Presentations

Yousef Bozorgnia, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE

Selected Recent Presentations and Session Chair

  • “NGA-Subduction Research Program,” Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of Seismological Society of America (SSA), April 2021.
  • “Fault Displacement Hazard: New Data and Modeling Advances,” Session Chair & Organizer, Annual Meeting of Seismological Society of America (SSA), April 2021.
  • “Latest Developments in Earthquake Ground Motion Hazard,” Invited Speaker, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China, September 2019.
  • “NGA-Subduction: An Overview,” Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of Seismological Society of America (SSA), Seattle, Washington, April 2019.
  • “NGA Research Projects: From the Beginning to Present,” Invited Speaker, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 7, 2019. 
  • “Earthquake Ground Motion Modeling,” Session Chair & Organizer, 11th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, June 2018.
  • “Earthquake Ground Motion Modeling for Engineering Applications,” Session Chair, 11th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, June 2018.
  • “Special Session Honoring Professor Stephen A. Mahin,” Session Co-Organizer, 11th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, June 2018.
  • “NGA-Subduction Research Program,” Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of Seismological Society of America (SSA), Florida, May 2018.
  • “Next Generation Earthquake Instruments in California,” Invited Panel Member, California Earthquake Authority (CEA) Forum, February 2018, Sacramento, California.
  • “Development of Fragility Functions for Existing and Retrofitted Wood-Frame Buildings in California,” Invited Speech, California Earthquake Authority (CEA) Forum, February 2017, Sacramento, California.
  • “Earthquake Ground Motion Issues,” Session Chair, 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chile, January 2017.
  • “Special Session Honoring Professor Vitelmo V. Bertero,” Session Co-Organizer, 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chile, January 2017.
  • “Latest developments in earthquake ground motion characterization,” Invited Speech, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, May 14, 2016.
  • “NGA-East”, Session Chair and Organizer, Annual Meeting of Seismological Society of America, Reno, Nevada, April 22, 2016.
  • “Next Generation Earthquake Ground Motion Models,” Invited Speech, Regional Conference of the Association of State Dam Safety Officials, Sacramento, CA, March 10, 2016. 
  • “Lifelines and earthquake research,” Invited Lecture, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, November 2015.
  • “Seismic Retrofit of Schools,” Workshop Organizer and Chair, International Workshop on Seismic Retrofit of Schools, Yerevan, Armenia, Sponsored by the US National Academy of Sciences and US State Department, August 2015.
  • “NGA-West2 Vertical Ground Motion,” Invited Speech, 26th General Assembly of IUGG, European Union on Earth and Environmental Sciences for Future Generations, Prague, July 2015. 
  • “Vertical Ground Motion and Vertical Design Spectra,” Invited Speech, Annual Meeting of Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS), San Francisco, November 14, 2014. 
  • “NGA-Subduction Research Program,” Invited Speech, Annual Meeting of Seismological Society of America, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2, 2014.
  • “Summary of Research Findings of NGA-West2 Research Project,” Invited Speech, Annual Meeting of Seismological Society of America, Anchorage, Alaska, May 1, 2014.
  • “Ground Motion Research Projects at PEER”, Invited Speech, 2014 Conference of the US Society of Dams, San Francisco, CA, April 10, 2014.
  • “NGA-West2 Research Project”, Session organizer and keynote speaker, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, National Seminar Series at Salt Lake City (November 7, 2013), Long Beach (November 8, 2013), Seattle (November 14, 2013), San Francisco (November 15, 2013).
  • “NGA-East”, Invited Speech & Session Chair, Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT) Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 2013.
  • “An overview of NGA-West2 research project,” Invited Speech, Annual Meeting of Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council, Los Angeles, CA, May 3, 2013.
  • “NGA-West2: A comprehensive multidisciplinary research program to develop ground motion prediction equations for shallow crustal earthquakes in active tectonic regions,” Invited Speech, Annual Meeting of Seismological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 17, 2013.
  • “PEER Next Generation Ground Motion Models,” Invited Speech, Special Workshop on Joint Japan-China-Korea Ground Motion Hazard, organized by Japan National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), Sendai, Japan.
  • “NGA-West2 Research Program”, by Yousef Bozorgnia, Invited Speech, Hanford nuclear site ground motion SSHAC workshop, Walnut Creek, CA, December 6, 2012.
  • “PEER NGA-West2 Research,” by Yousef Bozorgnia, Invited Speech, USGS Special Workshop on the US National Seismic Hazard Maps, University of California, Berkeley, December 12, 2012.
  • “NGA-West2 Multidisciplinary Research Program,” by Yousef Bozorgnia, Session Chair and Keynote Speaker, University of California, Berkeley, November 15, 2012.
  • “Ground Motion Prediction and Hazard”, Session Chair, Special Session, 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, September 25, 2012.
  • “GEM-PEER Global Ground Motion Prediction Equations,” Invited Speaker, Special Session on Global Earthquake Model, 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, September 25, 2012.
  • “GEM-PEER Global Selection of Ground Motion Models”, Organizer and Chairman, Workshop on Global Earthquake Model, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012.