Stanford
Blume Earthquake Engineering Center

Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture

The Shah Family

The Shah Family Fund was established in 1995 to provide annual fellowships for students in civil engineering; an annual prize for an outstanding staff member in the School of Engineering; and an annual distinguished lecture on catastrophic risk management and related subjects.The fund is named for Haresh Shah, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Shah, an expert on probability and reliability theory, is a founding member of Risk Management Solutions Inc. in Newark, Calif.

Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

New Approaches to Resilience: Policy and Practice

Mary Comerio, University of California, Berkeley

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Stanford University
Huang Engineering Building
Mackenzie Room 300
475 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94086
United States

Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Exploring the Future of Earthquake Shaking and Impact Estimation*

David Wald, USGS

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Stanford University
Huack Auditorium, Joan and David Traitel Building
435 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

Seminar

Challenges and Opportunities in Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction During Community Self-Recovery

Tracy Kijewski-Correa, University of Notre Dame

Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture
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Zoom Webinar
Seminar

Lessons from the Pandemic on How to Prepare for Climate Change

Alice C. Hill

David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations
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Zoom Webinar
Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Reducing Losses from Catastrophic Risks: The Role of a Behavioral Risk Audit

Howard Kunreuther

University of Pennsylvania
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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Harvey and the Future

Jim Blackburn

Rice University
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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

New Approaches for Tsunami Impact Assessment

Professor Tiziana Rossetto

EPICentre, CEGE Department, University College London
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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Urban Resilience for the 21st Century - The Perspective of 100 Resilient Cities

Michael Berkowitz

100 Resilient Cities
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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Managing Disaster Risk and Resilience at the Community Scale

Laurie A. Johnson, PhD AICP Principal

Laurie Johnson Consulting
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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Setting the Stage for Early Earthquake Alerts and Warnings

Ann Bostrom Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor of Environmental Policy

University of Washington
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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Earthquake Effects On Critical Infrastructure

Tom O'Rourke

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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Challenges For Attaining Earthquake Safety In Developing Countries

Sergio M. Alcocer

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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Buildings, Energy Efficiency, and Energy Management: The New Paradigm

Dian Grueneich

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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Building and Using Complex Models to Make Financial Decisions

Karen Clark

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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Catastrophic Risk - Past and Future

Charles Scawthorn

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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

A Katrina Legacy: Addressing Levee Safety and Public Policy in the U.S.

Jeffrey R. Mount Gerald Galloway Carel J.J. Eijgenraam

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Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture Series

Towards Optimum Risk and Reliability Levels for Performance-Based Seismic Design

Luis Esteva

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