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Upcoming Events

Defense GAMETECH Users Conference

April 17-19, 2013, Orlando, FL
ARA experts will feature the UNREAL Government Network and UE licensing at the event. Gaming experts will discuss the current state of game technologies. Government, industry and academia will share knowledge, research and technology on virtual worlds and games for training.

2013 Reinsurance Association of America Catastrophe Modeling Conference

February 12-14, 2013, Orlando, FL
Applied Research Associates (ARA) is co-sponsoring the 2013 Reinsurance Association of American Catastrophe Modeling Conference being held in Orlando, February 12-14. Scientists, engineers and industry leaders from ARA's IntraRisk group will attend the event and ARA's Peter Vickery will present on new developments in wind field modeling. Please contact the IntraRisk team for more information.

NC Pharma Discussion Group - Annual Winter Event

Friday, December 7th, 2012, 11:30-6:00 pm – Durham, NC
"Virtual Technologies for Biomedical Training, Research, & Collaboration"
Jerry Heneghan, Rachel Clipp, Ph.D., Chris Basciano, Ph.D. – Applied Research Associates

53st Annual Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference

December 12, 2012 – Urbana, IL
ARA staff will attend the Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference which is specifically designed for people actively involved in asphalt construction: highway engineers; contractors; consultants; government officials responsible for developing, implementing, enforcing, and evaluating contractor regulations affecting bituminous construction; university researchers; and representatives of firms supplying goods and services to the industry. These professionals will come together on December 1st to share experiences and expertise in a vitality important industry.

IBTTA Maintenance and Roadway Operations Workshop

October 14-16, 2012 – Kansas City, MO
ARA Staff will speak in Kansas City for the Maintenance and Roadway Operations Workshop. The workshop will offer an array of timely subjects that will explore challenges and solution to operating an maintaining a toll facility. Topics during the workshop will include safety, technology, and incident management. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to participate in the community service project.

Florida Pesticide Residue Workshop

July 15-18th, 2012 – St. Pete Beach, Florida
ARA will be presenting at the TradeWinds Island Grand in St. Pete Beach, Florida. The workshop will discuss analytical methods and innovation technologies for pesticide and other chemical residue in foods and environmental matrices.

2012 Applied Research Associates (ARA) July Bermuda Seminar

Assessing Storm Surge Risk and Hurricane Frequency Modeling

July 17th, 2012 - Hamilton, Bermuda
We are pleased to offer a complementary seminar on July 17th, 2012 at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess in Hamilton, Bermuda. ARA's renowned scientists, engineers and business leaders will offer timely discussions to improve your ability to assess hurricane risk to insurance portfolios. We will introduce ARA's storm surge model for U.S. hurricane which expands the range of explicitly modeled perils in ARA's HurLoss hurricane model to wind pressure, wind-borne debris, rainfall-induced damage and storm surge; offering the most detailed view of hurricane risk available. We will also address important considerations when modeling hurricane frequency under long-term and WSST climate conditions.

20th Annual Biodetection Technologies 2012

Technological Advances in Detection & Identification of Biological Threats

June 28-29, 2012 - Washington, DC
Co-Located with Biosurveillance Symposium - June 27, 2012
ARA subject matter experts will be attending the 20th annual internationally recognized event in providing solutions to the challenges presented by the evolving pattern of complex biological threat agents of various origins.

3rd Workshop on Innovations & Modeling for Sustainable & Resilient Concrete Pavements

July 5-7, 2012, Lac-Delage, Quebec, CANADA
ARA staff will attend and present at the Third Advanced Workshop on Innovations and Modeling for Sustainable and Resilient Concrete Pavements. The workshop aims to bring together experts in concrete materials characterization, mechanics, modeling, and design to critically discuss and develop concepts to address existing limitations, lack of knowledge, and future direction for improvement of concrete pavement analysis, design, and construction.

NATMEC 2012/ ICWIM6

June 4-7, 2012, Dallas, TX
ARA employees will present at the 6th International Conference on Weigh-In-Motion (ICWIM6) will be held in conjunction with the North American Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NATMEC'2012). The conference is designed to address a broad range of technical issues related to weighing vehicles in motion, including providing access to the latest research and emerging technologies, analysis and application of the WIM data for improving transportation systems. The combined conference will provide a unique opportunity for traffic monitoring professionals from around the globe to meet, exchange information and address shared challenges. It is envisioned that the technical issues addressed in ICWIM6 will be well-aligned with the theme of the NATMEC'2012: improving traffic data collection, analysis and use.

2012 Minnesota Airports Conference

April 14-16, 2012
ARA is in the 2nd year of updating the Mn/DOT's airport pavement management system for the GA airports throughout the state. An ARA representative will be attending the 2012 MN Airports conference in Duluth on April 14-16 and will be available to review the reports for the airports inspected in 2011.

IAPA ANNUAL MEETING

March 12-13, 2012, Springfield, IL
The Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association hosts its annual meeting as a gathering of stakeholders in the asphalt industry of Illinois. These stakeholders include producers, suppliers, agencies, elected officials, consultants, and researchers. There are two general sessions at this meeting, one focused on technical issues and innovation and the other on government agency updates and funding outlooks.

SCAA 2012 Annual Conference

February 8-10, 2012 / Myrtle Beach, SC
ARA will exhibit at the SCAA Annual Conference which is a three day conference includng networking, exhibits and education for airport manager, commissioners, consultants, fbo managers and aviation enthusiasts.

RAA Cat Modeling Conference 2012

February 14-16 2012 / Orlando, Florida
ARA is a proud sponsor of the 2012 Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) Cat Modeling Conference focusing on The New Risk. Cat Models – The New Risk addresses the challenge of balancing the need for stable risk assessment tools versus the need for continued model improvement as better scientific, building performance, and historical loss data becomes available. ARA staff members will participate in the Cat Model comparison session as well as provide presentations on a variety of scientific and engineering components of our U.S. hurricane catastrophe model - HurLoss™.

ATC and SEI: Advances in Engineering Conference

October 24-26 2012 / Miami, Florida
ARA's IntraRisk Division is proud to participate in the ATC/SEI sponsored Hurricane Engineering Conference. Peter Vickery, PhD, P.E. and Frank Lavelle, PhD, P.E. along with other staff members will present recent advances in hurricane hazard modeling.

Additionally, Jeff Sciaudone, P.E. will present his research on the evolution and current state of the mandated insurance discount program in Florida, its basis in wind engineering, and its implementation via wind mitigation inspections. Below is an abstract of his presentation.

Lessons learned from building performance in Hurricane Andrew led to immediate improvements in the South Florida Building Code in 1994 and the eventual creation and adoption of the statewide Florida Building Code (FBC) in 2002. Alongside these building code improvements, numerous public and private programs to encourage wind resistant construction were also created. Concurrent with the adoption of the FBC, Florida Statute 627.0629 required all property insurers in Florida to recognize the wind resistive benefits of the FBC in their residential rate filings by February 2003. In effect, this statute requires insurers to provide discounts for homes that are built in accordance with the FBC, as well as to homes that were built prior to the FBC, but included similar wind-resistive features. The creation and implementation of this insurance incentive program has faced many challenges including; determination of the appropriate discounts by feature or combination of features, inspection protocols for documenting wind resistive features, dealing with intentional and unintentional errors introduced in the inspection process, and ensuring the actuarial soundness of the program.