Working Groups are a pivotal organizational component of the SimCenter that are composed of senior faculty, development staff, and interested external participants. The Working Groups’ tasks are to guide continuing software development, plan and conduct test cases, engage users through courses, outreach to other researchers, and to educate the community through webinars and mentoring of REU students. The primary activities of the Working Groups are to advise on software development priorities, use software in their teaching and research, and communicate with the research community about opportunities and capabilities of the SimCenter framework. Working Groups hold regular meetings and report to SimCenter Leadership in monthly meetings.
Lead: Rachel Davidson, (University of Delaware)
Affiliated SimCenter Personnel: Jack Baker (Stanford Univ.), Ann-Margaret Esnard (Georgia State Univ.)
Developer Liaison: Stevan Gavrilovic (UC Berkeley)
Charge: The SEIR working group is currently focused on two main goals: (1) Encouraging and supporting use of R2D as it currently exists; and (2) Identifying, prioritizing, and beginning to implement the next models and data to be linked or added to R2D. Towards these aims, we are actively soliciting input from a wide range of social scientists and engineers who may use R2D and/or contribute models or data in the future about how R2D can best serve their research and education needs.
How to get involved: Inquiries should be sent to Stevan Gavrilovic <gavrilovic@berkeley.edu>.
Lead: Greg Deierlien (Stanford)
Affiliated SimCenter Personnel: Laura Lowes (UW), Jon Bray (UC Berkeley), Henry Burton (UCLA), Pedro Arduino (UW)
Developer Liaison: Jinyan Zhao (UC Berkeley)
Charge: This task group is focused on guiding the development and research applications of software to simulate the effects of earthquakes on buildings, transportation and utility systems, and communities. The scope includes (1) developing data models and API’s to integrate earthquake hazard software and data (e.g., OpenSHA, OpenQuake, physics-based simulations) in SimCenter workflows, (2) coordinate with other SimCenter working groups on common issues concerning inventories, socio-economic effects, and UQ developments, (3) develop a data integration framework for multi-fidelity models (geotechnical, structural, socio-economic, civil infrastructure systems) into high-resolution regional simulations, and (4) develop and promote activities to engage the research and education communities in earthquake engineering, risk and recovery. The working group supports development of the following SimCenter tools: PBE/pelicun, R2D/rwhale, EE-UQ, and quoFEM.
How to get involved: Inquiries should be sent to Jinyan Zhao <jinyan_zhao@berkeley.edu>.
Lead: Tracy Kijewski-Correa (Notre Dame)
Affiliated SimCenter Personnel: Andrew Kennedy (Notre Dame), Michael Motley (Univ of Washington), Patrick Lynett (USC)
Developer Liaison: Abiy Melaku (UC Berkeley)
Other Working Group Members: Mohammad Alam (Notre Dame)
Charge:
Current Priorities: The initial scaffolding of the regional simulation workflow for hurricanes culminated in two testbeds (Lake Charles, LA and Atlantic County, NJ) with particular emphasis on the treatment of wind hazards. Thus the working group is currently focused on:
How to get involved: Inquiries should be sent to Abiy Melaku <afmelaku@berkeley.edu>
Lead: Ertugrul Taciroglu (UCLA)
Affiliated SimCenter Personnel: Kenichi Soga (UC Berkeley), Satish Rao (UC Berkeley) Stella Yu (Univ. of Michigan)
Developer Liaison: Adam Zsarnóczay (Stanford Univ.) and Barbaros Cetiner (UC Berkeley)
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How to get involved: Inquiries should be sent to Adam Zsarnóczay <adamzs@stanford.edu>.
Lead: Ahsan Kareem (Notre Dame)
Affiliated SimCenter Personnel: Catherine Gorle (Stanford), Seymour Spence (Univ. of Michigan)
Developer Liaison: Abiy Melaku (UC Berkeley)
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How to get involved: Inquiries should be sent to Abiy Melaku <afmelaku@berkeley.edu>.
Lead: Alexandros Taflanidis (Notre Dame)
Affiliated SimCenter Personnel: Sanjay Govindjee (UC Berkeley), Michael Shields (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Dimitrios Giovanis (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Joel Conte (UCSD)
Developer Liaison: Sang-ri Yi (UC Berkeley) and Aakash Bangalore Satish (UC Berkeley)
Charge: The Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) working group facilitates the integration of computational statistics tools to address uncertainty characterization and propagation in natural hazards engineering problems. Developments coming out of the working group permeate across all SimCenter products for which uncertainty plays an important role. Topics of emphasis include the efficient uncertainty propagation for performance based engineering and regional loss assessment applications, and the Bayesian formulation of model calibration problems.
How to get involved: Inquiries should be sent to Sang-ri Yi <yisangri@berkeley.edu>.
Lead: Stella Yu (University of Michigan)
Affiliated SimCenter Personnel: Seymour Spence (University of Michigan), Satish Rao (UC Berkeley), Frank McKenna (UC Berkeley), Henry Burton, (UCLA), Ertugrul Taciroglu (UCLA)
Developer Liaison: Ge Zhang (University of Michigan)
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How to get involved: Inquiries should be sent to Ge Zhang (University of Michigan) <zge@umich.edu>.