20 June 2023, Tamaki Makarau- Auckland


Registration Details:

QuakeCoRE annual and research meeting Tickets, Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite.  


Program:

The meeting will run from 10am through 5pm in person.

Date and time

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 · 10am - 5pm NZDT

Location

building 902 room 402/ 314-390 Khyber Pass Road, Newmarket, Auckland 1023

About this event

9:50am to 10:00 am

Welcome and Opening


10:00am to 10:30am

Morning tea


10:30am to 12:00pm

  • Welcome and overview of IP4 – Dr Garry McDonald and Assoc. Prof. Nirmal Nair
  • Update of IP4’s annually activities, progress and updates
  • Round-in updates
  • Updates by Assoc. Prof. Nirmal Nair
  • Updates by Dr Garry McDonald


12:00pm to 13:30pm (lunch)


13:30pm to 16:00pm

QuakeCoRE IP4 Workshop in Machine Learning Applications to Seismic Science. Chaired by Assoc. Prof. Kevin Wang.

  • Aim is to gather everyone’s opinions about how to move forward to connect with and contribute to the QuakeCoRE community.
  • A few representatives will present on their research.


16:00 to 17:00pm

  • Plans for the second half year 2023.
  • External funding discussions (MBIE Endeavours and Smart Ideas, Marsden, etc)
  • Ideating new IP4 projections for the 2023 RfP round
  • Strategy for attracting applications for 2023 IP4 Masters and PhD applicants
  • Industry engagement for IP4 projects (2023-24)
  • Inviting new researchers to IP4 from and upgrading to AI

Program style to follow IP4 international Machine Learning for Seismic Sciences workshop held alongside IEEE EGRID 2022


20 June 2023

10.30pm to 4.00pm

QuakeCoRE IP4 annual research meeting and Technology Megatrends Workshop on Machine Learning workshop (recorded video are available from IP4 Monthly Meeting - Zoom)

Agenda/Kaupapa Take

9:50am~10.00am Welcome and opening

10:00am~10.30am Morning tea

10:30am~12.00pm QuakeCoRE IP4 annual meeting

  • Quick introductions for attendees (name, organization, and interest areas)- all attendees
  • Overview of IP4's past half year activities, progress and updates -Dr Garry McDonald and Assoc. Prof. Nirmal Nair (10mins) 

Gary M:

               a. Overview of IP4: Four areas: electricity centre, emerging transportation systems, smart cities, evaluation of emergent technologies

               b. For those new to IP4, go through the website and look at all material in IP4 IP4: Harnessing Disruptive Technologies for Earthquake Resilience - QuakeCoRE: The Centre for Earthquake Resilience - Confluence (canterbury.ac.nz)

               c. A focus for our IP4 team is to build research programs not within the QuakeCoRE environment but take some senior leads and help them take on challenges in other research platforms including Marsden’s, smart ideas and endeavour.   

               d. July 7th, report successes on research including Phd students’ finish.

               e. 29/8 to 1/9 QuakeCoRE Annual General Meeting registration (AGM)-Napier memorial hall, PhDs prepare a poster with supervisors’ name on it to get successful registration-no funding for travelling and accommodation, now sources would look into. Funding is available for AI.

               f. Science Advisory Board (SAB) will go to AGM this year.

               g. July 21th, please attend the Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE’s Seminar Series. A matter of life and death: enhancing our understanding of life-safety risk in earthquakes. - Nick Horspool. All seminars are recorded and will be available on the QuakeCoRE YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/quakecorenz soon after. 

 Nirmal N:

            Brief introduction of IP4

    1.  Started from 2019, an interdisciplinary research program from the Centre of Research Excellence (QuakeCoRE) on the earthquake resilience.
    2.  Gary: comes from industry, research organizations; Nirmal: comes from a typical background, engage closely with industry stakeholders and interested in disciplinary research.

           2022 Annual report went through:

    1. All positions will be investigated end of the next year.
    2. One big achievement for IP4 is integrated E-grid Conference with Technology Megatrend on Machine learning
    3. IP4 Annual research meeting 2023
    4. IP4 Annual meeting 2024 will be the same time next year.
    5. Reach out to people from International Science Advisory Panel
    6. Recorded publications (smart city technology), posters and people with different positions
  • Funded activity update by UoA: Assoc. Prof. Nirmal Nair, Assoc. Prof. Kevin Wang, and Dr. Ho Seok (20mins)
    1. More papers are coming.
    2. Rizki is at her last year now. Eric will do his PYR soon. Yuan and Nirmal are applying for Smart idea funding application.
    3. Questioning on whether these papers related to seismic?
    4. A person needed on well-being and consequence modelling.
    5. No PhD applications from our end this year
  • Funded activity updated by Massey University: Prof. Kristin Stock and Prof. Raj Prasanna. (20mins)

Raj S:

                 a. P-wave based alerting projects, completed in one year.

                 b. One journal paper published and One paper under review in New Zealand journal of Geology and Geophysics on false alerts and miss alerts based on P-wave detection algorithms.

                 c. One paper near completion on ground motion sensor technology.

                 d. The outcomes are adopted sensors and IoT technologies in seismic scenarios, which is aligned with IP4 

                 e. Crisis lab website refreshed. Home | CRISiSLab

Marion T:

                 a. promoted as an AI last year.

                 b. Working on the project of "Technology adoption of systems for earthquake risk and resilience management". A paper finished. Developing a smart idea proposal.

                 c. Benefits for funding and visibility for young scholars with PhD degree could apply for the funding (Around $10000) from QuakeCoRE

                 d. Have a chat with Paul.

Kristin S:

                a. Lydia (final year undergrad student) will be back on the project from next month and should be joining the annual meeting in Napier with Prof Kristin (both registered anyway).

                b. Sameeah is still waiting for visa approval. She has been given an extension until 1st September to take up the scholarship.

                c. Someone will be recruited to work on the project in the second semester.

                d. An offer from QuakeCoRE for seminar series (August), Nirmal will reach out to discussion the seminar. 

  • Self-introduction of Dr. Yang Zou and his VR presentation
  • A quick go-through of IP4 position paper by Yuan- on vision, scope, methodology and outcomes of the program, in future, facilities will be added as well. 

12.00pm~1.30pm Lunch

1.30pm~1.40pm Machine Learning workshop opening, Chaired by Assoc. Prof. Kevin Wang, recorded video is available from IP4 Monthly Meeting - Zoom

1.40pm~2.05pm Chris Vorster, Artificial Intelligence for structure engineering

2.05pm~2.30pm Phil Mourot, AI for climate impacts: application in flood risk

2.30pm~2.55pm Ho Seok Ahn, Social Human Robot interaction resilience

                          Slides will come soon. 

3.00pm~3.20pm Break

3.20pm~4.00pm Panel discussion: Paving a more resilient future with Machine Learning technologies, recorded videos are available from IP4 Monthly Meeting - Zoom

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