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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Hi 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:#002060">Thank you for the information. We surely would like to participate. Please advise what is needed from NHERI WOW EF at this time.<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:#002060">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Arindam Gan Chowdhury, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#006FC9">PI and Director, NHERI Wall of Wind (WOW) Experimental Facility (EF)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#006FC9">Co-Director, Lab. Wind Engineering Research, Extreme Events Institute,
<i>an FIU Preeminent Program</i> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#006FC9">Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environ. Engineering
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#006FC9">Florida International University
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#006FC9">Tel: 305-348-0518, Fax: 305-348-2802<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#006FC9">E-mail:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:chowdhur@fiu.edu"><span style="color:blue">chowdhur@fiu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#006FC9"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#006FC9">NHERI WOW EF Webpage:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://fiu.designsafe-ci.org/"><span style="color:blue">https://fiu.designsafe-ci.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#006FC9">
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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 6:35 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
<br>
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>
<br>
</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>
<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>
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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
<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.
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<br>
<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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