"DesignSafe: Providing Data and Computational Resources to Advance Research in Natural Hazards Engineering", part of "The future of Infrastructure today!" webinar series

Lecture date: Friday June 21, 9:00-10:00AM PST

"The future of Infrastructure today!” is a monthly webinar series under the Auspices of the UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (https://smartinfrastructure.berkeley.edu/). 

The fourth webinar in the series is titled "DesignSafe: Providing Data and Computational Resources to Advance Research in Natural Hazards Engineering" and is presented by Prof. Ellen M. Rathje (PhD, PE, Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin). A brief description of the webinar follows:

Today, many of the most transformative research discoveries occur at the nexus of data and computation. Yet, significant challenges exist in accessing relevant data, integrating it with computational tools, and gaining access to the required computing resources. The DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure (www.designsafe-ci.org) has been developed to solve these problems and support research in natural hazards engineering. Since 2015, DesignSafe has been a part of the NSF-funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) and it is available to all researchers in natural hazards.

DesignSafe allows researchers to more effectively share, publish, and find data; perform numerical simulations using high performance computing; utilize artificial intelligence, machine learning, and visualization, and integrate diverse datasets. This presentation will describe the DesignSafe components that are available to researchers, including the Data Depot data repository and the Tools and Applications that enable a wide-range of research activities, and will provide specific examples of how DesignSafe is being used today to enhance research in natural hazards engineering.