Chairman: Professor George Deodatis, Columbia University
All SC members are members of the Umbrella:
List of members of SC1
List of members of SC2
List of members of SC3
List of members of SC4
List of members of SC5
Communications:
Communications:
From the chairman (July 29, 2005):
In connection with ICOSSAR in Rome the Umbrella of IASSAR-CSMSE called for
a meeting on
Sunday June 19 with the following agenda. The minutes of the meeting are
placed below after the agenda.
AGENDA:
1. Suggestions to the agenda.
2. Minutes of Umbrella meeting June 17, 2001, in Newport Beach, and the meeting
in Corfu June 10, 2002, of
the IASSAR CSMSE Umbrella chairman,
SC chairmen / vice chairmen, IASSAR Executive Board members, and IASSAR officials
(see minutes of both meetings below).
3. Report from the SC chairmen (or representatives) on the standing and the activity of each of
the five subcommittees. Among the topics are:
3a. Arrangement of special sessions at the upcoming ICOSSAR'05,
3b. Contributions to award nominations (no names mentioned),
3c. Other activities to the advancements of the goals of IASSAR,
among these attempts to follow up on decisions made at the Umbrella
meeting in connection with ICOSSAR'01 in Newport Beach.
4. Discussion of whether the number of SCs should be increased or decreased in the
light of the activities of the committees.
5. The role of the Umbrella and its chairman (besides maintaining the IASSAR web page)
in the light of the experiences of almost vanishing impact of decisions taken
in Newport Beach and earlier.
6. Other matters.
Minutes of the meeting in Rome
2005 (reported by G. Deodatis)
Date: Sunday, July 19, 2005, 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Place: Cloister Hall (Sala Grande at Cloister North Side)
Chair: Ove Ditlevsen
Participants: J. Beck, A. Der Kiureghian, A. Naess,
P. Thoft-Christensen, G. Augusti, K. Sobczyk, Y.K. Wen, A. Haldar,
Z.P. Bazant, M. Gioffre, S. Arwade, S.K. Au, H.F. Lam, K-V. Yuen,
J. Ching, Y.L. Xu, L. Graham-Brady, C. Papadimitriou, S. Koutsourelakis,
V. Papadopoulos, T. Takada, R. Ghanem, B. Bhattacharya, S. Mahadevan,
J.D. Riera, G.I. Schueller, J.P. Conte, D. Frangopol, G. Deodatis.
1. Welcome from the chair.
2. The chair suggested holding umbrella meetings only during
ICOSSARs and not in the years in between.
The reason for this is the inability to proceed with
several initiatives suggested in the past. Examples include the
suggestion for publishing a handbook (Newport Beach) and a glossary
of technical terms (Armen Der Kiureghian). The chair also
mentioned a previous discussion of the CSMSE umbrella regarding
a suggestion for stronger cooperation between IASSAR and CERRA.
Gerhart Schueller suggested that the CSMSE umbrella chair should
contact other deterministic conferences in computational mechanics
and other related fields to organize sessions and promote probabilistic
methods to the deterministic community.
3. Reports from subcommittee chairs:
SC1 by G. Deodatis: The subcommittee organized 15 sessions at ICOSSAR
including two mini-symposia. Four working groups are working towards writing
four state-of-the-art reports to be published in refereed journals.
Several new members will be nominated.
SC2 by A. Naess: The subcommittee organized 3 sessions at ICOSSAR.
Several new members were admitted last year. Suggestion to combine or
incorporate into SC1 because of interest in computational issues.
SC3 by A. Der Kiureghian: The subcommittee organized a mini-symposium
(3 sessions) at ICOSSAR (and possibly 1 or 2 additional sessions from
its members). Eight potential new members have been identified. The
glossary idea was discussed and there was positive reaction.
Contribution to next IFIP.
SC4 by K. Sobczyk: The subcommittee organized 1 session at ICOSSAR
(and possibly 1 mini-symposium from its members). It also organized a
workshop in February of 2004 with 50 participants resulting in a book
on Random Material Microstructure. It also organized 1 session during
the 21st IUTAM Congress. The subcommittee needs more members.
The problem is that researchers in this field have interest
in other organizations. Only 3 members participated in the
subcommittee's meeting in Rome.
SC5 by J. Beck: The subcommittee organized a mini-symposium (3 sessions) at ICOSSAR.
Three new members were nominated. Lambros Katafygiotis will be
the subcommittee's vice-chair. The subcommittee's members
worked on a special issue on health monitoring that appeared
in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (a total of 16 papers).
A suggested activity is summarizing structural health
monitoring developments in the last 5 years.
The subcommittee will explore this activity. An area of
future focus that was identified is model class selection using a Bayesian approach.
4. A discussion of whether the number of SCs should be increased or
decreased in the light of the activities of the subcommittees followed.
Ove Ditlevsen started the discussion by asking: "Do we need all these
subcommittees?" He mentioned that SC1 is dominating, and the other
subcommittees have problems attracting active members.
Achintya Haldar ranked the activities of the subcommittees in the
following order: 1, 5, 3, 2, 4, and then suggested to eliminate the
lowest ones. Sankaran Mahadevan suggested to re-evaluate the subcommittees,
establish new names, and define new areas. Arvid Naess suggested to abolish
the subcommittee structure.
5. The next item discussed was the role of the umbrella and
its chairman in the light of the experiences of almost vanishing impact
of decisions taken in Newport Beach and earlier. Ove Ditlevsen expressed
his frustration that the suggested ideas have not been implemented.
He mentioned that the only real activity of the umbrella's chair has
been maintaining the IASSAR web page. Gerhart Schueller thanked
Ove Ditlevsen for his contributions over the years to the CSMSE umbrella.
6. Adjourn
The above agenda and minutes of the Umbrella meeting in Rome 2005 can be downloaded as
pdf file.
The minutes of the SC chairmen and IASSAR officials meeting on Corfu June
10, 2002 can be downloaded as
pdf file.
The last meeting of the entire IASSAR Umbrella Committee was held on June 17,
2001 in Newport Beach, California, USA, in
context with ICOSSAR'01 (June 17
to 22, 2001).
The aganda and minutes can be downloaded as
pdf file.
Minutes of previous meetings:
Krakow, San Diego, May 1998
(pdf file)
Santorini, June 1998
(pdf
file)
Baltimore, June 1999
(pdf
file)