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Mpact Week on Disaster Resilience at the University of Maryland
The University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering will be hosting its annual Mpact Week events from October 16th-22nd.
The greater College Park community is invited to attend the University of Maryland’s Mpact Week on Disaster Resilience, a comprehensive exploration of what engineers, researchers, and scientists can do to help prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from disasters, and make our community and infrastructure more resilient. The events will take place Oct. 16-22, and will include multiple sessions on a variety of related topics:
October 16: Fischell Festival in Bioengineering: Pandemic and Emergency Biomedical Response
October 17: UAVs and Robotics for Disaster Response (morning) and Resilient Communications (afternoon)
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October 18-19: UMD Homecoming Activities
October 20: Energy Solutions for Grid Resilience
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October 21: The Intersection of Research and Public Policy for Disaster Resilience, Capitol Hill Visitors Center
October 22: Multi-Hazard Resilience (morning) and Coastal Infrastructure (afternoon)
Speakers reserved for the week’s events include Alice Chamberlayne Hill from the White House, Stephen Redd from the CDC, David Miller from FEMA, Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Patricia A. Hoffman from the Department of Energy, Bradford Tousley of DARPA, and many other distinguished scholars and researchers from universities and organizations across the country. We have also invited OSTP Director John Holdren to speak, and are currently working with his staff to confirm his availability to participate. Mpact Week events are co-sponsored by the Big Ten Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE).
RSVP at: http://ter.ps/Mpact2014