>
Research Institute (EERI) of The Eleventh U.S. National Conference
on Earthquake Engineering (11NCEE) which<br>
will convene <b>June 25 through 29, 2018</b>, in Los Angeles.
Present from NHERI were Steve Mahin (SimCenter), Jamie<br>
Padgett (DesignSafe-CI) and JoAnn Browning (NCO Education Leader).
As an action item from the call, we were <br>
asked to place before the NHERI Council the following two items:<br>
<br>
<b>1. Organization of a NHERI Workshop at the event. <br>
<br>
</b>The objective would be to disseminate information about NHERI
among the participants at this conference <br>
in particular about the new facilities, i.e. SimCenter,
DesignSafe-CI, the RAPID, the Wall of Wind at FIU, <br>
the multi-component facility at the University of Florida, and
educational efforts.<br>
<br>
As further background information, NHERI ECO organized a session to
make sure we have presence at <br>
11NCEE, just as with the wind conference last spring. It is
important to keep a consistent/even presence <br>
at these events. In regard to the NCO leading the workshop, we are
specially busy during the month of June.<br>
We are already hosting the summer institute and as you all know,
NHERI Facilities and the NCO are managing<br>
2 parallel REU programs during that month and the rest of the
summer. With that, our ability to lead<br>
one more activity is limited. <br>
<br>
However, there is little question that there is an opportunity at
this conference which takes place every four years.<br>
For instance, designsafe and the simcenter could put a workshop on
data and simulation using designsafe etc. <br>
or a training workshop for users of the new facilities, RAPID (if
ready to do so by June 2018), University of<br>
Florida and FIU, and whoever else would like to participate.<br>
<br>
<b>2. Extend the currently approved session<br>
</b><br>
11NCEE volunteered to put additional NHERI abstracts submitted
before Oct. 1 together with those in <br>
the current session and we could have Part 1 and Part 2. If you
submitted one individually (not as part <br>
of a session and not identified as NHERI), please let us know. 11th
NCEE organizers volunteered to help <br>
round them up. This will help us have a bigger community presence
at 11NCEE…which is the purpose. <br>
<br>
<u>Presently we have in hand 6</u><b><u>:</u><br>
<br>
</b>1. SimCenter- Steve Mahin<br>
2. The NHERI User Forum: Introduction and the Annual Community
Report<br>
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<br>
3. The NHERI RAPID Facility: Enabling the Next-Generation of Natural
Hazards Reconnaissance-Joe Wartman, et al<br>
4. Using Cloud-Based Data Analysis to Engage Undergraduates in
Natural Hazards Engineering Jamie Padgett, et al<br>
5. Experimentally Validated Fragilities for Hurricane Resilience of
Transmission Systems- Abdollah Shafieezadeh, et al<br>
6. Seismic Evaluation of Drywall Partition Walls Integrated with a
Timber Rocking Wall and Flexible Diaphragm System- Keri Ryan, et al<br>
<br>
Apologies for the lengthy e-mail, and look forward to hearing from
you before Oct 1. Thanks!<br>
<br>
Julio<br>
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