NHERI Graduate Student Council
2025 Mini-Conference
We are excited to announce that our keynote speaker will be Dr. Jamie Padgett from Rice University, Stanley C. Moore Professor in Engineering Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Updates
Our 2025 keynote speaker is Dr. Jamie Padgett who will share her presentation, "Opportunities and Lessons Learned when Modeling Resilience Across Scales and Hazards."
Jamie E. Padgett is the Stanley C. Moore Professor and Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Padgett is a structural engineer whose research is focused on multi-hazard risk and resilience modeling of structural portfolios and infrastructure systems, while understanding their impacts on communities. Padgett serves in leadership roles within several large national research efforts including the NIST Center of Excellence for Risk-based Resilience Planning and the NSF Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Cyberinfrastructure (DesignSafe CI).
Attendees are encouraged to submit questions to Dr. Padgett within their Mini-Conference registration which is open until May 15, 2025: https://bit.ly/2025NHERIGSC_Mini-Conference.
Program Information
The NHERI Graduate Student Council is excited to host the third annual NHERI GSC Mini-Conference. This fully virtual one-day conference brings together graduate students in the field of natural hazards to present original, multidisciplinary research. Accepted poster and paper presentations include novel approaches to methods, empirical research, and interdisciplinary work from graduate student researchers including geotechnical engineers, structural engineers, sociologists, demographers, computer scientists, and other disciplines. NSF NHERI GSC Data Challenge participants will also present their findings after working within a group over the spring semester.
The NHERI GSC Mini-Conference will run from 10:00 am-4:30 pm CT on Friday, May 16, 2025.
2025 NSF NHERI GSC Mini-Conference Program
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| 10:00am – 11:05am |
Welcome Remarks & Keynote Address |
| 11:05am – 11:15am |
Short Break |
| 11:15am – 12:10pm |
Data Challenge: Morning Poster Session |
| 12:10pm – 12:20pm |
Short Break |
| 12:20pm – 1:05pm |
Paper Session 1 – Broad Risk-Based Approaches for Natural Hazard Mitigation |
| 1:05pm – 1:15pm |
Short Break |
| 1:15pm – 2:00pm |
Paper Session 2 – Earthquakes in Focus: Seismic Resilience in a Changing World |
| 2:00pm – 2:30pm |
Long Break |
| 2:30pm – 3:25pm |
Data Challenge: Afternoon Poster Session |
| 3:25pm – 3:35pm |
Short Break |
| 3:35pm – 4:20pm |
Paper Session 3 – Disaster Risk in Context: Social Science Perspectives and Structural Approaches to Hazard Mitigation |
| 4:20pm – 4:30pm |
Closing Remarks |
Eligibility
Anyone is welcome to attend the NHERI GSC Mini-Conference, including NHERI GSC members, non-member graduate students, faculty, administrators, industry professionals, or others interested in hearing about innovative, multidisciplinary research in the natural hazards field.
All registrants will receive a calendar invite with a link to attend the virtual Mini-Conference following successful registration. We expect all attendees to be respectful of all participants and presenters.
Contact Us
For questions, please contact the NHERI GSC Organizing Committee.
- Pooria Mazaheri, Chair of Research (mazaheri@iastate.edu)
- Parisa Toofani Movaghar, Chair of Data Challenge (ptoofani@nd.edu)
- Harman Singh, President (harmansingh1412@gmail.com)
- Richard Campos, Vice President (richard.campos@ou.edu)
- Rajendra Gautam, Chair of Workshops and Mentoring (rgautam.nepal@gmail.com)