Resilient Cities through Computation Virtual Workshop, October 9, 2020
Presenter: Dr. Wael El-Dakhakhni, Professor of Civil Engineering and Computational Science & Engineering, McMaster University
Seminar: Critical Infrastructure Resilience in the Face of Climatological Systemic Risks
Moderator: Dr. Sherif El-Tawil, Antoine E. Naaman Collegiate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
The 2019 Global Risk Report by the World Economic Forum identified Failure of climate-change mitigation & adaptation; Extreme weather events; and Natural disasters as the top three global risks in terms of their combined likelihood and impact. The series of devastating climatological disasters across the globe in the past few decades clearly demonstrates that our societies are far from being climate resilient. Our societies’ critical infrastructure networks feature a multi-layer, densely interconnected architecture of several dynamic (i.e., evolving with time) networks. These networks include, most notably, the power grid, water & wastewater, transportation, as well as telecommunications, fuel, food supply chain, health care, and financial networks. The interdependence of such networks may be responsible for system-wide failures spreading progressively, through interdependence, from one network to another in a domino-like scenario (known as systemic risks), thereby threatening multiple strata of social life and economy. This talk will highlight some ongoing projects at the INTERFACE Institute employing data analytics to overcome the interdependence-induced complexity influencing infrastructure resilience to climatological risks.
Created by Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery for @UM_MICDE within the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan, and the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering @UM_CEE within the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.
