[Abstract]:

Prof. Charles Scawthorn will provide a summary of his recent research, including:
• Resilient Infrastructure Grids
• Fire following earthquake and its mitigation
• Determining water distribution system pipe replacement given random defects
• Effect of major stress events on buried pipe
• Optimizing wildfire risk reduction measures
• A building classification system for multi-hazard risk assessment
For each topic, an overview of the research purpose, methods, and findings will be first provided, followed by an extended question and answer dialogue.

[Speaker's Brief Bio]: Professor Scawthorn is internationally recognized as an authority for the analysis and mitigation of natural and technological hazards. He retired in 2008 as Professor and head of the Earthquake Disaster Prevention Systems Laboratory, at Kyoto University (Japan), has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford, Beijing Normal, and Waseda (Tokyo) Universities, and is now a Visiting Researcher, at Univ. California at Berkeley. He is a consultant to the global insurance industry, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, local/state/federal agencies, and Global 1000 corporations. Dr. Scawthorn is a graduate of the Cooper Union, holds an M.S.C.E. degree from Lehigh University, and received his D.Eng. from Kyoto University.

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