"Making Rational Decisions Under Uncertainty and Model Complexity"
A Celebration in Honor of Professor James L. Beck's Career and Tenure at Caltech
"Making Rational Decisions Under Uncertainty and Model Complexity"
A Celebration in Honor of Professor James L. Beck's Career and Tenure at Caltech |
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| Home | About Jim | Program | Registration | Venue and Lodging | Organization | Contact |
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Friday, February 3, 2017
| 9:00-9:30 am | Breakfast/Coffee (Hameetman) |
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| 9:30-9:45 am | Introduction (Judy Mitrani-Reiser) |
| 9:45-11:30 am | Session 1: Bayesian Inference (Chairs: Alexandros Taflanidis, TBD) |
| (9:45-10:20 am) | Ivan Au “Bayesian Operational Modal Analysis” |
| (10:20-10:55 am) | Andrew Stuart “Blending Mathematical Models and Data” |
| (10:55-11:30 am) | Stephen Wu “Information Transferability in a Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification Perspective” |
| 11:30 am-1:30 pm | Lunch (Avery) |
| 1:30-3:15 pm | Session 2: Seismology (Chair: Ayhan Irfanoglu, TBD) |
| (1:30-2:05 pm) | Tom Heaton “Seismic Early Warning; So many Decisions … So little Time” |
| (2:05-2:40 pm) | Sarah Minson “Embracing Uncertainty in Earthquake Modeling” |
| (2:40-3:15 pm) | Mark Simons “Lessons learned from the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku- Oki earthquake in northern Japan” |
| 3:15-3:50 pm | Coffee Break (Hameetman) |
| 3:50-5:00 pm | Session 3: Performance Based Engineering (Chair: Stephen |
| (3:50-4:25 pm) | Ayhan Irfanoglu “Runaway Engineering: Performance-based Earthquake Engineering” |
| (4:25-5:00 pm) | Judy Mitrani-Reiser “Performance-Based Engineering: A Framework for Assessing Critical Community Functions after Disasters” |
| Dinner - Ticket Required (235 Gates-Thomas) |
Saturday, February 4, 2017
| 9:00-9:45 am | Breakfast/Coffee (Hameetman) |
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| 9:45-11:30 am | Session 4: System Identification and Control (Chair: Ivan Au, TBD) |
| (9:45-10:20 am) | Costas Papadimitriou “Bayesian Framework for Fault Identification in Systems using Physics–Based Models” |
| (10:20-10:55 am) | Keith Worden “Nonlinear System Identification: From Least- Squares to ABC-SMC” |
| (10:55-11:30 am) | Jeff Scruggs “Optimal Control of Vibratory Systems with Power Directionality Constraints” |
| 11:30 am-1:30 pm | Lunch (Avery) |
| 1:30-3:15 pm | Session 5: Reliability Analysis/Design (Chair: Costas |
| (1:30-2:05 pm) | Kostia Zuev “Subset Simulation and Reliability of Critical Infrastructure Networks: Recent Progress, New Applications, and Challenges” |
| (2:05-2:40 pm) | Hector Jensen “Reliability Sensitivity Analysis in the Context of Reliability Based Design Optimization of Complex Systems” |
| (2:40-3:15 pm) | Alexandros Tafanidis “On design under uncertainty: problem formulation and recent advances in simulation-based optimization” |
| 3:15-3:30 pm | Closing Ceremony (TBD) |