Risk Assessment for Socio-Technical Systems by Christian W Probst, Technical University of Denmark. Attacks on systems and organisations increasingly exploit human actors, for example through social engineering. This non-technical aspect of attacks complicates their formal treatment and automatic iden- tification. Formalisation of human behaviour is difficult at best, and attacks on socio-technical systems are still mostly identified…

The panel will be an informal discussion with C&S alumni about their experiences in the C&S program and their careers since graduating. The hope is to give current C&S students a better idea about the career opportunities potentially available to them. The following alumni are planning to attend via teleconference: Kishan Chetan (MS, CE 2000)…

Innovative Seismic Performance Enhancement Techniques for Steel Building Beam-Column Connections Speaker: Dr. Machel Morrison Mann Hall 307  

Updates to the Direct-Displacement Based Design Method and a Discussion of Future Bridge Research Topics During spring semester, 2016, Dr. Kowalsky was on scholarly leave. During that period, he focused on three tasks: (1) Updates to the direct-displacement based design (DDBD) method and implementation into a new edition of a textbook; (2) Development of new…

NCSU library staff will present a short workshop on data visualization including best practices, current trends, and useful tools.

Chris Lenhardt, Brian Blanton Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), UNC-CH   Most, if not all, contemporary science disciplines use an array of digital data sources, tools, models, and cyberinfrastructure. However, most scientists still conduct their analyses at a local level, i.e. their desktop, or within the constraints of their institutional compute and data infrastructure, and spend a…