Plenary Keynotes and Special Lectures (Since 1998)
Plenary and Keynote Lectures at more than fifty International Conferences/ Symposia/ Workshops held in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the U.S., including:
- Sixth International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures (SHMII-6), Hong Kong, China, December 9-11, 2013 (Keynote Lecture)
- Fifty Fifth Congress of the Brazilian Concrete Institute (IBRACON 2013), Third Symposium on Subway, Railway and Highway Infrastructure, Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, October 29-November 1, 2013 (Keynote Lecture)
- Eleventh International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR2013), New York, USA, June 16-20, 2013 (Keynote Paper presented by M. Akiyama)
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Faculty of Construction and Environment, Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development, Hong Kong, June 13, 2013 (Public Lecture)
- Vienna University of Technology, Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems, Vienna, Austria, May 16, 2013 (Invited Lectures)
- Life-Cycle Lecture Series, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU, 2013 Announcement), Vienna, Austria, May 15, 2013 (Inaugural Lecture)
- The 23rd Dresden Bridge Symposium (DBBS), Dresden, Germany, March 10-12, 2013 (Plenary Lecture)
- Workshop on Innovations in Civil Infrastructure Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, January 9-11, 2013 (Keynote Lecture)
- First International Conference on Performance-based and Life-cycle Structural Engineering (PLSE 2012), Hong Kong, China, December 5-7, 2012 (Keynote Lecture)
- The Warren Lecture, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 9, 2012.
- SmartEN Marie Curie ITN - Network & Multidisciplinary Workshop, Imperial College, London, UK, October 8-10, 2012 (Plenary Lecture)
- Third International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2012), Vienna, Austria, October 3-6, 2012 (Keynote Lecture with M. Akiyama)
- International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM' 2012), Yokohama, Japan, August 5-8, 2012 (Plenary Lecture)
- Fifth Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Applications (APSSRA2012), Singapore, May 23-25, 2012 (Plenary Opening Address)
- First National Conference on Bridge Maintenance and Safety, Shanghai, China, April 13, 2012 (Keynote Lecture)
- The Wenyuan Lecture, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, April 12, 2012 (Special Lecture)
- Ninth International Probabilistic Workshop, Braunschweig, Germany, November 17-18, 2011 (Keynote Lecture)
- Fifty Three Congress of the Brazilian Concrete Institute (IBRACON 2011), Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, November 1-4, 2011 (Keynote Lecture)
- Second National Conference on Bridge Safety and Maintenance (ASCP2011), Coimbra, Portugal, June 29-July 1, 2011 (Keynote Lecture)
- Third International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN2011), ECCOMAS Thematic Conference, Corfu, Greece, May 25-28, 2011 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Conference on Sustainability of Constructions: Integrated Approach to Life-time Structural Engineering (COST Action C25), Innsbruck, Austria, Februray 3-5, 2011 (Keynote Lecture)
- Second International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2010), Taipei, Taiwan, October 27-30, 2010 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Symposium on Reliability Engineering & Risk Management (ISRERM2010), Shanghai, China, September 23-26, 2010 (Keynote Lecture)
- Fourth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC2010), Cape Town, South Africa, September 6-8, 2010 (Keynote Lecture)
- Symposium & Workshop NDT/NDE Technologies for Condition Assessment of Highways and Bridges (ASNT-SMT2010), New York, New York, USA, August 16-20, 2010 (Invited Lecture)
- Fifth Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region (CECAR5), Forum on Life-Cycle Cost and Performance Engineering, Sydney, Australia, August 8-12, 2010 (Invited Lecture)
- Workshop on Quantitative Tools for Condition Assessment of Aging Infrastructure (NIST2010), Boulder, Colorado, USA, May 4-5, 2010 (Keynote Lecture)
- Second International Symposium on Risk and Reliability Applications on Engineering Planning and Design, Toluca, Mexico, November 9-10, 2009 (Invited Lecture)
- Fourth International Symposium on Lifetime Engineering of Civil Infrastructure (ISLECI2009), Changsha, Hunan, China, October 26-28, 2009 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, October, 23, 2009 (Invited Lecture)
- International ECCE Conference (EUROINFRA2009), Current State and Challenges for Sustainable Development of Infrastructure, Helsinki, Finland, October 15-16, 2009 (Keynote Lecture)
- Tenth International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR2009), Osaka, Japan, September 13-17, 2009 (Keynote Lecture)
- Twelfth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CC2009) and First International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, September 1-4, 2009 (Opening Plenary Lecture)
- International Conference on Compuational Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN2009), ECCOMAS Thematic Conference, Rhodes, Greece, June 22-24, 2009 (Plenary Lecture)
- Munich Bridge Assessment Conference (MBAC 2009), Munich, Germany, May 27-29, 2009 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Symposium on Sustainability of Constructions: Integrated Approach to Lifetime Structural Engineering (COST C25), Naples, Italy, May 11, 2009 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Symposium on Safety and Durability of Materials and Constructions (SEDUREC 2009), Barcelona, Spain, February 25-27, 2009 (Special Lecture)
- Sixth International Probabilistic Workshop (IPW6), Darmstadt, Germany, November 26-27, 2008 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Workshop on Frontier Technologies for Infrastructures Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, October 23-25, 2008 (Invited Lecture)
- Ninth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology (CST2008), Athens, Greece, September 2-5, 2008 (Special Lecture)
- Fourteenth International Working Conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems (IFIP WG7.5), Toluca, Mexico, August 6-9, 2008 (Keynote Lecture)
- First International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE'08), Varenna, Lake Como, Italy, June 11-14, 2008 (Keynote Paper)
- Third International Conference on Lifetime Oriented Design Concepts, Bochum, Germany, November 12-14, 2007 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 25-28, 2007 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Symposium on Integrated Life-Cycle Design and Maintenance, Tongji Universtiy, Shanghai, China, May 16-18, 2007 (Keynote Lecture)
- Thirteenth International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP WG 7.5) Conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, Kobe, Japan, October 11-14, 2006 (Keynote Paper)
- Eighth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, September 12-15, 2006 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Conference on Asset Management for Roads and Highways, Melbourne, Australia, June 27-28, 2006 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Workshop on Life Cycle Assessment of Structures via Innovative Monitoring, Braunschweig, Germany, June 8-9, 2006 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Conference on Advances in Engineering Structures, Mechanics and Construction, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 14-17, 2006 (Plenary Lecture)
- Third International Probabilistic Workshop, Vienna, Austria, November 24-25, 2005 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Workshop on Lifetime Engineering of Civil Infrastructure, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan, November 9-11, 2005 (Keynote Lecture)
- Third International Conference on Life-Cycle Science and Engineering, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, October 24-25, 2005 (Keynote Lecture)
- Twenty Second International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) TC7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, Turin, Italy, July 18-22, 2005 (Plenary Lecture)
- Fifth International Conference on Bridge Management, Guildford, Surrey, England, April 11-13, 2005 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Workshop on Integrated Life-Cycle Management of Infrastructures, Hong Kong, China, December 9-11, 2004 (Keynote Lecture)
- Second International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring of Innovative Civil Engineering Structures, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 22-23, 2004 (Keynote Lecture)
- Seventh International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September 7-9, 2004 (Special Lecture)
- Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Applications, APPSRA'04, Seoul, Korea, August 19-20, 2004 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Workshop on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Bridges, Seoul, Korea, August 18, 2004 (Keynote Lecture)
- Second International ASRANet Colloquium on Integrating Structural Reliability Analysis with Advanced Structural Analysis, Barcelona, Spain, July 5-7, 2004 (Keynote Lecture)
- Second International Conference on Lifetime Oriented Design Concepts, Bochum, Germany, March 1-3, 2004 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Conference on Life-Cycle Management of Civil Infrastructures, Taipei, Taiwan, November 27-29, 2003 (Keynote Lecture)
- First International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructure, Tokyo, Japan, November 13-15, 2003 (Keynote Lecture for Special Theme)
- Second International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference, ISEC-02, Rome, Italy, September 23-26, 2003 (Keynote Lecture)
- Fourth International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, Stanford, California, September 15-17, 2003 (Keynote Lecture)
- Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 17-20, 2003 (Keynote Paper)
- Eighth International Conference on Computer Aided Optimum Design of Structures, OPTI 2003, Detroit, Michigan, May 19-21, 2003 (Keynote Lecture)
- Third International Workshop on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems and fib-JCSS Workshop on Probabilistic Modeling of Deterioration Processes in Concrete Structures , Lausanne, Switzerland, March 24-26, 2003 (Keynote Lecture)
- Third International Seminar for Safety of Infrastructure, Seoul, Korea, February 21, 2003 (Keynote Lecture at the Opening Ceremony)
- Third European Conference on Steel Structures, EUROSTEEL 2002, Coimbra, Portugal, September 19-20, 2002 (Keynote Lecture)
- ASRANet International Colloquium on Integrating Structural Reliability Analysis with Advanced Structural Analysis 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, July 8-10, 2002 (Keynote Lecture)
- Second International Workshop on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems, Ube, Japan, September 25-27, 2001 (Keynote Lecture)
- Ninth International Conference on Structural Faults and Repair, London, England, July 4-6, 2001 (Keynote Lecture)
- First M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 12-14, 2001 (Keynote Lecture)
- Second International Conference on Current and Future Trends in Bridge Design, Construction and Maintenance, Kowloon, Hong Kong, April 25-26, 2001 (Plenary Lecture)
- Fourth Japan Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability , JCOSSAR 2000 , Tokyo, Japan, November 6-8, 2000 (Keynote Lecture)
- International Workshop on Optimal Maintenance of Structures, Delft, The Netherlands, October 4-6, 2000 (Keynote Lecture)
- Fifth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Leuven, Belgium, September 6-8, 2000 (Invited Lecture)
- First U.S. - Japan Workshop on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 7-8, 2000 (Keynote Lecture)
- Fifth International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring of Aging Infrastructure (SPIE), Newport Beach, California, March 5-9, 2000 (Keynote Address)
- Eighth International Conference on Structural Faults and Repair, London, England, July 13-15, 1999 (Keynote Lecture)
- Eighth International Working Conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems (IFIP WG7.5), Krakow, Poland, May 11-13, 1998 (Keynote Lecture)