At our annual conference on 10th September 2024, we welcomed over 150 in-person delegates to Aston University, Birmingham for the day.
We held project sessions, a series of talks and our first ever industry panel.
Morning Programme
Welcome and Introduction
Tom Kirkham, Project Lead
Keynote Presentation
Martine Wauben and Helen Huemer-Markides
DAFNI Updates
Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI Programme Lead and Dr Jens Jensen, DAFNI Team Lead
Project Updates
Room 1
STORMS
Dr Xilin Xia, University of Birmingham
D-RES
Dr Desen Kirli, University of Edinburgh
FIRM
Professor Richard Dawson, Newcastle University
ClimaTracks
Dr Giuliano Punzo, University of Sheffield
Project Updates
Room 2
SCQUAIR
Dr Richard Milton, UCL
SOFRAMODE
Dr Vassilis Glenis, Newcastle University
BRINES
Dr Hannah Bloomfield, Newcastle University
Pywr-WREW
Dr Anna Murgatroyd, Newcastle University
Afternoon Programme
Welcome Back
Professor Theo Tryfonas, University of Bristol
Keynote Presentation – University of Birmingham’s Digital Twin
Dr Asaad Faramarzi, University of Birmingham
Industry Panel Discussion
Project Updates
Room 1
RIWS
Dr Ana Mijic, Imperial College London
ForNet
Professor Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Durham University
NIRD
Dr Raghav Pant, University of Oxford
Project Updates
Room 2
USARIS
Saskia Salwey, University of Bristol
IMPACT
Dr Qiuchen Lu, UCL
MARS
Dr Fabian Steinmann, Cranfield University
Conference Closing Remarks
Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI Programme Lead
Agenda
Room 1:
STORMS: Strategies and Tools for Resilience of Buried Infrastructure to Meteorological Shocks
Dr Xilin Xia, University of Birmingham
D-RES: Provision of distributed grid resilience using EVs during extreme weather events
Dr Desen Kirli, University of Edinburgh
FIRM: Flood resilience simulation on DAFNI
Professor Richard Dawson, Newcastle University
ClimaTracks: Forecasting resilience of railway network under propagating uncertainty
Dr Giuliano Punzo, University of Sheffield
Room 2:
SCQUAIR: Simulating the Resilience of Transport Infrastructures Using QUANT
Dr Richard Milton, UCL
SOFRAMODE: Sewer Overflow Flood Risk Analysis MOdel DAFNI Enabled
Dr Vassilis Glenis, Newcastle University
BRINES: Building Risk-Informed redundancy for Net-zero Energy Systems
Dr Hannah Bloomfield, Newcastle University
Pywr-WREW: Water Resources model for England and Wales built in Python water resources simulation system
Dr Anna Murgatroyd, Newcastle University
Room 1:
RIWS: Resilience scenarios for integrated water systems
Dr Ana Mijic, Imperial College London
ForNet: DAFNI FORecasting Services for Energy NETworks
Professor Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Durham University
NIRD: Building systemic resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks at the national scale
Dr Raghav Pant, University of Oxford
Room 2:
USARIS: Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis for resilient infrastructure systems
Saskia Salwey, University of Bristol
IMPACT: IMproving flood-disruPted road networks resilience with dynAmic people-Centric digital Twins
Dr Qiuchen Lu, UCL
MARS: Flight Diversion Modelling for the UK Aviation System
Dr Fabian Steinmann, Cranfield University
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