July 7th, 2020
CEISCE students' committee organizes an online scientific seminar afternoon for the students of the group. The program was as follows:
- 15h00-15h05: Opening by the CEISCE Students' Committee
- 15h05-15h30: Working in the industry after doing a Master/P.h.D. - Luis Zuluaga Rubio, engineer at EXP, former Master student at Université de Sherbrooke
- 15h30-15h55: Pursuing a career in academia - A. Farzam, Postdoctoral fellow at ÉTS
- 16h-16h15: Dynamic response of inelastic fixed-base and base-isolated steel structures under wind and earthquake - A. Athanasiou, Postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University.
- 16h15-16h30: Characterization of the concrete cracking limit state for the seismic analysis of gravity dams - A. Santos, PhD candidate at Université de Sherbrooke.
- 16h30-16h45: CDF modelling for the study of structural stability of dams and spillways subject to overtopping - M. Freitas, PhD candidate at Polytechnique de Montréal.
- 16h45-17h00: Seismic resilience assessment of reinforced masonry shear wall systems - S. Hosseinzadeh, PhD candidate at Concordia University.
The afternoon of workshops was a real success with more than 40 participants from all the member universities of the cluster. Student’s presentations abstracts can be found here.