News and Events

News

Master of Advanced Studies in Natural Hazards Management (MAS NATHAZ)

Risk and Safety in Engineering
Research and Teaching in the Group on Risk and Safety at ETH Zurich

• IBK-Seminar
  16. November 2010, 17:00 Uhr, HIL E 3, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg
  Prof. Christos T. Georgakis, Technical University of Denmark Copenhagen:
  "Aerodynamic vibration control of bridge cables through shape modification and the role of DTU's new Climatic Wind Tunnel"

• Prof. PhD. Steve Winterstein, Stanford University:
  - IBK-Kolloquium: "Why is there no key of H?", May 18, 2010, Semper Aula, HG G 60, 17:00, ETH Zentrum, Zürich
  - Lectures on "Probability-Based Engineering Analysis and Design", May 18, 2010, 11:00 – 14:00; May 19-21, 2010, 14:00-17:00, Room HPT C 103, ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich

• IBK-Seminar: "Application of Hierarchical Bayes Analysis
  Prof. Marc A. Maes, 03.03.10, HIL E1, 17:00, ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich

• The distribution of the maximum for a stationary Gaussian process, Karl Breitung
  Tuesday, 15. December 2009, 17:00, HIL E 6, ETH Zürich

• Master of Advanced Studies in Natural Hazards Management (MAS NATHAZ)

• New JCSS publication available:
  Risk Assessment in Engineering
  Principles, System Representation & Risk Criteria

• In Summer term 2007 from the lecture Statistics and Probability Theory a Video had been produced
  Video stream

• CodeCal: an Excel based program for the Reliability Based Code Calibration of structural design codes
  Now available

Events

2011

• ICASP 11
  11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering
  August 1-4, 2011, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2010

• IFED International Forum on Engineering Decision Making
  5th Forum, December 7-11, 2010, Stoos, Switzerland

2009

• IFED International Forum on Engineering Decision Making
  Fourth Forum, May 13-16, 2009, Hakone, Japan:
  Long-term Policy Makings for Sustainable Society

2008

• Robustness of Structures, Workshop organised by COST Action TU0601, February 4-5, 2008, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2007

• IFED Third International Forum on Engineering Decision Making: "Optimal Strategies for Disaster and Hazard Mitigation", December 12-15, 2007, Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia

• Presentation "Zur Beurteilung der Sicherheit bestehender Tragwerke"Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dimitris Diamantidis, October, 30, 2007, 17:00 , HIL E 3, ETH Zürich

• Presentation "Uncertainty in seismic fragility models and its effect on infrastructure system reliability", Dr. Daniel Straub, University of California, Berkeley, USA, April 13, 2007, 15:00 Uhr, HIL F 10.3, ETH Zürich

• Presentation "Zuverlässigkeit von Holzkonstruktionen", Dr. Jochen Köhler, Institut für Baustatik und Konstruktion, 27. März 2007, 17:00 Uhr, Auditorium HIL E 1, Hönggerberg, ETH Zürich

• Workshop on Risk Acceptance and Risk Communication, March 26-27, 2007, Stanford, USA

2006

• November 24, 2006, - a Milestone in Structural Reliability - Symposium to mark Professor Rackwitz emeritation, TU Munich, Germany

• Community based risk management Workshop Zurich,
  October 3 – 5, 2006

• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Management of Earthquake Risks, August 28-29, 2006, Zurich, Switzerland

• IFED Second International Forum on Engineering Decision Making, April 26-29, 2006, Lake Louise, Canada

• Sicherheitstagung, 10.01.2006, Zürich, Schweiz
  Das Gefährdungspotenzial bei Bauten, Anlagen und Industrieerzeugnissen für den Menschen in der Schweiz: Erkennung und Vermeidung.

2005

• Workshop organized by the JCSS & IABSE WC 1: Robustness of Structures , November 28-29, 2005, BRE, Garston, Watford,UK

• Presentation Dr. Jack W. BAKER, Stanford University (Stanford CA)
  "An overview of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis"
  "Improved earthquake ground motion measures for structural response prediction"

• Seminar on Excursions of Random Fields

• Alpine Valley & HazNETH PhD-Workshop on Natural Hazards, September 21, 2005, Saas Grund, Valais

• ICOSSAR 2005, International Conference On Structural Safety And Reliability, June 19-23, 2005, Rome, Italy

• IFIP WG 7.5 Working Conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, May 22-25, 2005, Aalborg, Denmark

• International Workshop on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil InfrastructureSystems, May 8-11, 2005, Florida

2004 and before

• IFED International Forum on Engineering Decision Making ETH, Zurich, December 5-7, 2004

• Natural Hazards in an Alpine Valley, PhD-Workshop, September 16, 2003, ETH Hönggerberg, HIL F10.3

• Joint Event
  The 3rd International Workshop Life-Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems and fib WG 5.3-1, WG 5.6/the Joint Commitee on Structural Safety Probabilistic Modelling of Deterioration Processes on Concrete

• Second SAFERELNET General Meeting, October 16-17-18, 2002, Zurich

• Workshop on Reliability Based Code Calibration
  March 21-22, 2002, Zurich
  The Press Release published after the Workshop is available in English (PDF, 34 KB) and German (PDF, 37 KB).
  Further Information about the Workshop (papers, slides, etc) are available on the following Page