Wednesday, September 2

9:00 – 10:00 | Response Spectrum Methods in Earthquake Engineering

Armen Der Kiureghian, P.E., NAE, F.EMI, M.ASCE 
President Emeritus
American University of Armenia
Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley


 13:00-14:00 | Engineering the Mechanics of Cancer Therapeutics 

Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D.
President and CEO 
BrYet Pharma US, Inc.

Thursday, September 3

9:30-10:30 | Mechanics of Dynamic Wind Effects: Fundamentals to Frontiers

Ahsan Kareem, Ph.D., NAE, F.EMI, Dist.M.ASCE 
Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering
Director, NatHaz Modeling Laboratory
Notre Dame University  
 
 

14:00-15:00 | Computational Modeling of Infrastructure Materials in the Era of Artificial Intelligence 

Gianluca Cusatis, F.EMI, M.ASCE 
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
 

Friday, September 4

9:30-10:30 | Two Minds, One Question: A Meeting Between Leonardo da Vinci and Feynman in Mechanics

Antonina Pirrotta, Ph.D., P.E., F.EMI, F.ASCE 
Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures
Head of Ph.D. School of UNIPA, Engineering Department 
L'Università degli Studi di Palermo