Wadie Chalgham wins Audience Choice Award at UCLA's 2020 Grad Slam Finals
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Wadie Chalgham receives Audience Choice Award at UCLA's 2020 Grad Slam Finals.
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NEWS & EVENTS
UC Santa Barbara joins NHR3
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UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) joins UCLA, UCI, UCSD, USC, California Institute of Technology, and Southern California Earthquake Center.
Read MoreSeminar Invite: PRA and Risk-Informed Decision Making at the NRC: Some Trends and Challenges
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The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences cordially invites you to attend Dr. Nathan Siu’s seminar on “PRA and Risk-Informed Decision Making at the NRC: Some Trends and Challenges.” The seminar will take place on February 21, 2020 from 1-2pm at UCLA in Engineering V Building Room 5101.
Read MoreDr. B. John Garrick accepts The 2019 W. Bennett Lewis Award for Sustainable Energy and Development
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Congratulations to Dr. B. John Garrick! On November 18, Dr. Garrick received The 2019 W. Bennett Lewis Award for Sustainable Energy and Development.
Read MoreCalifornia Energy Commission Awards $3.5 Million Research Grant On Seismic Risks To The Natural Gas Infrastructure To The UCLA Garrick Institute For The Risk Sciences
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The California Energy Commission recently awarded a $3.5 million research contract to UCLA to study seismic risk to the state’s natural gas infrastructure.
Read MorePresident of City University of Hong Kong and Several Distinguished Scholars at GIRS
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On September 25, 2019, Professor Way Kuo, the President of City University of Hong Kong (CityU), and several Distinguished Scholars, such as Professor Richard M. Walker, Professor Ho Shing Horace Ip, and Professor Chain Tsuan Liu, visited the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences (GIRS) to discuss prospective research collaborations.
Read MoreSeminar Invite: Characterizing Current and Future National Exposures of Infrastructure to Natural Disasters
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On August 27, 2019 from 10-11am in Engineering V Building, Room 2101, The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences cordially invites you to attend Dr. Henry H. Willis’s seminar on “Characterizing Current and Future National Exposures of Infrastructure to Natural Disasters.”
Read MoreHaoran Zhou Recipient of The Dr. Vincent Ho Scholarship for Risk Analysis
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The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences awards Haoran Zhou the Dr. Vincent Ho Scholarship for Risk Analysis.
Read MoreProf. Yousef Bozorgnia Receives 2019 Bruce Bolt Medal
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Congratulations to Professor Yousef Bozorgnia! On March 7, Dr. Bozorgnia accepted the Bruce Bolt Medal at EERI’s Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
Read MorePhysics- Based Probabilistic Model of the Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Polymeric Insulators of Electric Cables used in Nuclear Power Plants
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Physics- Based Probabilistic Model of the Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Polymeric Insulators of Electric Cables used in Nuclear Power Plants, Yuan- Shang Chang and Ali Mosleh, University of California Los Angeles. Published by U.S. Department of Energy. 30 January 2019.
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Quantifying Global Catastrophic Risks
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Proceedings of the One Day Workshop on Quantifying Global Catastrophic Risks, B. John Garrick (Ed), Published by The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Dec 2018
Read MoreProf. Yousef Bozorgnia Selected as 2019 Bruce Bolt Medal Recipient→
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The Consortium of Strong Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and SSA have selected Prof. Yousef Bozorgnia as the 2019 recipient of the Bruce Bolt Medal.
Read MoreGIRS at the UC ITS Forum on Innovative Mobility Research
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Dr. Mihai Diaconeasa represented the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at the UC Forum on Innovative Mobility organized by the UC Institute of Transportation Studies (UC ITS) in Sacramento on Friday, November 30th.
Read MoreGIRS Hosts 14th PSAM International Conference
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After two years of the PSAM committee coordinating this event, the PSAM conferences return to Los Angeles; where UCLA’s Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences (GIRS) had the privilege to welcome several colleagues and their families, from all over the world, to the fourteenth rendition of the Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM) Conference. GIRS was enthusiastic to host this event, since PSAM was founded by one of our very own Senior Fellows Dr. George Apostolakis. In 1991, the 1st PSAM Conference was organized in Beverly Hills, since then, the conferences have been held worldwide.
Read MoreInternational Workshop on Quantifying Global Catastrophic Risks
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A one-day workshop was held in conjunction with the PSAM 14 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management at the Luskin Convention Center on the UCLA campus September 16-21, 2018. The workshop was by invitation and involved approximately 30 scholars and practitioners from academia, research institutions, and the private sector to participate. The sponsors of the workshop were The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles; The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; and the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, USA.
Read MoreGIRS signs Cooperation Agreement on Maritime Risk and Smart Ship Research with WUT and NTNU
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Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) agree to establish a Research Partnership in Maritime Risk and Smart Ship (MSSS).
Read MoreRed Flags, Autonomous System Safety, and the importance of looking back before looking forward.
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Four “red flag” lessons to be learned from the history of automobiles and what they offer to the future of autonomous vehicles.
Read MoreProfessor Stewart Gives Lecture at the 11th NCEE
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Professor Jonathan P. Stewart gave a theme lecture at the 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (NCEE) on the topic of ground motion maps.
Read MoreMinh Cao (B.S. EE '18) Awarded Vincent Ho Scholarship
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Minh Cao, an undergraduate majoring in Electrical Engineering, was recently awarded the Vincent Ho Scholarship. Currently, Cao is an undergraduate intern at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at UCLA.
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