報告承辦單位：土木工程學院

報告內(nèi)容：Efficient reliability analysis with imprecise probabilities

報告人姓名：Michael Beer

報告人所在單位：德國漢諾威萊布尼茲大學

報告人職稱/職務及學術頭銜：教授、漢諾威萊布尼茲大學風險與可靠性研究所所長

報告時間：10月1日（周日）10:00

報告地點：工科二號樓B304

報告人簡介：Michael Beer is Professor and Head of the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universit?t Hannover, Germany. He is also part time Professor at the University of Liverpool and guest Professor at Tongji University and Tsinghua University, China. He obtained a doctoral degree from Technical University Dresden, Germany, and worked for Rice University, National University of Singapore, and the University of Liverpool, UK. Dr. Beer’s research is focused on uncertainty quantification in engineering with emphasis on imprecise probabilities. Dr. Beer is Editor in Chief of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A Civil Engineering and Part B Mechanical Engineering. He is also Editor in Chief (joint) of the Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering, and Associate Editor of Information Sciences. He has won several awards including the Alfredo Ang Award on Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure of ASCE. Dr. Beer is the Chairman of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA) and a Co-Chair of Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee (RRMC), Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD), ASCE. He is serving on the Executive Board of the International Safety and Reliability Association (IASSAR) and on the Executive Board of the European Association of Structural Dynamics (EASD). He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and a Member of ASCE (EMI), ASME, CERRA, IACM and GACM.