Charles Scawthorn on June 15, 2018, presented a 90-minute webinar for ICLR on the topic of Conflagrations. The talk had two parts, conflagrations in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and conflagrations following earthquakes. The entire 90-minute talk can be viewed here.
Month: May 2019
Keith Porter and Charles Scawthorn played an active role at 11NCEE held in Los Angeles 25-29 June 2018. Scawthorn co-chaired a session with Dr. Craig Davis of LADWP on the topic of Achieving Water Supply Network Seismic Reliability and Resilience, where he presented a paper on the topic of the PIPE algorithm (Pipe Importance and Priority Evaluation), available here, and Porter presented a paper on “Will the San Francisco East Bay Water Supply Go Haywire?, available here. Both Scawthorn and Porter also presented papers in the Innovations Of The HayWired Scenario session, where Porter’s paper was “Basic Research from the Haywired Scenario to Better Inform Resilience Plans” available here, and Scawthorn’s paper was “Fire Following the Mw 7.0 Haywired Earthquake”, available here.
Keith Porter conducted a guest seminar Nov. 9 on the subject of earthquake risk mitigation at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) at the invitation of Prof. Stephanie Chang.
Charles Scawthorn gave a luncheon address on the state of catastrophic fire in the US to the Passe Club of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Nov. 16 at the Hilton on Union Square, San Francisco. The text of his address can be accessed here.