President of City University of Hong Kong and Several Distinguished Scholars at GIRS

President of City University of Hong Kong and Several Distinguished Scholars at GIRS

On 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.

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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

Physics- Based Probabilistic Model of the Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Polymeric Insulators of Electric Cables used in Nuclear Power Plants

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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GIRS Hosts 14th PSAM International Conference

GIRS Hosts 14th PSAM International Conference

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.

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International Workshop on Quantifying Global Catastrophic Risks

International Workshop on Quantifying Global Catastrophic Risks

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.

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