Workshop: Enhancing Community Resilience under Natural Hazards
清华大学土木工程系李全旺教授和美国科罗拉多州立大学(Colorado State University) Ellingwood教授和 van de Lindt教授共同组织，于2015年5月18日到19日在清华土木工程系（何善蘅楼）201会议室举行Workshop: Enhancing Community Resilience under Natural Hazards。会议的主题和日程如下（本次活动免费参加）：
The impact of natural disasters, including earthquakes and tsunamis, tornadoes, tropical cyclones and storm surge, on urban areas is likely to increase in the future due to population migration patterns, urban development and climate change. The aftermath of such disasters worldwide has shown that effective policies for natural hazards mitigation must address resilience of urban communities rather than simply the performance of individual facilities. Urban resilience depends on large-scale, interdependent physical infrastructure systems and networks, including building inventories, transportation and lifeline systems, and socioeconomic networks that, individually and collectively, can sustain or absorb damage and support the quick recovery of urban areas and their communities following a disaster. Modeling such systems and their interdependencies at urban or regional scales and quantifying infrastructure performance are a significant challenge in terms of both research and public policy-making, especially in the light of significant uncertainties in natural hazard intensities and their impact on the built environment. It is essential that many disciplines including engineering, economics and sociology, and computer science, work in concert to developdecision frameworks that will enhance the resilience of urban areas exposed to natural disasters. Enhancement of community and urban resilience is a high-priority goal in most advanced societies worldwide.
This workshop is intended to provide an international forum for researchers from Tsinghua University and the NIST-funded Resilience Center for sharing the latest advances in (1) analyticalmethods for quantifying the impact of natural disasters on the builtenvironment; (2) identifying performance metrics (in social and economic terms) that match those impacts to the social and economic infrastructure and support systems that are necessary to maintain the health of a community or urban area and enable it to recover from a disaster; and (3) informing decision making processes aimed at optimally enhancing resilience at different urban scales.
May 18, 2016
8:00 – 8:45 a.m.
Registration & Group photo.
8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Welcome talk.
9:00 – 9:40 a.m.
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary initiatives towards resilient urbanization. by Prof. Dongping Fang, from Tsinghua University.
9:40 – 10:20 a.m.
Measuring and improving the functionality of built environment considering the inter-dependency of community components. by Prof. Quanwang Li, from Tsinghua University.
10:20 – 10:40 a.m.
Coffee/Tea break.
10:40 – 11:20 a.m.
Modeling of a community to non-synoptic windsfor resilience studies. by Prof. John van de Lindt, from Colorado State University.
11:20 – 12:00 a.m.
Earthquake disaster simulation of super-tall buildings and large cities. by Prof. Xinzheng Lu, from Tsinghua University.
12:00 – 14:00 p.m.
Lunch break.
14:00 – 14:40 p.m.
Stage-wise resilience planning for roadway networks. by Prof. Naiyu Wang, from University of Oklahoma.
14:40 – 15:20 p.m.
Assessing the resilience of interdependent urban lifeline systems. by Prof. Nan Li, from Tsinghua University.
15:20 – 15:40 p.m.
Coffee/Tea break.
15:40 – 16:20 p.m.
Effectiveness of network-based warning dissemination. by Prof. Chen Wang, from Tsinghua University.
16:20 – 17:00 p.m.
A new wildland urban interface fire model using cellular automata and graph theory. by Prof. Mahmoud Hussam, from Colorado State University.
May 19, 2016
9:00 – 9:40 a.m.
Thinking for building resilient city. by Prof. Hong Huang, from Tsinghua University.
9:40 – 10:20 a.m.
Managing risk to community infrastructure in an era of climate change. by Prof. Bruce Ellingwood, from Colorado State University.
10:20 – 10:40 a.m.
Coffee/Tea break.
10:40 – 11:50 a.m.
Roundtable discussion.
11:50 – 12:00 a.m.
Closing ceremony.