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Colloquium on risk analysis

<p> Everyone is invited to a colloquium...<br /> <br /> Emergent Risk Initiative @ ODU<br /> Together with the Department of Engineering Management &amp; Systems Engineering, ODU<br /> <br /> Presents<br /> <br /> 2012 &ndash; 2013 Colloquium Series: Social and cultural factors in engineering risk analysis<br /> <br /> November 29, 2012 &nbsp;2:30-3:00 PM (EST)<br /> Webcast: <a href="https://webmail.odu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=F0K-gv53aE-DompPLdOcSvtnL_cIoM8IHw44cNW0tVmDortZxEI-0FvX70SGV9cFNpJ2tqtjMVM.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fconnect.odu.edu%2femergentriskinitiative%2f" target="_blank">http://connect.odu.edu/emergentriskinitiative/</a><br /> Face-to-face: Kaufman Hall room 247, ODU<br /> <br /> <br /> Facilitated by<br /> <br /> Cindy Daniels<br /> Director of the Science Office for Mission Assessments (SOMA),<br /> NASA Langley Research Center<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Summary<br /> There is more to risk that just quantitative analysis. &nbsp;We need to consider the social and cultural factors in addition to quantitative analysis when assessing overall risk to society of significant projects. This presentation lays out a framework to map social risk to traditional risk factors. &nbsp;This enables consideration of non-quantitative risk factors in parallel with quantitative risk factors.<br /> <br /> More details in the attached flyer.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;</p>

Posted By: Cesar Pinto
Date: Tue Nov 27 02:56:55 EST 2012

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