Vancouver Institute

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND THE FUTURE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES

When: Where: P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC’s Point Grey Campus, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver.

This event has passed. A recording of this lecture will be posted here as soon as it’s available.

Share

Dr. Lisa Tobber

Assistant Professor, Civil, School of Engineering, UBC-Okanagan

Dr. Tobber is an Assistant Professor and the Principal’s Research Chair in Resilient Buildings at the University of British Columbia Okanagan and earned her PhD in Structural Engineering from UBC Vancouver. She leads the ASSET Group, a team of researchers dedicated to improving the seismic resilience of multi-story buildings through large-scale testing and numerical modelling. Dr. Tobber also leads the Build Better Cluster, a collaborative network of interdisciplinary researchers and industry partners focused on rethinking building design and construction to improve efficiency, resilience, and sustainability. She is also a committee member for the National Model Code Committee on Seismic Design, contributing to the development of seismic standards that shape building codes across Canada. 

Previous lecture

CHASING SHADOWS: CYBER ESPIONAGE, SUBVERSION AND THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY

Ronald Deibert is a global expert in digital technology, security, and human rights, known for his groundbreaking work on cyber security. His latest book, Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society (2020), based on his Massey lectures, won the 2021 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. He is also the author of Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of The Internet (2013), along with numerous influential articles, chapters, and reports on internet censorship, surveillance, and cybersecurity. Dr. Diebert’s work has earned prestigious honours, including the University of Toronto’s President’s Impact Award (2017), Foreign Policy’s Global Thinker Award (2017), the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (2015), the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (2014), and the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada Award from the Canadian Library Association (2014). He co-founded and was a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor projects.

Next lecture

HOW DOES DISINFORMATION AFFECT DEMOCRACY?

Dr. Heidi Tworek’s research examines the history and policy of communications, focusing on how new media technologies impact democracy. Her interest in democracy was spurred by writing her prize-winning book, News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945 (2019). Dr. Tworek’s insights have been featured in major outlets including The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Politico, The Globe & Mail, The Financial Times, and CNN. She also contributes a monthly column for the Centre for International Governance Innovation, where she is a senior fellow. Additionally, she is a non-resident fellow at both the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Dr. Tworek co-edits the Journal of Global History and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s New College of Scholars, Artists and Scientists.