Natural Disaster Management
The increasing severity of natural disasters in the last decade has shocked the world. With this alarming change the scientific and technical communities have been working together to advance research and technology to prepare and protect our communities when the next disaster hits. The SUTA 2006 reunion will focus a portion of its lectures and panel discussions specifically on earthquakes. This series will kick off with and a presentation by Dr.Yousef Bozorgnia titled, "Earthquake as a universal problem: From the 1906 San Francisco, CA to 2003 Bam, Iran, earthquakes". The following presentation titled, "Necessary elements in earthquake risk reduction: Science, education, and profession", will be given by Dr. Mehdi Zarghamee.
Dr. Yousef Bozorgnia, Dr. Mehrdad Mehrain, Dr. Mansour Niazi, Dr. Mohsen Rahnama, and Dr. Mehdi Zarghamee have all graciously volunteered their time to take part in a short, one-hour panel discussion, “ Earthquakes as a Universal Problem: What can we do to help?” on our main stage. This panel discussion will continue as an afternoon feature for those interested, in a separate conference room.
Dr. Behrokh Khosnevis also will share with us his invention in how to build a structure in a short time, which is a great help in earthquake-ravaged communities.
Short biographies of the members of the panel on Disaster Management
(In alphabetical order)
Dr. Yousef Bozorgnia is Associate Director of Pacific
Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), University of California,
Berkeley. He received his B.S. degree from Sharif (Aryamehr) University
of Technology, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley.
Dr. Mehrdad Mehrain is Vice President of URS Corporation, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a faculty member at Sharif (Aryamehr) University of Technology.
Dr. Mansour Niazi is Principal of Berkeley Geophysical Consultants. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and was Vice Chancellor of Mashad University.
Dr. Mohsen Rahnama is Vice President of Risk Management Solutions, California. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, and was a faculty member at Sharif University of Technology.
Dr.
Mehdi Zarghamee is Principal of Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger,
Boston. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois and
was Chancellor of Sharif (Aryamehr) University of Technology.