This page provides selected presentations which have been delivered at international conferences and invited seminars at universities and other institutions. This page is not an exhaustive list of presentations, and deprecated presentations are purposefully not displayed.
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Misc: 2016-2024: QuakeCoRE Research Accomplishments presentations page
Presentations: 2025
"Several insights from a decade of earthquake reconnaissance and response in New Zealand" UCL Department Seminar, London, UK, 6 Aug 2025
"Lessons from the 2022 New Zealand national seismic hazard model: A 20-year science update, and impacts on seismic design standards for structural and geotechnical systems". UCL Department Seminar, London, UK, 28 July 2025. (Slides)
"The opportunity of ground-motion simulation for seismic hazard analysis". International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) International Interactive Technical Talk (IIT). Episode 23. 17 April 2025.
Presentations: 2024
"Calibration, validation and utilization of 3D ground-motion simulations for seismic hazrd analysis, with example application to New Zealand". Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea, 26th September 2024. (Slides). [also delivered for the Korean Geotechnical Society at KAIST, Daejon on 25th September 2024]
"Lessons from the 2022 New Zealand national seismic hazard model: A 20-year science update, and impacts on seismic design standards for structural and geotechnical systems". Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. 24th September 2024. (Slides)
"The link between ground motion intended use and necessary validation/acceptance criteria". PEER-LBNL workshop on ground-motion simulations. 18th January 2024. (Video) (Slides)
Presentations: 2023
"Calibration, validation, and utilization of 3D ground motion simulations in New Zealand". 37th Annual ASCE Spring seminar in honour of Prof. Steven Kramer. 13th May 2023. Also delivered at University College London on 3 August 2023.
Presentations: 2022
"Prediction of earthquake-induced ground motions using simulation methods and their validation against validations" (video) 20th ISSMGE Conference. 1-5 May 2022. (Video) (Slides).
Presentations: 2021
"Validation of ground-motion simulations using large datasets in New Zealand" PEER Pacific Rim forum, 17 June 2021 (Video) (PDF slides)
Presentations: 2020
"Observed ground motion basin amplifications and modelling for future events" NZSEE Seminar Series (in place of Annual Conference), 14 May 2020
Presentations: 2019
"Several insights from a decade of earthquake reconnaissance and response in New Zealand" SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, 9 Sept 2019
"The New Zealand Community Velocity Model (NZVM): Development, iteration and applications". Community Velocity Model TAG workshop, SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, 7 Sept 2019
Presentations: 2018
"Simulation-based ground motion prediction of historical and future New Zealand earthquakes and consequent geohazard impacts". Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (GEESD), Austin, Texas, 11-13 June 2018;
"Present and future directions in ground motion modelling: Implications for seismic design and assessment". NZSEE Annual Conference, Auckland, 13-15 April 2018;
"Damage, recovery and resilience - 2010 to 2011 Canterbury and 2016 Kaikoura earthquake, a case study". International Engineering Symposium - Sustainable Infrastructure Successful Economy. 23 April 2018. Suva, Fiji
"HPC utilization in end-to-end earthquake resilience research: QuakeCoRE as an example of science and software collaboration". eResearch 2018, Queenstown, 12-14 February 2018;
Presentations: 2017
"On-going challenges in physics-based ground motion prediction and insights from the 2010-2011 Canterbury and 2016 Kāikoura, NZ earthquakes". 3rd International Conference on Performance-based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (PBD-III), Vancouver, 16-19 July 2017; 2017 Australian Earthquake Engineering Society (AEES) Annual Meeting, Canberra, 24-26 November 2017.
Presentations: 2016
"Use of site-specific response analysis at Heathcote Valley to examine extreme ground motion amplitudes". QuakeCoRE Ground Motion Simulation and Validation Meeting, April 2016.
"What will an Alpine Fault earthquake feel like?". UC Connect Public Lecture, 24 May 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Presentations: 2015
"Validation of empirical and physics-based ground motion and site response models for the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes". TC203 Award Lecture, 6th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (6ICEGE), Christchurch New Zealand, November 2015. The same presentation was provided under a modified title as an invited presentation at the 10th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering (10PCEE), Sydney Australia, Nov 2015.
"High-resolution surficial shear wave velocity models in the Canterbury, New Zealand basin". Seismological Society of America (SSA) Annual meeting, April 2015. (video for SSA members)
Presentations: 2013
"Engineering aspects of the Canterbury earthquake sequence". Stanford University, September 2013 (similar presentations given in Berkeley, Austin, Ljubljana)
"A comparison of demand-based metrics for seismic performance assessment". Stanford University, September 2013 (similar presentation given at VEESD, Vienna, August 2013).
"Ground motion analysis of the Canterbury earthquakes: Results to-date and ongoing research". ICEGE Istanbul, June 2013.
"Seismic-hazard consistent ground motion selection using the generalized conditional intensity measure (GCIM) method". University of California, Berkeley, September 2013 (similar presentations given at Stanford University, Vienna).
"Spatially-distributed ground motion intensity maps: Application for site-specific liquefaction evaluations in Christchurch". NZSEE Wellington, New Zealand, April 2013.
Presentations: 2012
"3-D seismic response of liquefaction-susceptible improved-soil deposits". 15WCEE Lisbon, Portugal, September 2012. (similar presentation given at DS-11, Kobe)
"Simplified estimaton of soil state parameters and sensitivity analysis of undrained response". ICEGE Taormina, Italy, May 2012.
Presentations: 2011
"22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake: Are we adequately characterizing extreme/rare events?". SCEC Annual Meeting. September 2011
"The 4th September 2010 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake: Seismology and ground motions". ICEGE Santiago, January 2011
Presentations: 2009
"Structure-specific seismic risk assessment: An example application and its role in earthquake engineering". ICEGE Santiago, January 2011