WCEE2024 PROGRAMME

	SUNDAY 30th June	MONDAY 1st July	TUESDAY 2nd July	WEDNESDAY 3rd July	THURSDAY 4th July	FRIDAY 5th July
09:00 - 10:30		Opening Ceremony and Plenary Addresses	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions
10:30 - 12:00		Stage sessions	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions
12:00 - 13:00		Keynote Lecture: Julian J. Bommer	Keynote Lecture: Ellen M. Rathje	Keynote Lecture: Xinzheng Lu	Keynote Lecture: Judith Mitrani-Reiser	Keynote Lecture: Dimitrios Vamvatsikos
Julian J. Bommer Imperial College London, UK Lecture title: Seismic hazard assessment for natural and induced earthquakes: Mmin, Mmax, and everything in between Ellen M. Rathje University of Texas, Austin, USA Lecture title: Regional-Scale Seismic Landslide Assessments for Distributed Infrastructure Systems Xinzheng Lu Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Lecture title: From “Simulation-driven” urban disaster mitigation to “Generative AI-powered” seismic design Judith Mitrani-Reiser National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Lecture title: Taking Measure: How Earthquake Reconnaissance Has Evolved Over Fifty Years Dimitrios Vamvatsikos National Technical University of Athens, Greece Lecture title: Criteria for selecting intensity measures in seismic risk assessment: What matters, what does not, and why
13:00 - 14:30		Lunch Session in Exhibition Area Conference Championship in Games Ground				Closing Ceremony
Working hard is important, but so too is having moments of relaxation and non-sedentary activity amongst friends and colleagues. Conference participants will thus be able to make use of the table tennis and table football facilities that we will be rendering available at the venue. And, because competition always renders physical activities even more fun, we are planning to organise two tournaments that will run in parallel throughout the event, with the top teams being then awarded at the Conference’s closing ceremony. During the registration phase you will be asked to express your potential interest in taking part in the table tennis and/or table football championship, and then we will get back to you for further details on the tournament organisation. You might want to start getting some training sessions in!
14:30 - 16:00		Stage sessions - Monitor sessions	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions	Stage sessions - Monitor sessions	Technical Visits
16:00 - 17:00		CSI/IAEE Master Series Lecture: Steve Kramer	CSI/IAEE Master Series Lecture: Jack P. Moehle	CSI/IAEE Master Series Lecture: Li Li Xie	CSI/IAEE Master Series Lecture: Michele Calvi
This is an initiative of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE), deployed with the support of Computers & Structures Inc. (CSI), aimed at creating an opportunity for the younger generations of researchers and practitioners to meet in person illustrious representatives of the older generation of scholars in our field. At this link you may find the captivating Masters’ lectures that were delivered at the previous world conference. In addition to the oral presentations included in the conference programme, it is also foreseen that (hard-copy) monographs prepared by each one of the four IAEE-invited distinguished scholars will be distributed to all participants of the conference. These volumes will feature overviews of the history of developments in a given technical area and/or discussion of significant past applications or milestone scientific advancements and/or an insight on future needs, challenges and opportunities. The four Masters Lectures defined by IAEE for the WCEE2024 are: Steve Kramer University of Washington, USA Lecture title: The Evolution of Performance-Based Design in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Jack P. Moehle University of California at Berkeley, USA Lecture title: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering: A Chronicle in Five Easy Pieces Li Li Xie Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration (CEA), China Lecture title: Ranking strong earthquake ground motion recordings based on the degree of damage to structures caused by the whole time history Michele Calvi University School for Advanced Studies – IUSS Pavia, Italy Lecture title: The art of seismic design
17:00 - 18:00			EERI Distinguished Lecture: Michael Olsen	Invited Plenary Talk Ashraf Habibullah	EERI/SSA Joyner Lecture: Helen Crowley
EERI The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) confers an annual Distinguished Lecture Award to recognize and encourage communication of outstanding professional contributions of major importance for earthquake hazard mitigation. The recipients of such award then prepare an address on the agreed topic for presentation at the EERI Annual Meeting and at a series of lectures typically delivered at different US venues. In addition, and in cooperation with the Seismological Society of America (SSA), the William B. Joyner Memorial Lecture series is also awarded annually. Presented at the Annual Meetings of SSA and EERI, as well as at locations of the lecturer’s choosing, the lectures bring scientists and engineers together in an effort to make our world a safer one–just as Joyner himself did so brilliantly. Thanks to the close collaboration between the WCEE2024 Organising Committee and EERI, this Conference will provide, for the first-time, a unique and exciting opportunity to render the 2024 edition of these two prestigious Annual Lectures available to a global audience. Michael Olsen Oregon State University, USA Lecture title: Geospatial Technology – Saving the world’s past, present and future from natural hazards Helen Crowley Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation, Italy Lecture title: Why seismic hazard modelling has become a risky business INVITED PLENARY TALK The industry sector plays a paramount role in the development of tools and solutions for the reduction of the seismic risk. As such, we felt that it would be most pertinent for this Conference to feature also a plenary talk from the industry, and no-one seemed more fitting than Ashraf Habibullah, President and CEO of Computers and Structures, Inc (CSI). Ashraf graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970 with a master’s degree in structural engineering. He founded CSI in 1975 and has led the development of CSI’s products, including SAP2000 and ETABS, for nearly five decades. Today, CSI is recognized globally as the pioneer in the development of software for structural and earthquake engineering. CSI’s software is used by thousands of engineering firms and is the choice of sophisticated design professionals in over 160 countries. Ashraf Habibullah Computers and Structures, Inc Talk title: Engineering is About People! An Introduction to Human Engineering
We are planning to organise technical visits to large-scale structural testing laboratories in the vicinity of the conference venue, such as the European Laboratory for Structural Assessmenti (ELSA) at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE) in Pavia, etc. As soon as further details on these potential activities will be available, we will let you know (through the updating of this webpage and the sending out of an announcement).
18:00 - 19:00	Check-in & Welcome Reception	Conference Championship on Games Ground Side Events & Work meetings
Working hard is important, but so too is having moments of relaxation and non-sedentary activity amongst friends and colleagues. Conference participants will thus be able to make use of the table tennis and table football facilities that we will be rendering available at the venue. And, because competition always renders physical activities even more fun, we are planning to organise two tournaments that will run in parallel throughout the event, with the top teams being then awarded at the Conference’s closing ceremony. During the registration phase you will be asked to express your potential interest in taking part in the table tennis and/or table football championship, and then we will get back to you for further details on the tournament organisation. You might want to start getting some training sessions in!
From 20:00	Check-in & Welcome Reception	Opera Show at "La Scala" Theatre			Conference party

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