Civil Engineering Seminar Series

Gregory G. Deierlein seminar

As part of the graduate seminar series, the CSEE Department welcomes a speaker from academia or industry every week to present their work. The goal of the seminar series is to give our graduate students an opportunity to learn more about current cutting edge research and challenging applications from civil and structural engineering. A few seminars every semester are delivered from our doctoral students to give them the chance to share their research findings and practice their presentation skills.

Speakers and Dates

2018-2019

September 7, 2018 Dr. Paul Gauvreau
11 a.m. Professor of Civil Engineering
140 Ketter Hall University of Toronto
The Robots are Coming! The Next Revolution in Construction and its Impact on Bridge Design
September 21, 2018 Dr. Kimberly E. Kurtis, PhD, FACI, FACerS
11 a.m. Professor of Civil Engineering
140 Ketter Hall Georgia Institute of Technology
21st Century Concrete Technology: Addressing Sustainability through Innovation
September 28, 2018 Dr. Kishor C. Mehta, PhD
4 p.m. SEAS Distinguished Speaker
101 Davis Hall P.W. Horn Professor of Civil Engineering
  Texas Tech University
Evolution of Assessment of Wind Speeds in Tornadoes
October 5, 2018 Alexandros Nikellis
11 a.m. PhD Candidate
140 Ketter Hall Major Advisor: Kallol Sett
  University at Buffalo
Multi-hazard design and cost-benefit analysis of buildings with special moment resisting steel frames
October 11, 2018 Dingqing Li, PhD
11 a.m. Executive Director of Government Programs and
140 Ketter Hall Engineering Services
  TTCI
Rail Research and Testing at TTC/TTCI
October 26, 2018 Barzin Mobasher, PhD, PE
11 a.m. Professor of Strutural Materials Engineering
140 Ketter Hall School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
  Arizona State University
Innovations in Fiber and Textile Reinforced Concrete in Support of Sustainable Infrastructure Systems
November 2, 2018 Katerina Genikomsou
11 a.m. Assistant Professor
140 Ketter Hall Civil Engineering Department
  Queen's University
Finite Element Analysis of Punching Shear of RC Slabs
November 9, 2018 Aaron Mazeika
11 a.m. Associate Director
140 Ketter Hall Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
Environmentally Conscious Structural Design of High Rise Buildings
November 16, 2018 Catherine French, PhD, PE, FACI, FPCI, Dist.MASCE
11 a.m. Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering
140 Ketter Hall University of Minnesota
Performance on Nonrectangualr RC Walls subjected to Multidirectional Loading and Development of Resilient Wall Systems Utilizing Unbonded Post-tensioning
November 30, 2018 Jerome Lynch, PhD
11 a.m. Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering
140 Ketter Hall University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Long-Term Management and Control of Critical Infrastructure Systems using Cyber-Physical Systems Architectures
December 11, 2018 Chris S. Williams, PhD
11 a.m. Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
140 Ketter Hall Purdue University
Structural Performance of Post-Tensioned Spliced Girder Bridges

2017-2018

August 14, 2017 Dr. Oren Lavan
11 a.m. Associate Professor
223 Jarvis Hall Technion
  Israel Institute of Technology Israel
From Performance-Based Engineering to Earthquake Resilience
September 8, 2017 Andreas Stavridis and Xuan Gao
11 a.m. Assistant Professor and Student
140 Ketter Hall Univeristy at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Experimental and Analytical Studies on Nonlinear Seismic Performance of Infilled RC Frame with Sliding Joints
September 15, 2017 Anthony F. Tessari, PhD, PE
11 a.m. Assistant Professor and Student
140 Ketter Hall Univeristy at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Full-Scale Hybrid Simulation of Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction in a Geotechnical Laminar Box
September 22, 2017 Cemal Basaran PhD
11 a.m. Professor
140 Ketter Hall Univeristy at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
A New Mechanics Theory: Mechano-Thermodynamics
September 29, 2017 Ravi Ranade, PhD
11 a.m. Assistant Professor
140 Ketter Hall Univeristy at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Advanced Concrete Materials
October 6, 2017 Andre Filiatrault, PhD, PE
11 a.m. Professor of Structural Engineering
140 Ketter Hall Univeristy at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Performance-based Seismic Design of Nonstructural Building Components: The Next Frontier of Earthquake Engineering
October 13, 2017 Negar Elhami Jhorasani, PhD
11 a.m. Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering
140 Ketter Hall Univeristy at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Structural Fire Engineering and the Roadmap to Resiliency
October 20, 2017 Professor Kenneth H. Stokoe, II
11 a.m. Jennie C. and Milton T. Graves Chair
140 Ketter Hall Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
  University of Texas at Austin
Recent Developments in Characterizing Liquefiable Sandy Soils in the Field and Laboratory
October 27, 2017 M.V. Sivaselvan
11 a.m. Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Civil Engineering
140 Ketter Hall University at Buffalo Department of Civil, Structural and ENvironmental Engineering
An Application of Computational Mechanics to a Biological Cell
November 3, 2017 Jongmin Shim and ABM Tahidul Haque
11 a.m. University at Buffalo Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
140 Ketter Hall  
Research on Mechanical Metamaterials and Structural Instability
November 10, 2017 Jianming Hao, Haifeng Wang, Reda Snaiki and Assistant Professor Teng Wu
11 a.m. Univeristy at Buffalo Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
140 Ketter Hall  
Advanced Wind Engineering: Changing Climate, Aerodynamics and Dynamics
November 13, 2017 Troy Morgan, PE
11 a.m. Exponent
140 Ketter Hall  
Technical Consulting: The Intersection of Mythbusters, CSI and Civil Engineering
November 17, 2017 Kallol Sett
11 a.m. Assistant Professor
140 Ketter Hall University at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Uncertainty Quantification in Earthquake Engineering through Stochastic Inverse and Forward Simulations
December 1, 2017 Michel Bruneau
11 a.m. Professor
140 Ketter Hall University at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Buckling-Restrained Braces and Other Structural Fuse Strategies for Resilient Bridges
February 7, 2018 Radomir Slavchov, PhD
4 p.m. Research Fellow
140 Ketter Hall BP-International Centre of Advanced Materials
Capillary forces in patch clamping: creep under the action of pressure, adhesion and voltage
February 16, 2018 Mohammed Alnaggar, PhD
11 a.m. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
140 Ketter Hall  
Reinforced concrete aging, deterioration and the environment: Can we predict that?
February 23, 2018 Andrew Cushing, P.Eng.
11 a.m. Senior Engineer - Tunneling and Geotechnics
140 Ketter Hall ARUP, Toronto, Canada
Case Histories in Geotechnical Design & Construction: Embankments on Soft Ground and Tunneling in Weak Rock
March 16, 2018 Mark Bajorek, PE & Joseph Fonzi, PE
11 a.m. Supervising Structural Engineers
140 Ketter Hall WSP, Buffalo, NY
The Maid of the Mist Docking Facility
March 30, 2018 Shoma Kitayama, PhD
11 a.m. Postdoctoral Associate
140 Ketter Hall Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
  University at Buffalo
Seismic Performance Assessment of Seismically Isolated Buildings Designed by the Procedures of ASCE/SEI 7
April 4, 2018 Gilbert Brindley
10 a.m. UHPC Solutions
  Oakland, California
Ultra High Performance Concrete for Bridge Rehabilitation: Chillon Viaduct Case Study
April 6, 2018 Faiz I, Makdisi, PhD, PE, DGE
11 a.m. Senior Principal Engineer
140 Ketter Hall SAGE Engineers, Inc. 
  Oakland, California
Seismic Stability and Deformation of Embankment Dams
April 13, 2018 Eric Manuel, PE
11 a.m. M3 Engineering and Technology
140 Ketter Hall Tucson, Arizona
Seismic Isolation of GIant Magellan Telescope
April 20, 2018 Laura N. Lowes, PhD
3 p.m. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
101 Davis Hall University of Washington
Earthquake Behavior, Design and Modeling of Slender Reinforced Concrete Walls

2016-2017

May 5, 2017 Gregory G. Deierlein
2:00 p.m. John A Blume Professor of Engineering
  Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Stanford University
From Performance-Based Engineering to Earthquake Resilience
April 28, 2017 Sissy Nikolaou, PE, F. ASCE
11:00 a.m. Principlal, Multi-Hazard & Geotechnical & Tunneling
  WSP Technical Fellow of Earthquake Engineering
EERI Friedman Family Visiting Professional Lecture Rapid Reconnaissance Technologies for Multi Hazards
April 21, 2017 Dr. Chris Letchford
11:00 a.m. Professor and Head of Department of Civil and
  Environmental Engineering
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The Evolution of Wind Engineering
April 14, 2017 Dr. George Lee
11:00 a.m. Research Professor and
  SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Early Year Milestones of the Development of Earthquake Engineering in CSEE
April 7, 2017 Siddharth S. Parida
11:00 a.m. Doctoral Student
  Advised by Professors Kallol Sett and Puneet Singla
Probabilistic Geotechnical Site Characterization through Stochastic Inverse Analysis of Geophysical Test Measurements
March 31, 2017 Yonggang Huang
12:45 p.m. Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil & Environmental
  Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and
  Materials Science and Engineering
  Northwestern University
Mechanicaaly Guided, Deterministic Three Dimensional Assembly
March 15, 2017 Professor Xinzhong Chen
11:00 a.m. National Wind Institute
  Department of Civil, Environmental and
  Construction Engineering
  Texas Tech University
Wind Load Effects on Tall Buildings: Coupling, Aeroelastic and Inelastic Effects
March 10, 2017 Andrei M Reinhorn, PhD, PE
11:00 a.m. Emeritus - Clifford C. Furnas Eminent Professor
  University at Buffalo
Passive Control of Structures using Apparent Weakening and Damping for Seismic Protection
March 3, 2017 Dr. Andreas Stavridis, Sina Yousefian, Supratik Bose
11:00 a.m. University at Buffalo
Experimental and Analytical Studies on the Nonlinear Seismic Performance of Actual Buildings
February 24, 2017 Pinar Okumus, Maurizio Diaz Arancibia and
11:00 a.m. Cancan Yang
  University at Buffalo
Service and Seismic Performance of Rapidly Constructed Prestressed Bridge Systems
February 17, 2017 Mark S. Adams and Edward G. Szpala
11:00 a.m.
 Current and Past President of NY State Society of
  Professional Engineers - Erie Niagara Chapter
Professional Licensure for Engineers: From Point A to P.E.