Prof. Charles Nicholson is currently accepting applications for a postdoctoral research fellow position in Community Resilience within the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Oklahoma with a planned start date for Summer/Fall 2020. This position will support on-going efforts within the NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning and… Read More »
Decentralized Reliability and Resilience for Infrastructure Networks Speaker: Leonardo Duenas Osorio When: 11:00a-12:00p Monday, December 10, 2018 Where: Devon Energy Hall, 120 Leonardo Duenas-Osorio is currently an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. He obtained his Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001, and Ph.D. from the Georgia… Read More »
Community Recovery Webinar Announcement Thursday, May 3, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (CDT) In this Community Recovery Webinar learn more about the NIST-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning and how the Center’s research is progressing to models of community recovery and to field studies. Webinar Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdGW7St1Ayk A resilient community is prepared for and… Read More »
Two new resilience publications! Well, here at the Analytics Lab @ OU 2017 started off nicely with two new articles published in the area of community resilience. We are also very excited about finally being able to share the virtual community we created named “Centerville” as a part of the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience… Read More »
Centerville Special Edition in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Enhancing community resilience in the future will require new interdisciplinary systems-based approaches that depend on many disciplines, including engineering, social and economic, and information sciences. The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning to Colorado State University and nine other… Read More »
COE Resilience Research A team from the analytics lab presented and competed at the NIST-funded Center of Excellence (COE) for Community Resilience biannual research meeting. Dr. Nicholson facilitated a session on Decision Algorithms and Weili Zhang participated in the poster competition with two submissions: “A multiobjective optimization model for mitigating community economic loss and population… Read More »
Semi-Annual Meeting of the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning: A NIST-funded Center of Excellent The Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (a NIST-funded Center of Excellence) is holding its semi-annual all-center meeting in Gaithersburg, MD on November 5-6 2015. The Center Team is composed of more than 90 individuals, including researchers, programmers/developers, NIST collaborators,… Read More »
col·lab·o·rate /kəˈlabəˌrāt/ verb work jointly on an activity, especially to produce or create something Research teams from the University of Oklahoma, Colorado State University, and Texas A&M all met recently for a two-day research meeting in Fort Collins, CO. The researchers met to discuss and define multiple optimization problems that integrate physical infrastructure, economic impacts, and… Read More »
Dr. Nicholson has been invited to serve on the Editorial board of a new peer-reviewed journal Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure published by Taylor and Francis Group which will be launching later this year. Paolo Gardoni, Civil and Environmental Engineer professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure will be an interdisciplinary journal that… Read More »
A new resilience paper “Flow-Based Vulnerability Measures for Network Component Importance: Experimentation with Preparedness Planning” authored by Charles Nicholson, Kash Barker, and Jose Ramirez-Marquez and has been accepted for publication in Reliability Engineering & System Safety. This work develops and compares several flow-based vulnerability me asures to prioritize important network edges for the implementation… Read More »