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Program
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Wednesday, 7 May
09:00 Plenary: Hurricane Katrina - Perspectives on Risk and Reliability Session
Session Leader: Dr. Gerald E. Galloway, University of Maryland, "Flood Risk Management Implications of Katrina - The US National Perspective"
Panelists:
- Dr. L. E. Link, Director, Inter-agency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET). "The Challenges in Risk Determination and Communication."
- Mr. Jos Dijkman, Delft Hydraulics, "The Dutch Perspective on US Gulf Coast Protection?"
- r. John Barry, Author, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, and member, Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East. "Looking at Risk from the Inside"
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Parallel Session
Mitigation – Tools and Strategies
Chair: J. Bales
Analytical and Distributive Methodologies – Statistics and Optimization
Chair: M. Pahlov
Preparedness, Response and Recovery – Emergency Planning
Chair: K. Helbrecht
Various Perspectives – Case Studies
Chair: D. Sandink
Structural Approaches – Levees and Reservoirs
Chair: M. Kim
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Plenary: Assessing the Flood Risk
Session Leader: Mr. Pete Rabbon, National Flood Risk Management Program, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Davis, CA, Washington DC, USA
Panelists:
- Dr. Alberto de Sousa Costa, DMS Foundation, Canada
- Mr. Katsuhito Miyake, ICHARM, PWRI, Japan
- Dr. Paul Sayers, HR Wallingford, Ltd., United Kingdom
15:30 Tea Break
16:00 Parallel Session
Analytical and Distributive Methodologies – Uncertainty Analyses
Chair: P. Todhunter
Flood Management –Planning and Information
Chair: S. Blanchard
Analytical and Distributive Methodologies – Spatial Modeling
Chair: P. Bourget
Structural Approaches – Modeling and Design
Chair: S. Simonovic
18:00 Banquet in the Frontenac Ballroom - Ticket Cost $80 (CAD)
Speaker:
Gordon McBean, Professor, University of Western Ontario, “ICSU Planning Group for an Integrated Research on Disaster Risk program”
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