Reckoning with the Risk of Catastrophe-Workshop scheduled for October 2012 in Washington, DC.

应对灾难风险研讨会定于 2012 年 10 月在华盛顿特区举行。

• 批准号: 1246941
• 负责人: Andrew Lo
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1246941&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Reckoning; Risk; Catastrophe; Workshop; scheduled

The steering committee of the seventh Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / National Science Foundation Research Conference, Reckoning with the Risk of Catastrophe, scheduled to be held October 3-5, 2012 in Washington, DC, asked Andrew Lo to put together a proposal to support American involvement in the research conference. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate true intellectual collaboration between American and German scholars. The bulk of the funds that Lo is requesting is to cover participant support costs for American scholars to attend the workshop. Approximately one-third of the American scholars selected to attend the workshop are students or early career professionals. The event will provide these students and junior researchers with an invaluable international experience. We know a great deal about disasters because disaster research has existed for more than 60 years. But the scale of recent events - particularly Hurricane Katrina, the financial meltdown, the Japanese Tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear problems that followed - have led scholars to seek new knowledge to better understand and manage potentially catastrophic risks. Researchers across countries and disciplines are beginning to investigate the root causes and common threads of such disasters, reinvigorating the study of catastrophic risk, and moving us closer to finding practical solutions.

第七届德国研究共同体/国家科学基金会研究会议的指导委员会，与灾难的风险，预计将于2012年10月3日至5日在华盛顿举行，要求安德鲁罗提出一项建议，以支持美国参与研究会议。会议的目的是促进美国和德国学者之间真正的智力合作。Lo要求的大部分资金用于支付美国学者参加研讨会的参与者支助费用。被选中参加研讨会的美国学者中约有三分之一是学生或早期职业专业人士。该活动将为这些学生和初级研究人员提供宝贵的国际经验。 我们对灾害有很多了解，因为灾害研究已经存在了60多年。但近期事件的规模--特别是卡特里娜飓风、金融危机、日本海啸和随后的福岛核问题--促使学者们寻求新的知识，以更好地理解和管理潜在的灾难性风险。各国和各学科的研究人员开始调查此类灾害的根源和共同线索，重振对灾难性风险的研究，并使我们更接近于找到切实可行的解决方案。