Program

PEER at 21:
The Practice of Performance-Based Engineering for Natural Hazards

Thursday January 18 Schedule

8:00 – 8:30 am Slusser / Auditorium	REGISTRATION / BREAKFAST
8:30 – 9:00 am Auditorium	PLENARY – 1: PEER Overview Khalid Mosalam, PEER Director (video)
9:00 – 10:30 am Auditorium	PLENARY – 2: Earthquake Hazard Characterization Moderator – Yousef Bozorgnia, UC Los Angeles & UC Berkeley Overview of NGA-East and NGA-Subduction Research Programs – Yousef Bozorgnia Overview and Status of NGL Research Project – Jonathan Stewart, UC Los Angeles Design of New Bridges in the Western US for Tsunami Loading – Patrick Lynett, USC Discussion – ALL
10:30 – 10:45 am Auditorium	BREAK
10:45 – 12:15 pm Auditorium	PLENARY – 3: Performance-Based Engineering: Applications Moderator – Greg Deierlein, Stanford University Multi-Hazard Performance-Based Engineering Approaches to Upgrading San Francisco’s Seawall – Steven Reel, Port of San Francisco Programs and Incentives to Improve Resilience of California Housing – Janiele Maffei, California Earthquake Authority Probabilistic Damage Control Application (PDCA) in Performance Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE)– Mark Mahan, Caltrans Performance-Based Concepts on Pacific Northwest Infrastructure Projects – Lee Marsh, BergerABAM Engineers Discussion – ALL
12:15 – 1:30 pm Slusser / Auditorium	LUNCH & Special Presentation Special Presentation: PEER – The First Decade – Jack Moehle, UC Berkeley (video)
1:30 – 3:00 pm Auditorium	PLENARY – 4: Performance-Based Engineering: Research Moderator – Ian Buckle, University of Nevada, Reno Seismic Risk to Transportation Networks: User Impacts and At-Risk Communities – Jack Baker, Stanford University Recovery Model for Commercial Buildings – Vezna Terzic, Cal State Long Beach Probabilistic Performance-Based Optimum Design for Seismic Isolation for a California High-Speed Rail Prototype Bridge – Joel Conte, UC San Diego Towards a Performance Assessment Calculation Tool (PACT) for Bridge Systems – Ahmed Elgamal, UC San Diego Estimating the Impact of Magnitude 9 Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes on Seattle Buildings Using Simulated Ground Motions – Jeff Berman, University of Washington Discussion – ALL
3:00 – 3:15 pm	BREAK
3:15 – 4:45 pm Auditorium	PLENARY – 5: Engineering and Public Policy for Earthquake Resilient Communities Moderator – Henry Burton, UC Los Angeles Ongoing Lessons from Recent Large-Scale Disasters – David O. Prevatt, University of Florida Post-Earthquake Housing Recovery Modeling – Henry Burton, UC Los Angeles Seismic Risk Models for Adaptive Decision Making – Ji Yun Lee, Washington State University Resilience Modeling for Transportation Networks – Gian Paolo Cimellaro, Politecnico di Torino Performance-Based Design for Community Resilience – David Bonowitz, NCSEA Resilience Committee Discussion – ALL
4:45 – 5:15 pm Auditorium	PLENARY – 6: *Closure* Khalid Mosalam 2017 Blind Prediction Contest Winner
5:30 – 7:30 pm Great Hall	POSTER SESSION & RECEPTION VIRTUAL POSTER SESSION
6:30 – 8:30 pm	BIP Dinner (by invitation only)

Friday January 19 Schedule

8:00 – 8:30 am	REGISTRATION / BREAKFAST Location: Slusser / Auditorium
8:30 – 9:00 am	PLENARY – 7 : Opening & Keynote Presentation Location: Auditorium Khalid Mosalam Keynote Presentation: Extreme Events Reconnaissance: The Promise and Possibility of Collaborative Social Science and Engineering Research – Lori Peek, Natural Hazards Center (video)
9:00 – 10:30 am	CONCURRENT DISCUSSION – C1: Buildings Moderator – Jack Moehle, UC Berkeley Location: Auditorium Update to the PEER TBI Guidelines for Tall Buildings – Ron Hamburger, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Modeling and Acceptance Criteria: RC Core Wall Buildings – John Wallace & Amin Safdari, UC Los Angeles, Kristijan Kolozvari, Cal State Fullerton High-Strength Reinforcement in Earthquake-Resistant Buildings – Greg Deierlein & Kuanshi Zhong, Stanford University Implications of the FEMA P-58 Methodology for Structural System Selection and Design – John D. Hooper, Magnusson Klemencic Associates, John Gillengerten, California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (Retired), David Bonneville, Degenkolb Engineers Discussion – ALL CONCURRENT DISCUSSION – C2: *Characterization of Geohazards* Moderator – Tom Shantz, Caltrans Location: Ida / Robert Sproul NGA-East – Christine Goulet, UC Berkeley NGA-Subduction – Yousef Bozorgnia, UC Los Angeles & UC Berkeley Synthetic Near-Fault Ground Motions with Improved Stochastic Model and Simulation Procedure – Armen Der Kiureghian, American University of Armenia Recorded Ground Motions at Liquefaction Sites – Steve Kramer, University of Washington Webtools – Silvia Mazzoni, UC Berkeley Discussion – ALL
10:30 – 10:45 am	BREAK
10:45 – 12:15 pm	CONCURRENT DISCUSSION – C3: *Bridges* Moderator – Sashi Kunnath, UC Davis Location: Auditorium Raising Performance Standards in Post-Earthquake Serviceability of Precast Bridge Columns and Piers with Advanced Materials – Saiid Saiidi, University of Nevada, Reno Dynamic Testing of a Two-Column Resilient Bent – José Restrepo & Arpit Nema, UC San Diego Hybrid Simulation and Seismic Testing of Environmentally Damaged Bridges – Claudia Ostertag, UC Berkeley Development of Bridge Column Capacity Limit States for Next Generation Shakecast Platform – Sashi Kunnath, UC Davis CONCURRENT DISCUSSION – C4: Designing for Geohazards Moderator – Steve Kramer, University of Washington Location: Ida / Robert Sproul Mitigation of Ground Deformations in Soft Ground – Ross W. Boulanger, UC Davis Kinematic Soil-Structure Interaction Effects on Deep Foundations and Earth Retention Systems – Scott J. Brandenberg, UC Los Angeles Project Overview: Next Generation py Relationships – State of Practice/State of the Art – Ann Lemnitzer, UC Irvine Discussion – ALL
12:15 – 1:30 pm	LUNCH & Special Presentation Location: Slusser / Auditorium Special Presentation: Learning with Confidence: Theory and Practice of Information Geometric Learning from High-dimensional Sensory Data – Lin Zhang, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (video)
1:30 – 3:00 pm	PLENARY – 8: Computational Simulation Moderators – Frank McKenna & Filip Filippou Location: Auditorium Recent Advances in Tsunami Simulation – Patrick Lynett, USC Towards Exascale Simulations for Regional Earthquake Hazard and Risk – David McCallen, LBNL A Workflow Framework for Regional Resiliency Assessment in Natural Hazards – Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley Workflows and Logistics of Large-Scale Probabilistic Risk and Rapid Post-Event Assessment Frameworks for Bridges and Buildings – Ertugrul Taciroglu, UC Los Angeles Investigating the Performance of Transport Infrastructure Using Real-Time Data and a Scalable Agent-Based Model – Kenichi Soga, UC Berkeley Discussion – ALL
3:00 – 3:15 pm	BREAK
3:15 – 4:00pm	PLENARY – 9: Reports & Wrap Up Khalid Mosalam (video) Location: Auditorium

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