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Oct. 22 Agenda: Session 1

Morning: Multi-Hazard Resilience

• 9:00 am: Welcome: Jim Milke, Chair of Fire Protection Engineering
• 9:10 am: Keynote #1: Reducing the Impact of Fire in Buildings and Communities, Anthony Hamins, Chief of Fire Research, NIST
• 9:40 am: Keynote #2: Community Disaster Resilience, Stephen Cauffman, Lead for Disaster Resilience, NIST
• 10:10 am: Break
• 10:20 am: Brief UMD Faculty Research Presentations:
• Andre Marshall and Arnaud Trouve: "The Future of Fire Resilience"
• Bilal Ayyub and Yunfeng Zhang: "Monitoring the Health of Structures for Quantifying and Achieving Resilience for Natural Hazards"
• Elise Miller-Hooks: "Multi-Hazard Resilience Quantification for Civil Infrastructure Systems”
• 11:20 am: Faculty Experts Panel and Q&A Session w/ Jim Milke as Moderator
• 12:00 pm: Lunch & Poster Session (End of Morning Session)