Program Schedule

WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 19, 2005 All sessions will be held at the Marina del Rey Hotel - Regatta Room 9:00-10:30 AM WELCOMING RECEPTION with continental breakfast 10:30-10:50 AM OPENING REMARKS James Beck for Caltech and Symposium Organizing Committee Andrew Whittaker for CUREE 10:50-11:50 AM TECHNICAL SESSION - 1 Moderator: Richard K. Miller (Olin College) Earthquake Ground Motions: Early Developments Kalman Lee Benuska, S.E. (formerly of Kinemetrics, Inc.) CUREE: The Early Days Stephen Mahin (UC Berkeley) Wilfred Iwan: Influence on Public Policy L. Thomas Tobin (Tobin & Associates) The Earthquake Engineering Community and EERI Craig Comartin (CDComartin, Inc.) 12:00-1:45 PM LUNCH Capturing of Time-Frequency Localization in Accelerograms and Seismic Structural Responses via Wavelets Pol D. Spanos (Rice University) 2:00-3:15 PM TECHNICAL SESSION – 2 Moderator: Robert Reitherman (CUREE) A Case Study in Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Helmut Krawinkler (Stanford University) Assessment of the Aerodynamic Performance of Cable-Supported Bridges Using Full-Scale Measurements Nicholas P. Jones (John Hopkins University) Seminal Contributions to Structural Control and Health Monitoring Sami F. Masri (University of Southern California) Structural Health Monitoring: Then and Now Anne S. Kiremidjian (Stanford University) Summary of Implementation of Building Seismic Retrofit in California William T. Holmes (Rutherford & Chekene) 3:15-3:45 PM BREAK 3:45-5:00 PM TECHNICAL SESSION - 3 Moderator: Thomas Heaton (Caltech) The CUREE-Kajima Joint Research Program Haresh Shah (Stanford University) Contributing to Global Earthquake Risk Management Brian E. Tucker (Geohazards International) World Seismic Safety Initiative Tsuneo Katayama (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Research - NIED) Closing Remarks John Hall (Caltech) 5:30-6:30 PM RECEPTION 6:30-8:30 PM BANQUET Master of Ceremonies: Nicholas Jones, followed by participants being able to make their own comments