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.