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Wednesday, 7 May

09:00     Plenary:  Hurricane Katrina - Perspectives on Risk and Reliability Session

Session Leader: Dr. Gerald E. Galloway, University of Maryland, "Flood Risk Management Implications of Katrina - The US National Perspective"

Panelists:

• Dr. L. E. Link, Director, Inter-agency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET). "The Challenges in Risk Determination and Communication."
• Mr. Jos Dijkman, Delft Hydraulics, "The Dutch Perspective on US Gulf Coast Protection?"
• r. John Barry, Author, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, and member, Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East. "Looking at Risk from the Inside"

10:30     Coffee Break

11:00     Parallel Session

Mitigation – Tools and Strategies
Chair: J. Bales

Analytical and Distributive Methodologies – Statistics and Optimization
Chair: M. Pahlov

Preparedness, Response and Recovery – Emergency Planning
Chair: K. Helbrecht

Various Perspectives – Case Studies
Chair: D. Sandink

Structural Approaches – Levees and Reservoirs
Chair: M. Kim

12:30     Lunch

14:00     Plenary:  Assessing the Flood Risk

Session Leader: Mr. Pete Rabbon, National Flood Risk Management Program, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Davis, CA, Washington DC, USA

Panelists:

• Dr. Alberto de Sousa Costa, DMS Foundation, Canada
• Mr. Katsuhito Miyake, ICHARM, PWRI, Japan
• Dr. Paul Sayers, HR Wallingford, Ltd., United Kingdom

15:30     Tea Break

16:00     Parallel Session

Analytical and Distributive Methodologies – Uncertainty Analyses
Chair: P. Todhunter

Flood Management –Planning and Information
Chair: S. Blanchard

Analytical and Distributive Methodologies – Spatial Modeling
Chair: P. Bourget

Structural Approaches – Modeling and Design
Chair: S. Simonovic

18:00    Banquet  in the Frontenac Ballroom - Ticket Cost $80 (CAD)

Speaker:
Gordon McBean, Professor, University of Western Ontario,  “ICSU Planning Group for an Integrated Research on Disaster Risk program”

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