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SUMMARY:Some Recent Advances and Perspectives in Catastrophe Risk Engineer
 ing for Multiple Natural Hazards
DTSTART:20191025T121500
DTEND:20191025T130000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Carmine Galasso\, Associate Professor of Catastrophe Risk E
 ngineering in the University College London (UCL)\, UK\nAbstract:\nProbabi
 listic catastrophe (CAT) risk models are becoming increasingly popular too
 ls for estimating potential loss due to natural hazards\, including earthq
 uakes\, windstorms\, and floods. Such models incorporate detailed database
 s and scientific understanding of the highly complex physical phenomena of
  natural hazards and engineering expertise about how infrastructure\, buil
 dings\, and their contents respond to those hazards.\nThis talk will prese
 nt some recent advances in CAT modelling for earthquake and wind\, namely:
  1) the use of physics-based and stochastic ground-motion simulations for 
 seismic hazard and risk modelling\; 2) the development of a real-time CAT 
 modelling framework for designing engineering applications of earthquake e
 arly warning\; 3) the development of computational tools (e.g.\, advanced 
 simulations\, machine-learning techniques) for modelling risk to offshore 
 wind energy\; 4) the proposal of a probabilistic framework to assess wind-
 seismic interaction in typical structural details (i.e.\, connections) of 
 tall steel buildings.\nThe talk will finally introduce and discuss some pe
 rspectives in CAT modelling for cascading and multiple hazards at differen
 t spatial scales (from a single asset to portfolio of buildings)\, with sp
 ecial focus on developing countries. In fact\, developing countries are di
 sproportionately affected by natural hazards and lack in coping capacities
 . CAT modelling for developing countries presents specific challenges in t
 erms of quantity and quality of the available input data. Specifically\, t
 his talk will present some highlights of a number of current UCL projects 
 on multi-hazard risk and resilience assessment of community-based infrastr
 ucture (e.g.\, schools\, hospitals\, heritage assets) in the Philippines\,
  Indonesia\, and China.\n \nBio:\nDr Carmine Galasso is an Associate Prof
 essor of Catastrophe Risk Engineering in the University College London (UC
 L)'s Department of Civil\, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering (CEGE)\, U
 K\, and a part-time Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the S
 cuola Universitaria Superiore (IUSS) Pavia\, Italy\, in the Centro di Form
 azione e Ricerca per la Mitigazione del Rischio Sismico (ROSE School). Pri
 or to joining UCL\, Carmine has worked as a Catastrophe Risk Modeler at Ap
 plied Insurance Research (AIR) Worldwide\, San Francisco\, USA\; and as a 
 Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Civil and Environment
 al Engineering\, Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Laboratory\, at 
 the University of California\, Irvine\, USA. Carmine earned his PhD in Ear
 thquake Risk at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II\, Italy\
 , in January 2011.\n\nCarmine’s research focuses on the development and 
 application of probabilistic and statistical methods and tools for catastr
 ophe risk modelling and disaster risk reduction. He is investigating risks
  to building portfolios and infrastructure exposed to multiple natural haz
 ards\, including earthquakes\, strong wind\, and flooding\, with special e
 mphasis on developing countries. He has authored >150 peer-reviewed papers
  and is/has been the PI on grants totaling £2M in the last three years. H
 e is a key co-I of the newly funded £19.6 million Global Challenges Resea
 rch Fund (GCRF) Urban Disaster Risk Hub\, where he chairs the Risk Modelli
 ng Technical Activity Group. His research is funded by the UK Research Cou
 ncils\, the European Commission (Horizon 2020)\, the British Council\, the
  Chinese International Centre for Collaborative Research on Disaster Risk 
 Reduction (ICCR-DRR)\, the China Scholarship Council (CSC)\, the (Mexican)
  Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)\, the World Bank and 
 its  Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)\, the Mo
 torola Solution Foundation\, and the Willis Research Network.\n 
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