GIRS Welcomes Associate Professor Jiaqi Ma
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The Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences is excited to welcome UCLA’s newest faculty member, Associate Professor Jiaqi Ma!
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NEWS & EVENTS
NGA-East Earthquake Ground Motion Models Validated by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) just released a report that concludes the NGA-East Ground Motion Characterization Model is…
Read MoreIn Memoriam: B. John Garrick, Pioneer in Development and Application of Risk Sciences
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B. John Garrick, the founder of the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences, an international authority on Quantitative Risk Assessment, and a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA
Read MoreWadie Chalgham 2nd place graduate student winner of the 2020 SER2AD Student Safety Innovation Challenge
/Congratulations to Wadie Chalgham, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, for his paper being accepted as the 2nd place graduate student winner of the 2020 SER2AD Student Safety Innovation Challenge. He will be awarded and will present his paper during the IMECE 2020 conference in Portland, Oregon on November 15-19, 2020.
NHR3 Awarded Research Project on Seismic Risk Assessment of Distributed Water Infrastructure Crossing Earthquake Faults in Southern California
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) just awarded a research contract to the UCLA Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) to study Seismic Risk Assessment of Distributed Water Infrastructure Crossing Earthquake Faults in Southern California.
Read MoreCongratulations Class of 2020!
/To the Class of 2020,
On behalf of the Garrick Institute, we want to extend our warmest congratulations to you on reaching this major milestone in life. Your hard work, patience, perseverance, and creativity has paid off. We recognize the last few months have been extremely difficult. However, you’ve managed to see the light during these dark times and your accomplishments will not be diminished. Together, we will continue to engineer change for the current and future generations to come.
Congratulations!
School of Engineering Virtual Commencement: Saturday, June 13 at 12:30pm PDT
Special shout out to GIRS Class of 2020!
Keo-Yuan Wu, Ph.D.
Materials Science and Engineering
Jaehyeong Lee, B.S.
Computer Science and Statistics
Amruth Mohan, M.S.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Omar Issa, B.S.
Civil Engineering
Caltrans awards $1.5 million research grant to UCLA to establish Seismic Geohazard Research Program
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The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) awards a $1.5 million research contract to the UCLA Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) to establish a Seismic Geohazard Research Program.
Read MoreCalifornia High-Speed Rail Awards a Major Research Grant to the Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) on Earthquake Fault Displacement Hazard Initiative
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California High-Speed Rail Awards a Major Research Grant to the Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) on Earthquake Fault Displacement Hazard Initiative
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Wadie Chalgham wins Audience Choice Award at UCLA's 2020 Grad Slam Finals
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Wadie Chalgham receives Audience Choice Award at UCLA's 2020 Grad Slam Finals.
Read MoreUC Santa Barbara joins NHR3
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UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) joins UCLA, UCI, UCSD, USC, California Institute of Technology, and Southern California Earthquake Center.
Read MoreSeminar Invite: PRA and Risk-Informed Decision Making at the NRC: Some Trends and Challenges
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The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences cordially invites you to attend Dr. Nathan Siu’s seminar on “PRA and Risk-Informed Decision Making at the NRC: Some Trends and Challenges.” The seminar will take place on February 21, 2020 from 1-2pm at UCLA in Engineering V Building Room 5101.
Read MoreDr. B. John Garrick accepts The 2019 W. Bennett Lewis Award for Sustainable Energy and Development
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Congratulations to Dr. B. John Garrick! On November 18, Dr. Garrick received The 2019 W. Bennett Lewis Award for Sustainable Energy and Development.
Read MoreCalifornia Energy Commission Awards $3.5 Million Research Grant On Seismic Risks To The Natural Gas Infrastructure To The UCLA Garrick Institute For The Risk Sciences
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The California Energy Commission recently awarded a $3.5 million research contract to UCLA to study seismic risk to the state’s natural gas infrastructure.
Read MorePresident of City University of Hong Kong and Several Distinguished Scholars at GIRS
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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.
Read MoreSeminar Invite: Characterizing Current and Future National Exposures of Infrastructure to Natural Disasters
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On August 27, 2019 from 10-11am in Engineering V Building, Room 2101, The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences cordially invites you to attend Dr. Henry H. Willis’s seminar on “Characterizing Current and Future National Exposures of Infrastructure to Natural Disasters.”
Read MoreHaoran Zhou Recipient of The Dr. Vincent Ho Scholarship for Risk Analysis
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The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences awards Haoran Zhou the Dr. Vincent Ho Scholarship for Risk Analysis.
Read MoreProf. 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.
Read MorePhysics- 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
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