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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Julio:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ellen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Nheri-council [mailto:nheri-council-bounces@designsafe-ci.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>julio ramirez<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 20, 2017 5:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NHERI-Council <NHERI-Council@designsafe-ci.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> JoAnn Browning <joann.browning@utsa.edu>; Heidi Tremayne <heidi@eeri.org>; jamie.padgett@rice.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nheri-council] 11 NCEE and NHERI- Please Respond before Oct 1. TIME SENSITIVE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Good afternoon,<br>
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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
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asked to place before the NHERI Council the following two items:<br>
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<b>1. Organization of a NHERI Workshop at the event. <br>
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</b>The objective would be to disseminate information about NHERI among the participants at this conference
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in particular about the new facilities, i.e. SimCenter, DesignSafe-CI, the RAPID, the Wall of Wind at FIU,
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the multi-component facility at the University of Florida, and educational efforts.<br>
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As further background information, NHERI ECO organized a session to make sure we have presence at
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11NCEE, just as with the wind conference last spring. It is important to keep a consistent/even presence
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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>
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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.
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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>
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<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
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the current session and we could have Part 1 and Part 2. If you submitted one individually (not as part
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of a session and not identified as NHERI), please let us know. 11th NCEE organizers volunteered to help
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round them up. This will help us have a bigger community presence at 11NCEE…which is the purpose.
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<u>Presently we have in hand 6<b>:</b></u><b><br>
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</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>
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Apologies for the lengthy e-mail, and look forward to hearing from you before Oct 1. Thanks!<br>
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Julio<o:p></o:p></p>
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