The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) just awarded a research contract to the UCLA Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) to study Seismic Risk Assessment of Distributed Water Infrastructure Crossing Earthquake Faults in Southern California.
Read MoreTo the Class of 2020,
On behalf of the Garrick Institute, we want to extend our warmest congratulations to you on reaching this major milestone in life. Your hard work, patience, perseverance, and creativity has paid off. We recognize the last few months have been extremely difficult. However, you’ve managed to see the light during these dark times and your accomplishments will not be diminished. Together, we will continue to engineer change for the current and future generations to come.
Congratulations!
School of Engineering Virtual Commencement: Saturday, June 13 at 12:30pm PDT
Keo-Yuan Wu, Ph.D.
Materials Science and Engineering
Jaehyeong Lee, B.S.
Computer Science and Statistics
Amruth Mohan, M.S.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Omar Issa, B.S.
Civil Engineering
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) awards a $1.5 million research contract to the UCLA Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) to establish a Seismic Geohazard Research Program.
Read MoreCalifornia High-Speed Rail Awards a Major Research Grant to the Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) on Earthquake Fault Displacement Hazard Initiative
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Wadie Chalgham receives Audience Choice Award at UCLA's 2020 Grad Slam Finals.
Read MoreUC Santa Barbara (UCSB) joins UCLA, UCI, UCSD, USC, California Institute of Technology, and Southern California Earthquake Center.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreCongratulations to Dr. B. John Garrick! On November 18, Dr. Garrick received The 2019 W. Bennett Lewis Award for Sustainable Energy and Development.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreOn 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 MoreOn 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 MoreThe B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences awards Haoran Zhou the Dr. Vincent Ho Scholarship for Risk Analysis.
Read MoreCongratulations 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, Yuan- Shang Chang and Ali Mosleh, University of California Los Angeles. Published by U.S. Department of Energy. 30 January 2019.
Read MoreProceedings 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 MoreThe 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 MoreDr. 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 MoreAfter 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 MoreA 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.
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