The first public workshop for PEER’s NGA-West2 program will take place at UC Berkeley on November 15th.  This workshop will highlight and share the findings that have developed from the project team over the last 2 years, including the preliminary ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs), updated ground motion database, and results from other research tasks.  Researchers, practitioners, and any other interested parties are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012

Location: Auditorium in Room 310, Sutardja Dai Hall (CITRIS Building), University of California, Berkeley. Directions.

Registration: Registration is now closed. This one-day workshop is free, but advanced registration is required.

Webcast: Watch remotely via Webcast live at 8:30 am on November 15, 2012: mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/peer. The webcast will become available at 8:15 am. It should load automatically, but if you have problems, make sure your computer has the latest version of Windows Media Player, RealPlayer or QuickTime installed. *Mac Users: It is important that you have Flip4Mac installed on your computer. To get the latest version, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9442#top

Agenda:
See below or download the agenda (PDF file, 95KB)

Time	Topic	Speaker
8:30 – 9:00 am	Overview of NGA-West2 Project – (PDF, 1.1 MB)	Yousef Bozorgnia
9:00 – 9:30 am	NGA-West2 Database – (PDF, 531 KB)	Tim Ancheta
9:30 – 10:15 am	Site Database and Revisions to NEHRP Site Factors – (PDF, 5.4 MB)	Jon Stewart
10:15 – 10:30 am	Break
10:30 – 11:00 am	Damping Scaling Models – (PDF, 3.8 MB)	Sanaz Rezaeian
11:00 – 11:45 am	Directivity Models	Paul Spudich
11:45 – 12:15 pm	Directionality of Ground Motion – (PDF, 5.4 MB)	Jack Baker
12:15 – 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 – 1:15 pm	Nonlinear Site Response Model – (PDF, 491 KB)	Ronnie Kamai
1:15 – 1:30 pm	New Hanging Wall Model – (PDF, 403 KB)	Jennifer Donahue
1:30 – 1:45 pm	Classification of “Main Shock” vs “Aftershock” – (PDF, 800 KB)	Katie Wooddell
1:45 – 2:15 pm	Abrahamson-Silva Updated GMPE	Norm Abrahamson
2:15 – 2:45 pm	Boore-Atkinson-Seyhan-Stewart GMPE	Dave Boore Jon Stewart
2:45 – 3:15 pm	Campbell-Bozorgnia Updated GMPE – (PDF, 650 KB)	Ken Campbell
3:15 – 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 – 4:00 pm	Chiou-Youngs Updated GMPE – (PDF, 5.6 MB)	Brian Chiou
4:00 – 4:30 pm	Idriss Updated GMPE – (PDF, 2.2 MB)	I.M. Idriss
4:30 – 5:00 pm	Comparison of GMPEs – (PDF, 25.2 MB)	Norm Abrahamson, Nick Gregor
5:00 – 5:30 pm	Final Discussions and Concluding Remarks	Yousef Bozorgina, All
5:30 pm	Adjourn