Dr Priti Parikh (Senior Consultant, Arup) will be giving a seminar on Thursday 10 December 2009 at 1pm in the
Chadwick Building, room 218 (2nd floor).
The Chadwick Building is located to the right of the main UCL gates on Gower Street. See a map of the location here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res
Topic Title: ASPIRE - Sustainability and Poverty Reduction Tool
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We can confirm that the proceedings of our “Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in the 21st Century Symposium” held on the 26th October 2009, will be published in the form of a book by Springer (http://www.springer.com) as part of its Natural Hazards Series.
The book will be called “Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in [...]

Alan Muhr from the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre (TARRC) will be giving an EPICentre seminar on
Thursday 26th November 2009 at 5.30pm.
Venue: Pearson Lecture Theatre, Pearson Building.
The Pearson Building can be found to the left of the main UCL gates on Gower Street. A map can be found here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res
Topic title: “History of Seismic Isolation”
Abstract:
The [...]

Kubilay Hicyilmaz (Arup) will be giving a seminar on Thursday 19 November 2009 at 5.30pm
Venue: Basement Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place – this building is just off Tottenham Court Road as shown in bottom right of the map here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res. The building is access restricted, but you should be allowed through by mentioning that you are [...]

The first symposium held by the EPICentre and the Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR), New Zealand took place on Monday with great success. A high number of participants from NGOs, charities and engineering sectors as well as other academics working in risk perception attended. Throughout the day the focus remained on bridging the gaps [...]