Conference Date/Time: Thursday 4 November 2010, 9am
Venue: Old Refectory, UCL, London
(see map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res)
The 2010 SECED Young Engineers Conference aims to bring together young engineers from both industry and universities to meet and interchange ideas related to the study and practice of earthquake engineering and civil engineering dynamics. The conference focuses on:
- Structural dynamics (experimental, numerical, [...]

Helen Bottomley & Giorgia Cerruti (former graduates of the MSc in Geophysical Hazards, UCL) will be giving an EPICentre seminar on Tuesday 4 May at 5.30pm.
Venue: Malet Place Engineering Building (MPEB), room 1.20.
Directions: The MPEB is based Malet Place. See map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res
Title: Indi Wanders: a transformative approach to hazard awareness and preparedness
Abstract:
Despite public preparedness efforts in [...]

An EPICentre seminar will be given by Iunio Iervolino (University of Naples) at UCL on
Tuesday 27th April, 5.30pm.
Venue: Chadwick Building, room 218 (2nd floor)
see map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res
Title: Near-Source Pulse-Like Seismic Demand
Abstract:
Directivity in earthquakes is such that a site located close to the source of a seismic event may be in a geometrical configuration with respect [...]

We have just added the following vacancies within partnering organisations, UNHABITAT and CordAid, to our Jobs page:

Human Settlements Officer/Earthquake Engineer Wanted (based in Iran)
CordAid: Team Member Needed to Facilitate Data Analysis (Short Term Position in Haiti)

For more information visit our jobs page: http://www.epicentreonline.com/?page_id=9

The Tsunami Generator at H. R. Wallingford is the first to recreate a trough-led wave, tsunami waves that drain water from beaches on approach and which were responsible for the devastation seen in the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004. Tiziana Rossetto (Director of the EPICentre) spoke to New Scientist and “Wired” about the pioneering work that looks [...]