EPICentre Seminars & Discussions

Several inspiring and engaging online presentations were delivered by researchers of different institutes as well as guest speakers from the relevant industries as part of the EPICentre Seminars and Discussions in 2020/21. The main audience of EPICentre seminars are the MSc Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management students, alongside EPICentre and CEGE academic staff, PhD students, Research Assistants and Fellows.

The following is the list of presenters and their discussed topics. The recording of all seminars can be found on EPICentre YouTube Channel.

• Disaster Resilience Analysis of Civil Eng. Systems Using Bayesian Network
  by Dr Ji-Eun Byun from UCL EPICentre

• Moving Beyond Safety & Fragility: Towards Equitable Seismic Risk Management
  by Felipe Rivera from UCL EPICentre
   
• A Decision-Making Methodology for Risk-Informed Earthquake Early Warning
  by Dr Gemma Cremen from UCL EPICentre
   
• Seismic Analysis of Confined Masonry Buildings with Flexible Diaphragm
  by Ahsana Parammal Vatteri from UCL EPICentre
   
• Bayesian Model for Capacity Factors of Offshore Wind Energy
  by Dr David Wilkie from UCL EPICentre
   
• Earthquake Risk Assessment: Current Challenges & Future Trends
  by Dr Vitor Silva, Risk Coordinator at GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE MODEL
   
• Dissipating System for Seismic Protection of Historic Masonry Structures
  by Victor Melatti from UCL EPICentre
   
• Resilience of Distributed Energy Resources to Earthquakes & Hurricanes
  by Dr Luis Ceferino, Assistant Professor at New York University
   
• State-dependent fragility for ground motion sequences traditional vs innovative
  by Dr Roberto Gentile from UCL EPICentre
   
• Probabilistic Optimization of Seismically Excited Cable-Stayed Bridges
  by Andrea Franchini from UCL EPICentre
   

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