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EERI Newsletter, November 2009 Volume 43, Number 11

News of the Institute

Online Registration for 2010 Annual Meeting
Registration and detailed program information will be available online by November 15 at www.eeri.org for the 2010 EERI Annual Meeting, which will be held February 3-6, 2010, in downtown San Francisco, California, at the Parc 55 Hotel. With the theme “Back from the Future,”the planning committee has created an exceptional program that kicks off in a future year — 2056 — with a repeat of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The reconnaissance efforts of 2056 reveal that, remarkably, casualties and damage are less than expected. Sessions will explore the breakthroughs in engineering, public policy, research, and education that are needed to achieve such a minimal levelof damage. The program brochure will be mailed to all EERI members later this month. The hotel’s group room rate for EERI is $209 plus tax. Hotel reservations can be made from a link on the page noted above. In order for EERI to fill its room block, reservations must be made by January 13, 2010, but don’t delay – the hotel might fill up before that date! Attention undergraduates: We encourageacademic and student members to let undergraduates know that the 7th Annual Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition will be held during the Annual Meeting (see enclosed poster). A cable car climbs Hyde Street in San Francisco, with Alcatraz in the background (SFCVB photo by Lewis Sommer).

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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Mark Yashinsky Sarah Nathe Gerald Brady Eloise Gilland

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EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE PRESIDENT Farzad Naeim PASTPRESIDENT Thalia Anagnos VICE PRESIDENT Jack P. Moehle SECRETARY-TREASURER Marshall Lew BOARD OF DIRECTORS Thalia Anagnos William A. Anderson Reginald DesRoches S. K. Ghosh Marshall Lew Jack P. Moehle Farzad Naeim Masayoshi Nakashima Andrew S. Whittaker EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Susan K. Tubbesing

Sharon Wood Named 2010 EERI Distinguished Lecturer
Sharon L. Wood, the Robert L. Parker, Sr., CentennialProfessor in Engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and the chair of the department, is EERI’s 2010 Distinguished Lecturer. She will present her lecture for the first time during EERI’s 62nd Annual Meeting in February 2010 in San Francisco. Wood’s current research interests include developing sensor networks tomonitor the condition of Sharon L. Wood civil infrastructure systems, investigating the fatigue response of fracture-critical bridges, and improving the seismic response of reinforced concrete buildings. An EERI member since 1986, Wood is past director of the Phil M. Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory, one of the nation’s leading research centers in the large-scale study of the behavior ofbridges, buildings, and structural components. Wood has served on the Editorial Board for Earthquake Spectra and chaired the EERI Technical Seminars Committee. She has participated in post-event investigations of the 1985 Chile, 1994 Northridge, and 1999 Turkey earthquakes. She found that buildings in Chile performed well during the earthcontinued on page 2
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News of the Institute

EERI Endowment Donors
EERI would like to thank the donors to the Endowment Fund shown below and acknowledge their recent contributions. EERI’s Endowment supports those innovative projects that ensure the Institute’s continuing leadership in the earthquake engineering professions. $2,000 Charles A. Kircher $1,000 Anonymous Carl H. Josephson $500-$999...