Travel Support for the 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Reaching Beyond Borders; held July 25-29, 2010 in Toronto, Cananda.

该奖项为参加2010年7月25日至29日在加拿大安大略省多伦多举行的第9届美国全国和第10届加拿大地震工程：超越国界会议（http://2010eqconf.org/）的大约50名美国研究生和早期职业教师提供部分旅费支持。本次联合会议由地震工程研究所（EERI）和加拿大地震工程协会（CAEE）主办。这是两大地震工程学会首次联合召开双边会议。至关重要的是，研究生和早期职业教师有机会在这个重要的国际论坛上展示他们当前的研究成果，并在他们职业生涯的这个形成阶段接触到边界两侧科学家和工程师正在进行的前沿研究。EERI将管理差旅补助金，广泛宣传差旅支持的可用性，召集一个蓝带审查小组来评估申请，协调差旅安排，并处理所有涉及到的行政程序，以确保早期职业，地震工程研究人员的参与。这一建议的智力价值反映在会议使这些早期职业研究人员有机会接触到来自美国、加拿大和其他参与减轻地震危害的国家的主要研究人员和专业人员。与以往的全国会议一样，这次联合会议将激发新的合作研究努力，与会者将接触到令人兴奋的新思想和概念，从而扩大他们的求知欲，远远超出他们目前的知识边界。这次会议将产生更广泛的重大影响。会议将发表约1000篇论文，涉及地震工程和减少地震风险的各个方面和学科，并将在会议结束后通过万维网提供电子会议论文集。

This award provides partial travel support for approximately fifty U.S. graduate students and early career faculty to participate in the 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Reaching Beyond Borders, July 25-29, 2010, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (http://2010eqconf.org/). This joint conference is sponsored by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Canadian Association for Earthquake Engineering (CAEE). This is the first time these two major earthquake engineering associations have joined forces to hold a bi-national conference. It is critically important that graduate students and early career faculty have an opportunity to present the results of their current research in this important international forum, and be exposed to cutting edge research being conducted by scientists and engineers on both sides of the border, at this formative stage in their careers. EERI will administer the travel grant, advertise broadly the availability of travel support, convene a blue-ribbon review panel to evaluate applications, coordinate travel arrangements, and handle all administrative procedures involved in ensuring the participation of early career, earthquake engineering researchers. The intellectual merit of this proposal is reflected in the access the conference provides these early career researchers to the leading researchers and professionals from the United States, Canada, and other countries involved in earthquake hazard mitigation. As in previous national conferences, this joint conference will stimulate new collaborative research efforts and conference participants will be exposed to exciting new ideas and concepts that expand their intellectual curiosity far beyond their current intellectual borders. This conference will have substantial broader impacts. The conference will host approximately 1,000 papers, addressing all aspects and disciplines that contribute to earthquake engineering and earthquake risk reduction, for inclusion in the electronic conference proceedings, which will be made available via the World Wide Web following the conference.