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Curriculum Vitae June 15, 2013 ERIK VANMARCKE OFFICE: Room E-326, E-Quad Phone: (609) 258-5896 Princeton University Fax: (609) 258-1563 Princeton, NJ 08540 <[email protected]> HOME: 148 Springdale Road Phone: (609) 751-0221 Princeton, NJ 08540 Cell: (609) 598-0952 PRESENT POSITION: Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Princeton University http://www.princeton.edu/cee/people/display_person/?netid=evm EDUCATION: B.Sc. University of Leuven, Belgium, 1965 M.Sc. University of Delaware, 1967 Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970 POSITIONS & APPOINTMENTS: Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, 1999- Professor of Civil Engineering & Operations Research, Princeton University, 1985-99 Professor of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., 1978-85 Director, Civil Engineering Systems Methodology Group, M.I.T., 1976-81 Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor, M.I.T., 1974-77 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., 1969-73 Part-Time Instructor in Civil Engineering, M.I.T., 1968-69 Analyst, Computer Research on Non-Partisan Districting (CROND), 1966 VISITING APPOINTMENTS: Kwang-hua Visiting Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2010-12 Visiting Professor, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, 2003-04 Shimizu Corporation Visiting Professor, Stanford University, 1990-91 Visiting Scholar in Engineering, Harvard University, 1984-85 Visiting Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium, 1977 & 1984 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Geophysical Union, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, International Committee on Large Dams, Society of Social Management Systems, Society of Sigma Xi.

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ERIK VANMARCKE

OFFICE: Room E-326, E-Quad Phone: (609) 258-5896 Princeton University Fax: (609) 258-1563 Princeton, NJ 08540 <[email protected]> HOME: 148 Springdale Road Phone: (609) 751-0221 Princeton, NJ 08540 Cell: (609) 598-0952 PRESENT POSITION: Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Princeton University http://www.princeton.edu/cee/people/display_person/?netid=evm

EDUCATION: B.Sc. University of Leuven, Belgium, 1965 M.Sc. University of Delaware, 1967 Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970 POSITIONS & APPOINTMENTS: Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, 1999- Professor of Civil Engineering & Operations Research, Princeton University, 1985-99 Professor of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., 1978-85 Director, Civil Engineering Systems Methodology Group, M.I.T., 1976-81 Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor, M.I.T., 1974-77 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., 1969-73 Part-Time Instructor in Civil Engineering, M.I.T., 1968-69 Analyst, Computer Research on Non-Partisan Districting (CROND), 1966 VISITING APPOINTMENTS: Kwang-hua Visiting Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2010-12 Visiting Professor, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, 2003-04 Shimizu Corporation Visiting Professor, Stanford University, 1990-91 Visiting Scholar in Engineering, Harvard University, 1984-85 Visiting Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium, 1977 & 1984 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Geophysical Union, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, International Committee on Large Dams, Society of Social Management Systems, Society of Sigma Xi.

HONORS & AWARDS: Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Class of 2013 Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal, Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, 2012 Kwang-hua Chair Visiting Professorship, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2010-12 Chair Professorship (Visiting), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 2008 Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award, Society of Automotive Engineers, 2002 Distinguished Alumnus for 1994, University of Delaware School of Engineering Elected Member (Foreign), Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium, 1999 Visiting Senior Scientist Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1991 Shimizu Corporation Visiting Professorship, Stanford University, 1990-91 Walter L. Huber Research Prize, ASCE, 1984 Certificate of Appreciation, NRC Water Science and Technology Board, 1983 Higgins Lectureship Award paper (co-author), American Institute of Steel Construction, 1979 Raymond C. Reese Research Award, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 1975 Gilbert W. Winslow (Career Development) Professorship, at M.I.T., 1974-77

________________________________________________ Listed in Who's Who in America; Who's Who in the World 23 Keynote Lectures, since 1977 -- Listed Separately Below PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Adviser to Government of The Netherlands, Concerning the Length Effect on the Failure Risk

of Long Dikes/Levees, in particular due to the Piping Failure Mechanism, 2011-12 Vice-chair, Academic Review Committee (Structural Engineering Program at the University of

Gent, Belgium), Flemish Inter-university Council, 2008-09 Adviser, on “Determining Risk over Linear and Spatial Geotechnical Structures”, to National

Research Council (NRC) Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering, 2009 Co-chair, Symposium on “Hurricanes and Insurance”, at ASCE National Conference, Orlando,

Florida, 2007 Adviser/reviewer, Kuwait University’s New Graduate Program in Environmental Studies, 2007 Chair, Executive Committee, Council on Disaster Risk Management (CDRM), ASCE, 2003-05 Chair, International Roundtable on “Surviving Nature’s Forces”, Los Angeles, CA, 2005 Member, Scientific Advisory Committee of the Society of Social Management Systems,

Kochi, Japan, since 2005 Member, Task Committee on Critical Infrastructure, ASCE, 2003-04 Chair, Risk and Vulnerability Committee, Disaster Reduction Council, ASCE, 1998-2003 Chair, Committee TC-32 on Risk Assessment and Management, International Society of Soil

Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 1998-2001 Member, NSF Review Panel, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, 2003 Member, National Research Council (NRC) Committee on the Vulnerability of Critical

Infrastructures, 1999-2001 Chair, Committee on Risk Assessment and Management, Geo-Institute of ASCE, 1997-2001 Chair, Multi-hazard Risk Committee, ASCE Lifeline Earthquake Eng’g Council, 1994-99 Member, Academic Review Committee, NSF Offshore Technology Research Center at Texas

A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin, 1997 Member, G-11 Probabilistic Methods Committee, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1997-05 Chair, Reliability Committee, Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, 1976-80 & 1993-97

Founding Editor (1982-1991) and Editorial Board Member (1991- ), Structural Safety, Elsevier Publishers.

Chair, Committee on Seismic Risk and Criteria for Lifelines, ASCE, 1978-84 Chair, NSF Review Panel, Northridge Earthquake research proposals, 1994 Head, NSF Delegations to Turkey, on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, 1985 & 1989 Member,  Advisory  Committee,  Program  in  Operations  Research,  U.  of  Delaware,  1990-­‐99   Member, Ad-hoc Committee on Statistical Interpretation of Failures of Dams, International

Committee on Large Dams, 1988-95 Member, NSF Earthquake Engineering Delegation to the (Former) Soviet Union, 1986 Member, Independent Review Panel on Safety of Dams, Office of Science and Technology

Policy (OSTP), 1978-80 Member, National Research Council (NRC) Committee on the Safety of Dams, 1977-78 Chair, Risk Analysis Subcommittee, NRC Committee on Non-Federal Dams Safety, 1981-83 Member, Scientific Committee, Intern. Conferences on Structural Safety and Reliability

(ICOSSAR) in Kobe, Japan (1985), San Francisco, CA (1989), Osaka, Japan (2009), New York City (2013)

Member, Scientific Committee, Intern. Union on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) Symposium on Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics, Innsbruck, Austria, 1987

Member, Editorial Boards: Earthquake Eng’g and Soil Dynamics (1981-92); Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics (1985-94); International Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (1997- ); Journal of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering (1998); Uncertainties in Engineering Mechanics (1999- ); Georisk (2006- ); International Journal of Engineering under Uncertainty: Hazards, Assessment, and Mitigation (2008- ).

AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Member, Faculty Affiliated with the Bendheim Center for Finance, 2001- Member, Academic Committee of the Program in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, 1999-2011 Member, Faculty Affiliated with Princeton Environmental Institute, 1996- Member, Faculty Affiliated with Princeton Materials Institute and PRISM, 1991- Member, Executive Committee, Complex Systems Workshop, SEAS, 2003 Member, Strategic Planning Committee, School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1992-94 Member, Executive Committee, Princeton Materials Institute, 1991-93 Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, 1991-94 INVITED LECTURES (listed chronologically, based on 1st lecture): At University of California at Berkeley; Northwestern University; Stanford University; Harvard University; University of Karlsruhe; Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Technical University of Munich; Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; Columbia University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University of New South Wales, Australia; National University of Mexico (UNAM); Technical University of Berlin; Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; Technical University of Innsbruck, Austria; University of Florence; Polytechnic Institute of New York; University of Tokyo; University of Kyoto; Royal Meteorological Institute, Belgium; Bundesanstalt für Materialprüfung, Berlin; Royal Dutch Shell, The Hague, Holland; Indian Department of Water Resources, New Delhi; Taiwan Institute of Technology; Polish Academy of Sciences; Academie des Wissenschaften der DDR; University of Southampton; University of Massachusetts at Amherst; SUNY Buffalo; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Coimbra, Portugal; ASCE Local Sections:

Boston and New York; M.I.T. Club of Princeton; Princeton Chapter of Sigma Xi; Princeton Jewish Community Center; Johns Hopkins University; Academia Sinica and State Seismological Bureau, China: at Beijing, Harbin, Yinchuan and Xian; Japan Society of Soil and Foundation Engineering, Nagoya; Osaka Architectural Institute; Taisei Corporation, Tokyo; Kajima Corporation, Tokyo; National Institute of Standards and Technology; University of Delaware; McGill University; Cornell University; Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Texas A&M University; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (in both the Civil Engineering and Physics/Astronomy Departments); Kuwait Government Departments of Public Safety and Environmental Protection; Kuwait University; Princeton Environmental Institute; Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium; Sorbonne, Paris, France; University of Southern California; Risk Analysis International, Vienna, Austria; Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies); U.S. National Science Foundation; Technical University of Delft; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University; U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Princeton Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics; Kochi University, Japan; Institution of Civil Engineers (UK); Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS); Princeton Program in Integrative Information, Computer and Application Sciences; Mathey College, Princeton University; National Taiwan University of Science and Technology; Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Chongqing University, China; Cambridge University; Woodrow Wilson School (Princeton University); Tongji University (Shanghai); Tsinghua University (Beijing), China.

Keynote Lectures: (1) Sixth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, New Delhi, India (1977); (2) Third International Conference on Probability in Soil and Structural Engineering, Sydney,

Australia (1979); (3) International Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Southampton,

England (1982); (4) Fourth Canadian National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada

(1983); (5) ASCE Conference on Stochastic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, at University of

California, Berkeley (1984); (6) International Conference on Dam Safety, Coimbra, Portugal (1984); (7) Fourth International Symposium on Stochastic Hydraulics, at the University of Illinois,

Urbana-Champaign (1984); (8) Fifth International Conference on Probability in Soil and Structural Engineering,

Vancouver, Canada (1987); (9) International Conference on Experimental Measurements and Computational Methods,

Capri, Italy (1989); (10) ASCE Foundation Engineering Congress, Chicago (1989); (11) Congreso Emilio Rosenblueth, Mexico City (1994); (12) Seventh International Conference on Applications of Probability and Statistics, Paris,

France (1995); (13) ASCE Conference on Uncertainty in Geologic Environments, Madison, Wisconsin

(1996); (14) Third International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Tehran,

Iran (1999);

(15) International Workshop on Environmental Disaster and Crisis Management, Kuwait City, Kuwait (2001);

(16) Joint Meeting of the Royal Academies of Sciences and the Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium (2001);

(17) Spring Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Reliability Section, Morristown, NJ (2004);

(18) International Roundtable at the ASCE National Conference, Los Angeles, CA (2005); (19) Third Conference of the International Congress on Chemistry and the Environment,

Kuwait (2007); (20) International Conference on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, Shanghai,

China (2010); (21) ASCE Joint International Conference on Risk and Uncertainty (ICVRAM - ISUMA),

Maryland (2011); (22) Georisk International (ASCE-sponsored) Conference, Atlanta, GA (2011); (23) Eighth Chinese National Conference on Random Vibration, Chengdu, China (2012). Lecturer, Professional Short Courses: At Udine, Italy (1977), Stanford University (1978); Princeton University (1980); University of Leuven (1977 and 1984); Technical University of Berlin (1982); Taipei, Taiwan (1983); Poona, India (1983); The World Bank (1984); M.I.T. Nuclear Plant Safety Summer Course (annually, 1978-84); Professional Development Programs at Stone and Webster (1976); Acres International (1980); U.S. Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (1978); Woodward-Clyde Consultants (1980); U.S. Forest Service (1979); U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (1980); M.I.T. Industrial Liaison Program Symposia on Systems Reliability and Risk Assessment (at Cambridge, MA: 1982, 1983; Tokyo, Japan: 1984); INTEVEP, Caracas, Venezuela (1990); Building Research Institute, US National Research Council (1991); New England Regional Seismic Safety Seminar, EERI (1992); Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands (2003); Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences (BIOS) Risk Prediction Initiative (2006 and 2007); Council on Disaster Risk Management (ASCE) Video-taped Lectures Initiative (2011); Tsinghua University, China (2013). Special Programs: Organized Summer Programs at M.I.T. on “Risk and Decisions in Geotechnical Engineering”

(1976) and “New Perspectives on the Safety of Dams” (1979 and 1983). Conducted 4th Annual Workshop on “Statistics in Water Resources”, at the University of

Texas at Austin, 1986. Organized Workshop on “Spatial Variation of Earthquake Ground Motion”, at Princeton

University, 1988. Co-organized Workshop on “Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering”, at ASCE

Conferences held at Madison, Wisconsin, 1996 and Logan, Utah, 1997. Organized Workshop on “Probabilistic Site Characterization at the National Geotechnical

Experimentation Sites (NGES)”, at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1998. Co-organized Workshops on “Acceptable Risk Processes” at ASCE Conferences at Long

Beach, CA (2003), Baltimore, MD (2004), and Los Angeles, CA (2005). Conducted Workshop on “Safety Assessment in the Oil Industry”, at the 3rd Conference of

the International Congress on Chemistry & Environment, Kuwait City, Kuwait, 2007.

Organized Symposium on “Hurricanes and Insurance”, at ASCE National Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2007.

Conducted Workshop on “Random Fields with Applications to Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Risk Assessment”, at Chongqing University, China, 2009.

Participated in Panel Discussion on the Japan Nuclear Plant Disaster after the March 12, 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, 2011.

Organized Symposium on “Risk Assessment, Hurricanes, and Coastal Hazards” at Princeton University, May 2013.

Co-organized Mini-Symposium on “Multiple Hazards Associated with Tropical Cyclones and Other Windstorms”, at ICOSSAR-2013, New York City, 2013.

CONSULTING FOR GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY (listed chronologically, based on initial involvement):

Agbabian and Associates; John Hancock Insurance Company; Crandall Drydock Corporation (through Hansen, Holley and Biggs); Tennessee Valley Authority, Boston Edison Corporation, Yankee Atomic Electric Company, Consumers Power Company (through Weston Geophysical Corporation); Stone and Webster Corporation; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Woodward-Clyde Consultants; General Electric Company; Black and Veatch; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard University; Deutsche Babcock; Bundesanstalt für Materialprüfung, Germany; Dames and Moore; T.W. Lambe and Associates; Jack Benjamin and Associates; Sandia National Laboratories; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station; Defense Nuclear Agency; Federal Emergency Management Agency; U.S. Forest Service; White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); United Nations Development Agency; The World Bank; Synenergy, Inc.; Nixon, Hargrave, Devans and Boyle; Electric Power Research Institute; Norwegian State Oil Company (STATOIL); Phillips Petroleum Co.; Norwegian Geotechnical Institute; Southwest Research Institute; NOVA Corporation of Calgary, Alberta; U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; WBUX Radio; INTEVEP, S.A. (Research Institute for Petroleo de Venezuela); General Star Corporation; Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (through Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley); Schlumberger-Doll Corp.; GeoFields, Inc.; National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST); Baseline Management Company; Kuwait University School of Science; U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center; Government of the Netherlands (D.G. Water, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment). RESEARCH INTERESTS & THESES SUPERVISED Research Interests: Risk assessment and management; random fields and random media; stochastic finite elements; seismic risk; random vibration -- theory and applications to wind, earthquakes and sea waves; hurricane risks; probabilistic site characterization; safety of dams and levees; modeling the energy-density fluctuations in the very early universe. Theses Supervised: Over 60 graduate (master’s and doctoral) theses at M.I.T. and Princeton University, and 40 senior (BSE) theses at Princeton University.

PERSONAL U.S. Citizen (since 1978). Born in Belgium on August 6, 1941. Married. Three children. Modern Languages: English, Dutch (Native), French, German and Spanish.

Curriculum Vitae ERIK VANMARCKE PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS Random Fields: Analysis and Synthesis, (1st Edition: The MIT Press, 1983). Second (Revised and Expanded) Edition, World Scientific Publishing Company, July 2010. Infrastructure Risk Management Processes, Natural, Accidental, and Deliberate Hazards, (with C. Taylor), Eds., Monograph No. 1, ASCE Technical Council on Disaster Risk Management, Published by ASCE, 2006. Probabilistic Site Characterization at the National Geotechnical Experimentation Sites, (with G. Fenton), Eds., Geotechnical Special Publication 121, Geo-Institute of ASCE, Published by ASCE, 2003. Acceptable Risk Processes: Lifelines and Natural Hazards, (with C. Taylor), Eds., Monograph No. 21, Council on Disaster Risk Management and Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, Published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2002. Quantum Origins of Cosmic Structure, A.A. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands & Brookfield VT, ISBN 90-5410-64-3, 1997. JOURNAL ARTICLES AND OTHER MAJOR REFEREED PUBLICATIONS “Physically-based Hurricane Risk Assessment”, Chapter in Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications, Edited by A. Ismail-Zadeh et al., Published by Cambridge University Press, 2013. (with N. Lin and K. Emanuel). “Hurricane Risk Analysis – A Review”, in the Mini-Symposium on Multiple Hazards Associated with Tropical Cyclones and Other Windstorms, at ICOSSAR-2013, held at Columbia University, New York; Published in the Conference Proceedings, 2013. (with N. Lin and K. Emanuel). “Reliability Analysis of Long Multi-Segment Earth Slopes”, Chapter in Foundation Engineering in the Face of Uncertainty, Edited by J.L. Withiam, K.K. Phoon and M.H. Hussein, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 229, pp. 520-529, Published by ASCE, 2013. (with Y. Otsubo). “Physically Based Assessment of Hurricane Surge Threat under Climate Change”, Nature Climate Change, Vol. 2, 462-467 (2012). Published Online 14 February 2012, DOI: 10.1038, NCLIMATE1389. (with N. Lin, K. Emanuel & M. Oppenheimer).   “Risk of Limit-Equilibrium Failure of Long Slopes: How it Depends on Length”. Keynote Lecture, Proceedings of Georisk International Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2011, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 224, Published by ASCE, June 2011, pp. 1-29.  “Quantitative Risk Analysis Applied to Dams”, Proceedings of the 4th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region (CECAR-4), Taipei, June 2007; Published by the Asian Civil

Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC), pp. 17-21, 2007; also published in CDRM Monograph No. 5, ASCE, June 2011, pp. 20-26. “Quantitative Risk Analysis of Damage to Structures during Windstorms: Random Field and System Reliability Aspects” Keynote Lecture, Proceedings of ICVRAM 2011 and ISUMA 2011 Conferences, in Vulnerability, Uncertainty and Risk: Analysis, Modeling and Management, Ed. Bilal M. Ayyub, Published by ASCE, pp. 11-20. (with N. Lin). “Hurricane Damage and Loss Estimation Using and Integrated Vulnerability Model, Natural Hazards Review 12, 184 (2011); doi:10.1061/(NH.1527-6996.0000035 (6 pages). (with N. Lin & S.C. Yau).  “Reliability-based Evaluation of Design and Performance of Steel Self-centering Moment Frames”, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 67, Issue 10, October 2011, pp. 1495-1505. (with G. Herning & M. Garlock). “Quantitative Risk Analysis of Damage to Structures during Windstorms: Some Multi-scale and System Reliability Effects”, Keynote Lecture, Proceedings International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, Shanghai, China; scheduled for Publication in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 2013; also Published by Tongji University Press, pp. 93-101, 2010. (with N. Lin & S.C. Yau). “Risk Assessment of Hurricane Storm Surge for New York City”, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D18121, doi: 10.1029/2009JD013630, 2010. (with N. Lin, K. Emanuel & K.A. Smith). “Windborne Debris Risk Analysis – Part I. Introduction and Methodology”, Wind and Structures, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 191-206, 2010. (with N. Lin). “Windborne Debris Risk Analysis – Part II. Application to Structural Vulnerability Modeling”, Wind and Structures, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 207-220, 2010. (with N. Lin & S.C. Yau).  “Reliability-based Evaluation of Design Procedures for Steel Self-centering Moment Frames”, Proc. 9th US National & 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Canada, 2010. (with G. Herning & M. Garlock). “Quantifying the Benefits of Risk Reduction in Civil Infrastructure Systems”, Chapter 10 in Frontier Technologies for Infrastructures Engineering, Eds. S.-S. Chen and A. Ang, CRC Press (Francis & Taylor), Boca Raton, pp. 215-222, 2009. “Windborne Debris Risk Assessment”, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 23, pp. 523-530, 2008. (with N. Lin). “Surviving Nature’s Forces: Can Civil Engineers Build Safe Communities?”, Chapter 2 in Disaster Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Arrival of the South Asia Tsunami Wave in Thailand, Eds. N. Uddin and A. Ang, CDRM Monograph No. 2, Published by ASCE, Reston, VA, pp. 10-16, 2008. (with Y. Wang). “Wind Field Statistics: Literature Review and Research Needs”, Proceedings of the US-Bangladesh Workshop on Innovation in Windstorm/Storm Surge Mitigation, Held at Dhaka,

Bangladesh, Dec. 2005. Published by BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and also by ASCE as CDRM Monograph No. 3, 2008. (with Z. Chen). “Random Field Modeling of the Void Phase of Soils”, Georisk, Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 57-68, 2007. “A Windborne Debris Risk Model”, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Cairns, Australia, Volume 2, pp. 1967-1974, 2007. (with N. Lin). “Hedgehog and Fox Strategies for Reducing Risks in Infrastructure Systems”, Natural Hazards Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 131-136, 2006. (with C. Taylor). “Reliability Assessment of Self-Centering Steel Moment Frames”, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2006. (with M. Dobossy & M. Garlock). “Comparison of Two Self-Centering Steel Moment Frame Modeling Techniques: Gap Element Models and Non-linear Rotational Spring Models”, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2006. (with M. Dobossy & M. Garlock). “Sensitivity and Reliability Assessment of Self-Centering Steel Moment Frame Systems”, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2006. (with M. Dobossy & M. Garlock). “Quantum-Physics-Based Probability Models with Applications to Reliability Analysis”, Chapter 16 in Reliability-Based Design Handbook, Nikolaidis, E., Ghiocel, D. and Singhal, S., Eds. Published by CRC Press, pp. 16.1-13, 2005. “Random Field Characterization of NGES Data”, in Geotechnical Special Publication 121, Geo-Institute of ASCE, Published by ASCE, pp. 61-78, 2003. (with G. Fenton). “Estimation of Spatial Correlation of Soil Parameters Based on Data from the Texas A&M University NGES”, in Geotechnical Special Publication 121, Geo-Institute of ASCE, Published by ASCE, pp. 29-40, 2003. (with A. Akkaya). “Seismic Vulnerability of Kuwait and Other Arabian Gulf Countries: Information Base and Research Needs”, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 21 (2), pp. 181-186, 2001. (with F. Bou-Rabee). “Earthquake Response Spectra Fluctuations: The Connection to Local Spatial Variation”, Keynote Lecture, Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Tehran, Iran, Vol. 1, pp. 15-26, 1999. “Spatial Variation in Liquefaction Risk”, Geotechnique, Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 819-831, 1998. (with G. Fenton). “Random-Vibration-Based Response Spectrum Method for Multi-Support Structural Systems”, Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 35-50, 1998. (with E. Heredia-Zavoni).

“Evaluating Models of Risks from Natural Disasters for Insurance and Government”, in Paying the Price: The Status and Role of Insurance against Natural Hazards in the United States, Eds. R. Roth & H. Kunreuther, Joseph Henry Press (National Academy of Sciences), pp. 239-249, 1998. (with C. Taylor & J. Davis). “Natural Fractal Variation: Cosmic Origin and Earthbound Applications”, Keynote Lecture, Proceedings 7th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability, Paris, France, 1995; Published in Vol. 3, pp. 1377-1386, A.A. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, 1996. “Random Processes and Random Fields in Earthquake Engineering”, Emilio Rosenblueth Symposium, Proceedings 11th. International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Acapulco, Mexico, Paper 2170, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1996. “Seismic Random Vibration Analysis of Multi-support Structural Systems”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 120, No.5, pp. 1107-1128, 1994; Closure, Vol. 121, pp. 1037-1038, 1995. (with E. Heredia-Zavoni). “Estimation of Lags for a Seismograph Array: Wave Propagation and Composite Correlation”, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 5-22, 1995. (with H.P. Boissières). “Spatial Correlation of Earthquake Ground Motions: Non-parametric Estimation”, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 23-31, 1995. (with H.P. Boissières). “Numerical Simulations of Soil Liquefaction using Stochastic Input Parameters”, Proceedings Third International Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 3, pp. 275-280, St. Louis, Missouri, 1995. (with R. Popescu & J.H. Prevost). “Stochastic Models of Fatigue Crack Growth”, Proc. Second International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Athens, Greece, June 1994; in Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Ed. P.D. Spanos, pp. 711-718, Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, 1995. (with R. Palma). “Stochastic Finite Elements and Experimental Measurements”, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 9, pp. 103-114, Jan. 1994; Published in T. K. Caughey Volume: Random Vibrations: A Broad Perspective, 1995. “Emilio Rosenblueth: Remembraza”, Invited Keynote Lecture, Proceedings Congreso Emilio Rosenblueth: Futuro de la Ingenieria Mexicana, Mexico City, May 1994. Published by Secretaria de Educación Publica, Mexico, pp. 27-33, 1994. “Local Spatial Variation of Earthquake Ground Motion”, Invited Paper, Proceedings 10th World Conference on Earthquake Eng'g, Madrid, Spain 1992; Balkema Publ., Rotterdam, pp. 6615-6621, 1994. “Risk-Based Bridge Management: Optimization and Inspection Scheduling”, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 21, pp. 897-902, 1994. (with M. Cesare, C. Santamarina & C. Turkstra).

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“Risk-Based Assessment of Dam Safety”, Proc. 3rd Engineering Mechanics Division Conference, ASCE, Austin, Texas, 1979. “Risk and Decision Analysis in Soil Engineering”, Proc. 9th Intern. Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Tokyo, Vol. 3, pp. 505-511, 1977. “Uncertainty in Settlement”, Proc. NSF Workshop on Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1977. “Simulated Earthquake Ground Motions”, Proc. 4th Intern. Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, San Francisco, 1977. “Ground Motion Spectral Content: The Influence of Local Soil Conditions and Site Azimuth”, Proc. 6th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, New Delhi, India, 1977. (with P. Arnold). “A Simple Procedure for Predicting Amplified Response Spectra and Equipment Response”, Proc. 6th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, New Delhi, India, 1977. “Approximate Random Vibration Analysis of Elastoplastic Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Structures”, Proc. Intern. Symp. on Earthquake Engineering, University of Missouri, 1976. (with G. Gazetas). “Exploration: Its Evaluation in Hard Rock Tunneling”, Proceedings U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Minneapolis, Published by U.S. Rock Mechanics Society, 1975. (with E. Lindner & H. Einstein). “Probabilistic Prediction of Levee Settlements”, Proc. 2nd Intern. Conference on Appl. of Probability and Statistics in Soil and Structural Engineering, Published by German Soil Mechanics Society, Vol. 2, pp. 175-190, 1975. (with N. Fuleihan). “Seismic Risk Analysis for Offshore Structures”, Proc. 7th Annual Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, pp. 145-151, 1975. (with C.A. Cornell). “A Model of Soil as a Random Medium”, Proc. Second ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Concepts and Methods in Civil Engineering, p. 57, Stanford University, 1974. “On the Time-Dependent Frequency Content of Oscillator Response”, Proc. Second ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Concepts and Methods in Civil Engineering, p. 120, Stanford University, 1974. (with R.B. Corotis). “A Probabilistic Approach to Estimating Settlements of Shallow Foundations”, Proc. Second ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Concepts and Methods in Civil Engineering, p. 56, Stanford University, 1974. (with J. Diaz-Padilla). “Methodology for Optimum Seismic Design”, Proc. 5th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Rome, Italy, 1973. (with C.A. Cornell, R.V. Whitman & J.W. Reed).

“Probabilistic Seismic Response of Simple Inelastic Systems”, Proc. 5th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Rome, Italy, 1973. (with D. Veneziano). “Problems of Analytical Methods in Hydrologic Data Collection”, Proc. Intern. Symposium on Uncertainties in Hydrologic and Water Resource Systems, Tucson, Arizona, Vol. 2, pp. 452-472, 1972. (with I. Rodriguez-Iturbe & J.C. Schaake). “A First-Order Description of the Frequency Content on Random Motions”, Proc. 3rd Canadian Congress on Applied Mechanics, Calgary, Alberta, pp. 447-448, 1971. “Estimation of Dynamic Properties of Structures and Soils”, Proceedings International Conference on Appl. of Probability and Statistics to Structures and Soils, Hong Kong, Ed. P. Lumb, Hong Kong University Press, pp. 640-660, 1971. (with R. Dobry & G. Madera). “Estimation of Dynamic Properties of Offshore Structures”, Proc. 3rd Annual Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, Vol. 1, pp. 827-836, 1971. “Markov Decision Models in the Design of Structural Systems for Repeated Sequences of Random Loading”, Bulletin of the Operations Research Soc. Am., Vol. 19, p. 3, 1971. “Steady State Response of Elasto-Plastic Systems to Random Excitation”, Proc. 4th Pan American Conf. on Structural Engineering, Buenos Aires, Vol. II, pp. 347-373, 1970. (with P.I. Yanev). “The Major Influences of Seismic Risk”, Proc. 4th World Conf. Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chile, 1969. (with C.A. Cornell). “Statistical Study of Earthquake Loading and Response of Structures”, Proc. ASCE Conf. on Probabilistic Methods in Civil Engineering, Purdue Univ., pp. 195-198, 1969. (with C.A. Cornell). RESEARCH REPORTS (In Dutch) “Bevindingen over het Lengte-effect in het Project Nederland in Kaart, Vooral bij het Faalmechanisme Piping” (Findings about the Effect of Length in Risk Assessment of Levee Systems, Especially for the Failure Mechanism Piping), Research Report (97 pages) Submitted to the Government of the Netherlands, The Hague, Holland, July 2011. “Evidence of a Large Prehistoric Earthquake in Kuwait and Implications for the Seismic Vulnerability of the Arabian Gulf Countries”, Risk Center Research Report Series No. RC-08-1, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, 2008. (with F. Bou-Rabee & Y.-L. Young). “New Attenuation Models for Arias Intensity and Strong-Motion Duration”, Risk Center Research Report Series No. RC-08-2, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, 2008. (with R. Pant).

“Use of Event Trees to Model the Progressive Collapse of Tall Buildings”, Internal White Paper, World Trade Center Towers Collapse Investigation, for the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), 2003. “On the Correlation Structure of Interest Rate Data”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-96-17, Princeton University, 1996. (with J. Garcia-Perez). “Quantum Origins of Cosmic Structure”, A Series of 12 Papers, Andromeda Desktop Publication (For Limited Distribution), Princeton, NJ., 1996. “Quantum Origins of Cosmic Structure (OCS): Contents and Preface”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-10, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-1 - Background: Homogeneous Cosmological Models”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-11, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-2 – Uncertainty of Properties of Single Energy Quanta”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-12, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-3 – Stochastic Model of Inflation by Particle Proliferation”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-13, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-4 - Cosmic Distribution of Matter and Antimatter”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-14, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-5 – Temperature and Entropy: Space-Time Variation”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-15, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-6 – Embryonic Inflation Model: Parameter Estimation”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-16, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-7 – Origin and Distribution of Chemical Elements”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-17, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-8 – Structure Formation: Role of Primeval Plasma”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-18, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-9 – Origin and Evolution of Galaxies and Quasars”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-19, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-10 – Origin and Evolution of Solar Systems”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-20, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-11 – Theory’s Consequences for Particle Physics”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-21, Princeton University, 1995. “OCS-12 – Complexity, Causality and Cosmic Genetics”, Statistics and Operations Research Report SOR-95-22, Princeton University, 1995.

“Final Report on ‘Infrastructure Risk Management: Prioritizing Bridges for Maintenance and Rehabilitation’”, University Transportation Research Center, 1992. (with M.A. Cesare, C. Turkstra & C. Santamarina). “SIMQKE-II: A Program for Conditional Simulation of Earthquake Ground Motion”, User Manual and Documentation, Structures & Mechanics Research Report SM-92-4, Princeton University. Presented at the Annual NCEER Investigator Meeting, Buffalo, N.Y., 1992. (with E. Heredia & G. Fenton). “Estimation of Lag-Shift Parameters between Stations of a Seismograph Array”, Structures & Mechanics Research Report SM-91-2, Princeton University, 1991. (with H. Boissières). “Local Fields of Earthquake Ground Motion: Conditioned Simulation”, Structures & Mechanics Research Report SM-91-3, Princeton University, 1991. (with G.A. Fenton & E. Heredia). ”Estimation of Log-Shift Parameters between Stations of a Seismograph Array”, Structures & Mechanics Research Report SM-91-2, Princeton University, 1991. (with H.P. Boissières). “Report on First-Year Research on ‘Infrastructure Risk Management: Prioritizing Bridges for Maintenance and Rehabilitation’”, Proc. Meeting of Transportation Research Center at CCNY, New York, 1990. (with C. Turkstra & C. Santamarina). “Space-Time Variation of Array Ground Motions”, Final Technical Report of Princeton-Kajima Joint Research (Phase I), PKJR-01-03, 1989. (with M. Miyamura, J.M. Cunniff, K. Kanda & K. Kato). “Random Vibration Approach to Seismic Reliability of Hysteretic Buildings”, Final Technical Report of Princeton-Kajima Joint Research (Phase I) PKJR-01-06, 1989. (with M. Nakahara, K. Kanda, B.K. Bhartia & Y. Tsuji). “Dynamic Reliability of 3-D Frame Structures”, Final Technical Report of Princeton-Kajima Joint Research (Phase I) PKJR-01-07, 1989. (with H. Ukon). “Variability of Response Spectra Parameters Across the SMART-1 Array”, Internal Study Report, Princeton University CEOR Department, 1989. (with E. Heredia-Zavoni). “Integrating Expert Systems and Mathematical Programming: An Example in Infrastructure Management”, Statistics & Operations Research Report SOR-88-9, Princeton University, 1988. (with H.L. Erickson & J.M. Mulvey). “Multi-Hazard Risk Analysis of an Offshore Structure”, Structures & Mechanics Research Report SM-88-7, Princeton University, 1988. (with B. Barthia). “Spatial Variation of Smart-1 Array Ground Motion Parameters”, Structures & Mechanics Research Report SM-88-6, Princeton University, 1988. (with J. Cunniff). “Frequency Content over Time in the Accelerograms of the Mexico Earthquake of September 19, 1985”, Structures & Mechanics Research Report SM-88-5, Princeton University, 1988. (with J. Cunniff).

“Simulation of Correlated Time Series”, Structures & Mechanics Research Report SM-88-1, Princeton University, 1988. (with G. Fenton). “Joint Report on the U.S.-Turkey Workshop on Earthquake Engineering and Seismological Networks”, Structures & Mechanics Research Report 86-SM-1, Princeton University, 1986. (with N. Toksos). “Structural Safety and the Role of Codes”, Structures & Mechanics Research Report 86-SM-4, Princeton U., 1986. (with J. Meko). “Correlation of Laboratory Uniaxial Strain Compressibility with Field Seismic Refraction Data”, U.S. Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station Technical Report SL-86-14, 1986. (with A.E. Jackson, Jr. & S.A. Akers). “Random Fields: Workshop Materials”, Fourth Annual Workshop on Statistics in Water Resources, December 3, 1986 at the University of Texas at Austin. Published by the Center for Research in Water Resources, U. Texas at Austin, 1986. “Spatial Variation of Earthquake Ground Motions”, Proc. 2nd Annual Meeting on NSF-EERI Research Program re the 1985 Mexico Earthquake, Mexico City, Published by EERI, 1987. “Spatial Variation of Earthquake Motion”, M.I.T. Dept of Civil Engineering Research Report, 1984. (with R. Harichandran). “Local Soil Amplification Effects at the Yankee Nuclear Power Site, Rowe, Massachusetts”, Weston Geophysical Corp. Report for Yankee Atomic Electric Company, 1983. (with E. Kausel & M. Bouchon). “Risk-Based Decision Analysis in Dam Safety”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R82-11, 1982. (with H. Bohnenblust). “Decision Analysis for Prioritizing Dams for Remedial Measures: A Case Study”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R82-12, 1982. (with H. Bohnenblust). “Site Amplification Effects for the Midland Nuclear Power Plant”, Weston Geophysical Corp. Report for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1981. (with E. Kausel & E. Samaras). “Induced Shear Stresses due to Earthquake Amplification for the Midland Nuclear Power Plant Site”, Weston Geophysical Corp. Report for Consumer Power Company, 1981. (with E. Kausel & E. Samaras). “Amplification Functions for Accelerograph Stations Used in the Development of Yankee Rowe Spectra”, Weston Geophysical Corp. Report, 1981. (with E. Kausel & E. Samaras). “Study of Basin-Effect on Earthquake Ground Motion at the Yankee Nuclear Power Station”, Weston Geophysical Corp., 1980. (with E. Kausel, M. Bouchon & K. Aki).

“Probabilistic Soil Sampling Program for MX-Related Site Characterization”, Waterways Experiment Station Miscellaneous Paper SL79-26, 1979. “On the Scale of Fluctuation of Random Functions”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R79-43, 1979. “Representation of Earthquake Ground Motion: Scaled Accelerograms and Equivalent Response Spectra”, Misc. Paper, S-73-1, Report 14 in Series on State-of-the-Art for Assessing Earthquake Hazards in the United States, W.E.S., Vicksburg, Miss., 1979. “Averages and Extremes of Random Fields”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R79-43, 1979. “Strong-Motion Duration of Earthquakes”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R77-16, 1977. (with P. Lai). “On the Reliability of Earth Slopes”, M.I.T. Department of Civil Engineering Technical Publication T76-2, 1976. “Variability of Inelastic Structural Response Due to Real and Artificial Ground Motions”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R76-6, 1976. (with R. Frank, S. Anagnostopoulos & J.M. Biggs). “Comparison of Seismic Analysis Procedures for Elastic Multi-Degree Systems”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R76-5, 1976. (with J.M. Biggs & R. Frank). “Simulated Earthquake Motions Compatible with Prescribed Response Spectra”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R76-4, 1976. (with D. Gasparini). “Subjective Reliability Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering: I-95 Embankment Case”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R75-42, 1975. (with M.E. Hynes). “Settlement of Structures on Shallow Foundations: A Probabilistic Analysis”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R74-13, 1974. (with J. Mitchell, E. Kavazanjian & W. Hawkes). “Settlement of Structures on Shallow Foundations: A Probabilistic Analysis”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R74-9, 1974. (with J. Diaz-Padilla). “Seismic Design Decision Analysis: Summary of Methodology and Pilot Application”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R73-58, 1973. (with R.V. Whitman & C.A. Cornell). “Seismic Damage of Inelastic Systems”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R73-5, 1973. (with D. Veneziano). “Tolerance of Buildings to Differential Settlements”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R72-79, 1972. (with R. Grant & J. Christian).

“An Approximation to the Failure Probability of Systems with Dependent Failure Modes”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Technical Report T72-7, 1972. (with C.A. Cornell & C.E. Shaw). “Estimation of Dynamic Properties of Offshore Structures”, M.I.T. Sea Grant Report 72-12, 1972. (with R. Iascone). “Reliability-Based Optimum Design of Simple Plastic Frames”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R72-46, 1972. (with J. Diaz-Padilla & D.A. Roth). “Parameters of the Spectral Density Function: Their Significance in the Time and Frequency Domains”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R70-58, 1970. “Response of Simple Hysteretic Systems to Random Excitation”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R70-66, 1970. (with P.I. Yanev & M. De Estrada). “First Passage and Other Failure Criteria in Narrow-Band Random Vibration: A Discrete State Approach”, (Ph.D. Thesis), M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R69-68, 1969. “On Measures of Reliability in Narrow-Band Random Vibration”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R69-20, 1969. “The Use of Amplification Functions to Derive Response Spectra, Including the Effect of Local Soil Conditions”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R69-48, 1969. (with M.A. Sarrazin & J.M. Roesset). “Analysis of Uncertainty in Ground Motion and Structural Response Due to Earthquakes”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R69-24, 1969. (with C.A. Cornell). “Introductory Probability for Civil Engineers”, A Set of ‘Programmed Instruction’ Frames, Developed under Ford Foundation Grant for Undergraduate Curriculum Development, M.I.T. Department of Civil Engineering, 1967. (with C.A. Cornell). “Optimum Location of a Network of Strong-Motion Accelerometers”, M.I.T. Dept. of Civil Engineering Research Report R67-63, 1967. (with C.A. Cornell). OTHER PUBLICATIONS BASED ON WORK AS EDITOR

Editorial (with Berrin Tansel) for Special Issue of Natural Hazards Review on Hurricanes and Insurance, Vol. 12, Issue 4, p. 157 (2011); doi:10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6096.0000066. Editor, Proc. NSF-NCEER Workshop on Spatial Variation of Earthquake Ground Motion, Dunwalke, 7-9 November 1988; Special Issue of Structural Safety, Elsevier Publ. Co., 1991. Editorials in Structural Safety: Vol. 1, No. 1, 1982; Vol. 2, No. 1, 1984; Vol. 6, No. 1, 1989; Vol. 10, No. 4, 1991. “Risk-Based Decision Analysis”, Chapter 3 in Safety of Existing Dams: Evaluation and Improvement, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 41-70, 1983.

Editor, Chapter SB-5: “Stiffness”, in Structural Design of Steel Buildings, Monograph on Planning and Design of Tall Buildings, Published by ASCE, pp. 343-400, 1979. Co-Editor, with J.M. Biggs, A Series on 17 Internal Study Reports on Seismic Safety of Buildings, NSF Research Project at M.I.T., 1975-1979. Concluding Report of the Seminar on Probabilistic Seismic Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants, Edited by Cornell, C.A., Newmark, N. and Vanmarcke, E., Published by Bundesanstalt für Materialprüfung, Berlin, 1978. Editor, “Risk and Decisions in Geotechnical Engineering”, Collection of Papers and Notes for the M.I.T. Special Summer Program 1.34s, M.I.T. Department of Civil Engineering, 1976. WEB-BASED AND VIDEOTAPED DOCUMENTS “Application of QRA to Dams and Levees”, Talk in CDRM (ASCE) Session on Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), Videotaped at ASCE Headquarters, 2011 “Series of Four Lectures on Applied Random Fields”, Videotaped at (and now available from) Tongji University School of Civil Engineering, Shanghai, China, 2011. “Testable New Theory about Origins of Cosmic Structure: Computational Challenges”, Videotaped Lecture in Series sponsored by the Program in Integrative Information, Computer and Application Sciences (PICASso), Princeton University, 2007.  “New York’s Risk of Storm Surge May Increase” (follow-up to article in Nature, 2012): URL: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n6/abs/nclimate1389.html URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120223133216.htm Article/Interview in Magazine “ILYA”, February 2013 Issue (In Dutch); See pages 28 & 29: URL: http://www.ie-net.be/ilya/public/pdf/ILYA_NR6.pdf OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION Two widely-used computer programs to generate synthetic earthquake ground motions, along with background papers/reports and user manuals, are available from the Earthquake Engineering Online Archive, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California at Berkeley. The web links are given below. SIMQKE-I: Simulation of Earthquake Ground Motions, by Vanmarcke, E., Cornell C. A., Gasparini, D. and Hou, S., Department of Civil Engineering, M.I.T.; Modified PC DOS version (1990) by T.F. Blake. URL: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/elibrary/getdoc?id=SIMQKE1ZIP SIMQKE-II: Conditioned Earthquake Ground Motion Simulator, by Vanmarcke, E., Fenton, G. and Heredia, E., Dept of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Princeton University URL: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/elibrary/getdoc?id=SIMQKE2ZIP