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Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference

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Join us at the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2021 (EMI 2021)—the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) premiere annual mechanics conference—and the 13th ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Reliability (PMC 2021)—offered by ASCE every four years as a special venue for related work in probabilistic methods. This joint conference will be hosted by Columbia University in New York City and organized by Professors Shiho Kawashima, Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Steve Waiching Sun, Haim Waisman, George Deodatis and Dr. Elisabeth Malsch. The conference will provide a forum where the fundamental advances in engineering mechanics will be on display.

At the conference, listen to distinguished plenary lecturers, support some of the brightest students participating in student competitions, and share in the recognition of some major contributors to the field of engineering mechanics as they receive EMI's prestigious medals and other awards.

Conference Co-Chairs, EMI 2021 and PMC 2021

  • Shiho Kawashima, Ph.D., Columbia University
  • Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou, Ph.D., C.Eng, M.ASCE, Columbia University
  • Steve Waiching Sun, Ph.D., M.ASCE, Columbia University
  • Haim Waisman, Ph.D., Columbia University
  • Elisabeth Malsch, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, Thornton Tomasetti  
  • George Deodatis, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE, Columbia University

Local Organizing Committee 

  • Raimondo Betti, Columbia University, USA
  • Adrian Brügger, Columbia University, USA
  • Patricia Culligan, Columbia University, USA
  • Gautam Dasgupta, Columbia University, USA
  • George Deodatis, Columbia University, USA
  • Sharon Di, Columbia University, USA
  • Maria Feng, Columbia University, USA
  • Jacob Fish, Columbia University, USA
  • Michel Ghosn, City College of New York, USA
  • Marco Giometto, Columbia University, USA
  • Muhammad Hajj, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
  • Jeffrey Kysar, Columbia University, USA
  • Hoe Ling, Columbia University, USA 
  • Feniosky Peña-Mora, Columbia University, USA
  • Anthony Rosato, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA  
  • Andrew Smyth, Columbia University, USA
  • Hansong Tang, City College of New York, USA
  • Huiming Yin, Columbia University, USA

International Scientific Committee – EMI 2021

  • Matthew Adams, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
  • Ange-Therese Akono, Northwestern University, USA
  • Mohammed Alnaggar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Lallit Anand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
  • Jose Andrade, California Institute of Technology, USA
  • Chloé Arson, Georgia Tech, USA
  • Matthew Bandelt, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
  • Mathieu Bauchy, University of California Los Angeles, USA
  • Roberto Ballarini, University of Houston, USA
  • Zdeněk Bažant, Northwestern University, USA
  • Yuri Bazilevs, Brown University, USA
  • Ronaldo Borja, Stanford University, USA
  • Antonio Bobet, Purdue University, USA
  • John Brigham, Durham University, UK
  • Markus Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 
  • Giuseppe Buscarnera, Northwestern University, USA
  • Noel Challamel, Université de Bretagne ‐ Sud, France
  • J. S. Chen, University of California San Diego, USA
  • Gianluca Cusatis, Northwestern University, USA
  • Emanuela Del Gado, Georgetown University, USA
  • C. Armando Duarte, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, USA
  • John Foster, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Simos Gerasimidis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
  • Somnath Ghosh, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Catherine Gorle, Stanford University, USA
  • Alex Greaney, University of California Riverside, USA
  • James Hambleton, Northwestern University, USA
  • Michael Hillman, Penn State, USA
  • Christian Hellmich, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
  • Mija Hubler, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
  • Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 
  • Loukas Kallivokas, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Sinan Keten, Northwestern University, USA
  • Jae Hong Kim, KAIST, South Korea
  • Kimberly Kurtis, Georgia Tech, USA
  • Michael Lepech, Stanford University, USA
  • Christian Linder, Stanford University, USA
  • Fushen Liu, Exxonmobil, USA
  • Wing Kam Liu, Northwestern University, USA
  • Yongming Liu, Arizona State University, USA
  • Ning Lu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
  • Jerome P. Lynch, University of Michigan, USA
  • Majid Manzari, George Washington University, USA
  • Arif Masud, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, USA
  • Karel Matouš, University of Notre Dame, USA
  • Paramita Mondal, University of Delaware, USA
  • Çağlar Oskay, Vanderbilt University, USA
  • Harold Park, Boston University, USA
  • Glaucio Paulino, Georgia Tech, USA
  • Arun Prakash, Purdue University, USA
  • Nima Rahbar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Richard Regueiro, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
  • Anthony Rosato, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
  • John Rudnicki, Northwestern University, USA
  • Guglielmo Scovazzi, Duke University, USA
  • Surendra P. Shah, Northwestern University, USA
  • Kenichi Soga, University of California Berkeley, USA
  • Wil Srubar, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
  • Lizhi Sun, University of California Irvine, USA
  • Ertuğrul Taciroğlu, University of California Los Angeles, USA
  • Mahmoud Taha, University of New Mexico, USA
  • Vikas Tomar, Purdue University, USA
  • Matthieu Vandamme, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, France
  • Gioacchino Viggiani, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
  • George Voyiadjis, Louisiana State University, USA
  • Roman Wan-Wendner, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Mary Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Ardavan Yazdanbakhsh, City College of New York, USA
  • Zhanping You, Michigan Technological University, USA
  • Pablo Zavattieri, Purdue University, USA
  • Mourad Zeghal, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

International Scientific Committee – PMC 2021

  • Sondipon Adhikari, Swansea University, UK
  • Siu-Kui (Ivan) Au, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore 
  • Sanjay Arwade, University of MA Amherst, USA
  • Bilal Ayyub, University of Maryland, USA
  • Michele Barbato, UC Davis, USA
  • Andre Beck, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Michael Beer, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
  • Paolo Bocchini, Lehigh University, USA
  • Christian Bucher, TU Vienna, Austria
  • Eleni Chatzi, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland 
  • Jianbing Chen, Tongji University, China
  • Joel Conte, UC San Diego, USA
  • Ross Corotis, University Of Colorado, USA
  • Vincent Denoël, University of Liège, Belgium
  • Mario Di Paola, University of Palermo, Italy
  • Bruce Ellingwood, Colorado State University, USA
  • Dan Frangopol, Lehigh University, USA
  • Paolo Gardoni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Roger Ghanem, University of Southern California, USA
  • Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Mircea Grigoriu, Cornell University, USA
  • Hector Jensen, Federico Santa Maria University, Chile
  • Erik Johnson, University of Southern California, USA
  • Ahsan Kareem, University of Notre Dame, USA
  • Anne Kiremidjian, Stanford University, USA
  • Kok-Kwang Phoon, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
  • Jia-Liang Le, University of Minnesota, USA
  • Ning Lin, Princeton University, USA
  • Jie Li, Tongji University, China
  • Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University, USA
  • Marc Mignolet, Arizona State University, USA
  • Arvid Naess, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • Costas Papadimitrou, University of Thessaly, Greece
  • Kostas Papakonstantinou, Penn State University, USA
  • Antonina Pirrotta, Universita di Palermo, Italy
  • Sharif Rahman, University of Iowa, USA
  • Michael Shields, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Christian Soize, Université Paris-Est, France
  • Junho Song, Seoul National University, South Korea
  • Pol Spanos, Rice University, USA
  • Seymour Spence, University of Michigan, USA
  • Daniel Straub, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • Bruno Sudret, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
  • Alexandros Taflanidis, University of Notre Dame, USA
  • Mazdak Tootkaboni, UMass Dartmouth, USA
  • Steven Wojtkiewicz, Clarkson University, USA

About the Engineering Mechanics Institute

The Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) was created on October 1, 2007 to serve the engineering community through the development and application of engineering mechanics by anticipating and adapting to new challenges that will face tomorrow's engineers, and to provide a home not only for those involved in the traditional disciplines but also for those involved with emerging areas of mechanics.

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