2021 NIST Disaster Resilience Symposium

Agenda Dates: July 20 - July 21, 2021

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10:00 9:00 8:00 7:00 Joannie Chin (NIST)

10:15 9:15 8:15 7:15 Zoe Lofgren

(U.S. House of Reps.)

10:30 9:30 8:30 7:30

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Monica Sanders

(U. of Delaware)

11:30 10:30 9:30 8:30

Tanya BrownGiammanco

Scott Weaver

Nelson Bryner

Steve McCabe

12:30 11:30 10:30 9:30

Track 1: WUI Speaker Track 2: Wind Speaker

Link to Join Session: TBD Moderator(s):

Eric Link Link to Join Session: TBD Moderator(s): Marc Levitan

1:00 12:00 11:00 10:00 Imaging pyrometry of smoldering wood 

embers

Peter Sunderland 

(U. of Maryland)

4-D Measurement and Modeling of 

Engineering-Relevant Windstorm 

Characteristics

John Schroeder 

(Texas Tech. U.)

1:30 12:30 11:30 10:30

Improving Disaster Resilience by 

Quantifying WUI Community Ember 

Exposure

Dac Nguyen, 

Nigel Kaye 

(Clemson U.)

Spatiotemporal Maps of Damaging 

Winds from Integrated Remote and In 

Situ Observations

Michael Biggerstaff 

(U. of Oklahoma)

2:00 1:00 12:00 11:00

Assessing long-range firebrand 

impingement rates in recent WUI 

wildfire events

Janice Coen 

(U. Corp. for Atm. Res.)

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) System 

and LIDAR Experiments for the 

Characterization of Strong Wind Loads 

on Non-Structural Components and 

Near-Surface Wind Profiles

Chelakara 

Subramanian, 

Jean-Paul Pinelli, 

Hadley Besing 

(Florida Inst. of Tech.)

2:30 1:30 12:30 11:30

Chief, Fire Research Division, NIST

Director, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program, NIST

Address by United States Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, 19th District of California

30 min break

Day 1: July 20, 2021

Making The Case for Resilience: Why Law and Policy Must Be Informed By Science

Opening Remarks from the Director of the Engineering Laboratory

10 min break

Concurrent 

Sessions

30 min break

11:40 10:40 9:40 8:40 NIST Statutory Programs Roundtable

*Moderated by Maria Dillard, Associate Lead Investigator, Hurricane Maria Program, NIST

Director, Disaster & Failure Studies, NIST

Director, National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program, NIST

Day 1 Session 1
Track 1: WUI/EQ Speaker Track 2: Wind/DFS Speaker

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Link, Siamak Sattar Link to Join Session: TBD Moderator(s):Maria Dillard

3:00 2:00 1:00 12:00

Development of a Fundamental Model 

for Ignition of Structural WildlandUrban Interface (WUI) Fuels Subjected 

to Firebrand Attack

Michael Gollner, 

Stanislav Stoliarov

Jacques De Beer

(U. of California, 

Berkeley,

 U. of Maryland)

Innovative Measurement and Modeling 

of Dynamical Social and Health Effects 

of Windstorms

Daan Liang 

Zhen Cong

Guofeng Cao

(U. of Alabama, U. Texas 

Arlington, U. of 

Colorado)

3:30 2:30 1:30 12:30 Firebrand Material Ignition Conditions 

& Assessment Method Development

Brian Lattimer, 

Jonathan Hodges 

(Virginia Tech. 

Jensen Hughes) 

Measurement of Near-Surface Pressure, 

Wind and Wind-Induced Load 

Characteristics Using Novel Sensors in 

Thunderstorm, Tornado, and TornadoLike Environments

Franklin T. Lombardo 

(U. of Illinois)

4:00 3:00 2:00 1:00

Seismic Assessment, Retrofit Strategies 

and Policy Implications for Vulnerable 

Existing Steel Buildings

Francisco Galvis

Gregory Deierlein

(Stanford U.)

Coastal Inundation Events in 

Developed Regions

Andrew Kennedy 

(U. of Notre Dame)

4:30 3:30 2:30 1:30

Resilience of Steel Moment Frame 

Systems with Deep, Slender Column 

Sections

Jason McCormick 

(U. of Michigan)

Leveraging Uncertain Disaster Field 

Data for Community-Scale Assessment 

of Connected Buildings and Lifelines

Iris Tien 

(Georgia Tech. Res. 

Corp.)

5:00 4:00 3:00 2:00

Concurrent

Sessions

End Day 1

Day 1 Session 2
2021 NIST Disaster Resilience Symposium

Agenda Dates: July 20 - July 21, 2021

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11:00 10:00 9:00 8:00

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David Bonowitz

12:00 11:00 10:00 9:00

Speaker

Moderator(s):

Sissy Nikolaou

12:30 11:30 10:30 9:30

Steven Kramer, 

Andrew Makdisi 

(U. of Washington)

1:00 12:00 11:00 10:00

Wassim Ghannoum, 

Adolfo Matamoros, 

Sergio Brena 

(U. of Texas, San 

Antonio, 

UMass Amherst)

1:30 12:30 11:30 10:30

Petros Sideris, 

Mija Hubler 

(Texas A&M, 

U. of Colorado)

2:00 1:00 12:00 11:00

Day 2: July 21, 2021

Functional Recovery: What it Means to Design for Community Resilience

Decision-Oriented Column Simulation Capabilities for Enhancing Disaster Resilience of Reinforced 

Concrete Buildings

1 hr break

Liquefaction-Targeted Ground Motion Parameters

Track 3: Earthquake

Aging Effects in the Seismic Performance of RC Structures

Day 2 Session 1

Link to Join Session: TBD

30 min break
Speaker

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Sissy Nikolaou

3:00 2:00 1:00 12:00

Andreas Stavridis

Michel Bruneau

(Res. Found. for SUNY)

3:30 2:30 1:30 12:30

Juan Murcia-Delso, 

Ioannis Koutromanos 

(U. of Texas at Austin, 

Virginia Tech.)

4:00 3:00 2:00 1:00

Abbie B. Liel, 

Maria Koliou 

(U. of Colorado, 

Texas A&M)

4:30 3:30 2:30 1:30

Jacqueline (Jack) 

Meszaros (National 

Science Foundation)

5:00 4:00 3:00 2:00

NSF/DR Grants Program Presentation

End Day 2

Designing for and Assessing Functional Recovery in Seismic Retrofit of Existing Concrete Buildings: A 

Framework

Seismic Assessment and Retrofit Methods for Existing Non-Ductile Reinforced Concrete Wall Structures

Track 3: Earthquake

Link to Join Session: TBD

Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Unreinforced Masonry Buildings

Day 2 Session 2