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Events

Events, seminars and PhD defences to meet and get to know people and ideas from the IUSS Pavia.

Seminars

In addition to the main teaching activities, individual seminars are typically organised and students, staff and interested researchers are invited to attend. These typically consist of international experts providing insight into their areas of research in addition to seminars organised based on recent or relevant topics of interest, both nationally and internationally.

Events are publicised via the events main announcements page but a collection of past seminars is provided here.

09/01/2020 - Seismic Performance of Infilled RC Frames: from Lab Specimens to Actual Buildings - Andreas Stavridis

03/10/2019 - Frames and Solid Walls: Earthquake Resilient Construction from Roman Times to the Origins of the Modern Skyscraper - Randolph Langenbach

20/09/2019 - On the Frontline: Coastal Climate Risks and Responses in the South Pacific - John E. Hay

International Nigel Priestley Seminar
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As a part of the Earthquake Engineering Programme's activities, an international seminar is organised every year to provide Master and PhD students with an opportunity to present and discuss their research work to an audience of international experts. Since 2015, the seminar is named in honour of Prof. Nigel Priestley, co-founder of the ROSE School in 2001.

In addition to standard presentations on research work carried out within the programmes of the school, the annual seminar features also the tradition of inviting a prominent scientist to deliver a keynote lecture on a given contemporary and highly relevant topic in the field of earthquake engineering and engineering seismology. 

The seminar may also include the Doctoral Defence, featuring a committee of independent international experts in charge of the examination.

Further information about each year's seminar can be found on the events main announcements page.

A list of the previous editions of the International Seminar:

Doctoral defenses

Upon concluding their research and successfully submitting their dissertation, doctoral candidates are admitted to the public defence of their work before approval for graduation with the title of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). This involves each candidate giving a presentation of their research work and main contributions to the field followed by a discussion with the examination committee. This examination committee comprises a number of international experts in the relevant fields of research of the different presenting candidates. Once each doctoral candidate has finished their presentation and discussion with the examination committee, the examination committee then convenes in private to discuss and evaluate each doctoral candidate before announcing their final evaluation.

The doctoral defence sittings are public and may be attended by all and the invitations are published prior to each sitting on the university’s newsfeed. The programmes of each doctoral defence over the past number of years are available for download below.

  • 2 December 2020 - ROSE Curriculum (online)
  • 5 June 2020 - ROSE Curriculum (online)
  • 5 June 2020 - REM Curriculum (online)
  • 3 April 2020 (online)
  • 26 March 2020 (online)
  • 24 May 2019
  • 8 February 2019
  • 24 May 2018
  • 8 February 2018
  • 25 May 2017
  • 15/16 December 2016
  • 19 May 2016
  • 11 December 2015
  • 5 December 2014
  • 6 December 2013
  • 7 December 2012
  • 6 December 2011
  • 3 December 2010
  • 30 November 2009
  • 5 December 2008
  • 3 December 2007
  • 11 December 2006
  • 1 December 2005
  • 29 November 2004