Invited Presentations
- February 13, 2009: “Levees: Learning from the past – Looking to the future”, ASCE chapter, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- January 27, 2009: "Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability of Levees in Select California Regions", EERI
Student Chapter of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
- November 21, 2008: “Variability of Levee Response Due to Time History Selection”, COSMOS annual
meeting and technical session, Oakland, CA.
- April 16, 2008: “Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability of Levees in Select California Regions”, University of
California, Berkeley, Geoengineering Wednesday Seminar Series.
- February 19, 2008: “Seismic Levee Fragility and Flooding Hazard for Select California Regions”, ASCE San
Francisco chapter - Geotechnical Group Workshop.
- December 19, 2006: “Investigation of the performance of the flood-protection systems of New Orleans in
Hurricane Katrina, on August 29, 2005”, Technical Chamber of Greece, Special Scientific Committee of Soil
Mechanics and Foundations and the Technical Chamber of Greece.
- November 16, 2006: “Overview of the Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans’ Flood Protection
Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005”, ASCE - Geo-Institute Student Chapter of Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX.
- October 24, 2006: “Performance of the flood-protection systems of New Orleans in hurricane Katrina on
August 29, 2005 – Lessons Learned”, University of California at Berkeley, Civil & Environmental
Engineering Graduate Student Society.
Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Ph.D.