Past Events

2025

Date	Title	Presenter/Location
July 16-18	NHERI SPARC	TACC, UT Austin
June 16-20 July 28- Aug 1	SimCenter Programming Bootcamp (Session 1 - Python) (Session 2 - C/C++/HPC Workshop)	Online
May 19	15th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, St. Louis, Missouri Workshop: Deploying SimCenter Tools to Enhance Wind Engineering Research and Practice (pdf)	Matthew Schoettler, Corinna Fong and Abiy Melaku, University of California, Berkeley
February 5-7	2025 NHERI Computational Symposium, Luskin Center, University of California, Los Angeles	Luskin Center, University of California, Los Angeles

2024

Date	Title	Presenter
Aug 21 - 23	Using BRAILS for Computer Vision Applications in Natural Hazards Engineering Workshop	Barbaros Cetiner, UC Berkeley
July 29 - Aug 2	SimCenter Programming Bootcamp	Online
July 23-26	2024 NHERI Computational Academy	Austin, TX
May 16	2024 NHERI Summit	University of Maryland
February 1-2	2024 NHERI Computational Symposium, Luskin Center, University of California, Los Angeles	Luskin Center, University of California, Los Angeles

2023

Date	Title	Presenter
July 17-20	NHERI Computational Academy	Aakash Bangalore Satish, Abiy Melaku, UC Berkeley
June 5-16	NHERI-SimCenter 2023 Programming Bootcamp Session 1 (C / C++) June 5-9 Session 2 (Python) June 12-16	Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
February 24	Live Expert Tips: Characterizing the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flow in CFD Simulations using WE-UQ	Fei Ding, UC Berkeley
January 27	Live Expert Tips: Regional-Level Building Inventory Generation for Natural Hazards Studies Using BRAILS	Barbaros Cetiner, UC Berkeley
January 6	Live Expert Tips: Explore, Calibrate, and Propagate Uncertainties through Finite Element Models using quoFEM	Aakash Bangalore Satish, UC Berkeley

2022

Date	Title	Presenter
December 2	Live Expert Tips: Global Sensitivity Analysis for High Dimensional Outputs using quoFEM	Sang-ri Yi, UC Berkeley
November 4	2022 SimCenter Symposium	TACC, University of Texas
September 26-30	Machine Learning Training for Natural Hazards Engineering	Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
July 18-22	Programming Bootcamp (Session 2 - Introduction to C/C++/HPC)	Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
June 13-17	Programming Bootcamp (Session 1 - Python)	Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
May 6	Live Expert Tips: How to develop and deploy surrogate models for structural response prediction in EE-UQ	Kuanshi Zhong, Stanford University
April 1	Live Expert Tips: Replacing a computationally expensive simulation with a Gaussian process surrogate model in quoFEM	Sang-ri Yi, UC Berkeley
March 18	Live Expert Tips: Regional Assessment Analysis with User-Provided Fragility Functions in R2D	Stevan Gavrilovic, UC Berkeley
February 23	Tool Training Workshop: Uncertainty Quantification Training for Application to Natural Hazards Engineering - Day 2	Aakash Bangalore Satish, UC Berkeley Adam Zsarnóczay, Stanford University
February 22	Tool Training Workshop: Uncertainty Quantification Training for Application to Natural Hazards Engineering - Day 1	Sang-ri Yi, UC Berkeley
February 18	Live Expert Tips: pelicun	Dr. Adam Zsarnóczay, Stanford University
February 11	Regional Resilience Determination Tool (R2D) Workshop for Social Scientists and Recovery Researchers	Stevan Gavrilovic, UC Berkeley
January 28	Live Expert Tips: Hydro-UQ	Dr. Ajay B. Harish, University of Manchester (UK)
January 11	Community Meeting	Sanjay Govindjee, SimCenter Director Greg Deierlein, co-Director Laura Lowes, University of Washington

2021

Date	Title	Presenter
December 10	Live Expert Tips: Calibrating an OpenSees Material Model using Experimental Data in quoFEM	Aakash Bangalore Satish, UC Berkeley
December 3	Live Expert Tips: Regional Resilience Analysis with GIS with R2D	Stevan Gavrilovic, UC Berkeley
November 19	Live Expert Tips: Fluid-Structure Interaction with OpenFOAM and OpenSees with Hydro-UQ	Dr. Ajay B. Harish, University of Manchester (UK)
November 12	Live Expert Tips: Global Sensitivity Analysis on a Structural System in quoFEM	Sang-ri Yi, UC Berkeley
October 29	Live Expert Tips: Ground Motion Selection & Scaling for Nonlinear Time History Analysis in EE-UQ	Dr. Kuanshi Zhong, Stanford University
August 13	2021 AI Workshop Day 3 - Neural Network Architectures	Yunhui Guo, UC Berkeley
August 12	2021 AI Workshop Day 2 - Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation	Barbaros Cetiner, UCLA
August 11	2021 AI Workshop Day 1 - Introduction to Machine Learning (Part1-2 and Part3) and BRAILS	Charles Wang, UC Berkeley
July 28 & 29	Studying Coastal Hazards with Hydro-UQ	Ajay B. Harish, UC Berkeley Aakash B. Satish, UC Berkeley Sang-ri Yi, UC Berkeley Kuanshi Zhong, Stanford University
July 1	Regional Resilience Determination Tool (R2D): Hurricane Wind Field Simulations	Stevan Gavrilovic, UC Berkeley
May 25	quoFEM Tool Training - Day 2	Aakash B. Satish, UC Berkeley Sang-ri Yi, UC Berkeley
May 24	quoFEM Tool Training - Day 1	Aakash B. Satish, UC Berkeley Sang-ri Yi, UC Berkeley
May 21	Regional Resilience Determination Tool: R2D Tool	Stevan Gavrilovic, UC Berkeley

2020

Date	Title	Presenter
December 4	Model- and Prototype-Scale Physical Modeling of Wave Attenuation and Wave Force Reduction by a Mangrove Forest	Professor Tori Tomiczek, Assistant Professor, U.S. Naval Academy
November 23	Advances in Modeling & Simulation: Computational Frameworks for the Implementation of Performance-Based Wind Engineering	Dr. Seymour M. J. Spence, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
October 16	Advances in Modeling & Simulation: Partial Turbulence Simulation for Predicting Peak Wind Loads on Buildings	Dr. Maryam Asghari Mooneghi, AECOM, California State University, Sacramento
October 6	Advances in Modeling & Simulation: Hurricane Loss Analysis for Single-Family Houses Considering Current and Changing Climate Conditions	Dr. Michele Barbato, UC Davis
August 5	Advances in Modeling & Simulation: Effects of Flow Shielding & Channeling on Loading of Coastal Structures	Andrew Winter, University of Washington
July 24	Natural Hazards Engineering 101: Inundation and Wave Loading Processes in Hurricane Scenarios	Andrew Kennedy, University of Notre Dame
July 10	WE-UQ Tool Training - Day 3: Computational Wind Engineering with TinF and User-provided CFD Event Options in WE-UQ	Wael Elhaddad, UC Berkeley
July 9	WE-UQ Tool Training - Day 2: Introduction to the Turbulence Inflow (TinF) Tool	Ahsan Kareem, University of Notre Dame Jiawei Wan, University of Notre Dame
July 8	WE-UQ Tool Training - Day 1: Introduction to WE-UQ and Exploring Stochastic and Database Event Options	Ahsan Kareem, University of Notre Dame Frank McKenna, University of California, Berkeley
June 24	Advances in Modeling & Simulation: Predicting the Wind Pressure Coefficient Distribution on a High-Rise Building Using Computational Fluid Dynamics	Catherine Gorlé, Stanford University
June 24	Performance Based Engineering (PBE) Tool Training - Day 3: Introduction to Pelicun, the engine behind PBE	Adam Zsarnóczay, Stanford University
June 23	Performance Based Engineering (PBE) Tool Training - Day 2: Advanced loss modeling in PBE Day	Adam Zsarnóczay, Stanford University
June 22	Performance Based Engineering (PBE) Tool Training - Day 1: Introduction to the PBE Application Day	Adam Zsarnóczay, Stanford University
June 19	EE-UQ Tool Training - Day 3: Site response analysis using s3hark	Charles Wang, University of Florida
June 18	EE-UQ Tool Training - Day 2: Earthquake events in EE-UQ Day	Wael Elhaddad, UC Berkeley
June 17	EE-UQ Tool Training - Day 1: Introduction EE-UQ and Modeling Options	Frank Mckenna, UC Berkeley
June 16	quoFEM Tool Training - Day 2	Adam Zsarnóczay, Stanford University
June 15	quoFEM Tool Training - Day 1	Frank Mckenna, UC Berkeley

2019

Date	Title	Presenter
December 19	Advances in Computational Modeling and Simulation: Gathering Data for Natural Hazards Engineering Using Web Automation	Wael Elhaddad, UC Berkeley
April 30	Earthquake and Loss Assessment with SimCenter's PBE Application	Adam Zsarnóczay, Stanford University
April 23	Uncertainty Characterization in Earthquake Engineering Simulation: An Introduction to SimCenter's EE-UQ Tool	Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley, NHERI SimCenter
February 25	Running Large-Scale Regional Hazards and Loss Simulations	Wael Elhaddad, UC Berkeley

2018

Date	Title	Presenter
November 14	HPC Ground Motion Simulations of Large Hayward Fault Earthquakes	Arthur Rodgers Seismologist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
November 6	AI & Machine Learning in Natural Hazards Engineering: Technical & Modelling Q & A	Stella Yu, UC Berkeley
October 24	UQ Computational Advances for Natural Hazard Risk Assessment	Alexandros Taflanidis, University of Notre Dame
October 2	AI & Machine Learning in NHE: Approaches to Deep Learning	Stella Yu, UC Berkeley
September 26	Application Framework for Regional Earthquake Loss Estimation (Supporting Materials)	Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley Wael Elhaddad, UC Berkeley
February 21	Early Career Researcher Forum: Tsunami-Induced Turbulent Coherent Structures: Large-Scale Experimental Observations and Interpretation	Nikos Kalligeris, UCLA

2017

Date	Title	Presenter
December 13	Early Career Researcher Forum: HPC Aided Seismic Risk Assessment of Vertical Concrete Dry Casks	Majid Ebad Sichani and Jamie Padgett, Rice University
November 1	Early Career Researcher Forum: Modeling of 500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone Tsunami Inundation	Xinsheng (Shawn) Qin, University of Washington
October 10	Early Career Researcher Forum: Numerical Simulation of Concentrically Braced Frames using OpenSees	Andrew Sen, University of Washington
August 30	Natural Hazards Engineering 101: Understanding Tsunamis and Their Effects	Harry Yeh, Oregon State University
June 28	Early Career Researcher Forum: Uncertainty Analysis of Structural Seismic Response Parameters	Zachary Caamano-Withall, UC San Diego
June 12	Natural Hazards Engineering 101: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Simulation & Computational Tools	Ahsan Kareem, University of Notre Dame
May 17	Natural Hazards Engineering 101: Exploring Wind Engineering	Arindam Chowdhury, Peter Irwin, Ioannis Zisis, FIU
April 26	Natural Hazards Engineering 101: Introduction to Wind Engineering	Dr. Kurtis R. Gurley, University of Florida
April 19	Early Career Researcher Forum: HPC Aided Optimization of Viscous Damped Steel Buildings	Shanshan Wang