Prof. 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.
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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
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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.
Read MoreATanalytics and GIRS win NASA's SBIR program on Autonomous Systems for Space Exploration
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NASA has selected the team of a startup company ATanalytics and GIRS for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase-I project titled "Assured Resilience for Autonomous Systems."
Read MoreApplication for MS Online Degree in Reliability Engineering Now Open
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The program is offered through the UCLA Online MS program which has been ranked #1 for three consecutive years by the US News and World Report.
Read MoreProfessor Mosleh Talks On Why And How We Do PRA
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Professor Mosleh presented on Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA).
Read MoreWorkshop on Quantifying Global Catastrophic Risks
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The topics to be presented and discussed will address the requirements, methods, challenges, and benefits of quantifying global catastrophic risks with examples.
Read MorePSA 2019 — Call for Abstracts
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Submissions are welcome until August 13, 2018. For detailed information, please refer to this pdf or visit the American Nuclear Society website.
Read MoreVideo Series | International Colloquium on Catastrophic & Existential Risk
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A new series of presentations made at the International Colloquium on Catastrophic & Existential Risk sponsored by The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences from March 27 to 29, 2017 has been uploaded.
Read MoreJonathan P. Stewart Awarded 2018 Bolt Medal→
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Jonathan P. Stewart, professor and chair of the civil and environmental engineering department at University of California, Los Angeles, was chosen as the 2018 recipient of the Bruce A. Bolt Medal.
Read MoreProceedings of the First International Colloquium on Catastrophic and Existential Risk
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Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Catastrophic and Existential Risk, B. John Garrick (Ed), Published by The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Dec 2017
