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	Participation at the Dedicated Session on Resilience and Risk Assessment for Critical Infrastructures, Joint Research Center (JRC) Ispra, 25–26 April 2012. "Understanding Complexity and Interdependency: A Prerequisite to Increase Resilience", by Wolfgang Kröger.

	Participation at the Customer Advisory Board meeting of Zurich Insurance Zurich Development Center, 20 April 2012. "Understanding Complexity and Integrating Risks: Supporting the Design of Resilient Systems", by Wolfgang Kröger.

	First ETH Risk Center workshop "New views on extreme events: Coupled Networks, Dragon Kings and Explosive Percolation" Date of workshop: Oct. 25-26, 2012 Committee: Prof. Hans Herrmann (responsible), Prof. Dirk Helbing, Prof. Didier Sornette Local organizer: Vitor Hugo Louzada, <louzada@ifb.baug.ethz.ch> >> Read more...

	Prof. Ryan Murphy has been elected as a new member in our Center. Congratulations!

	Our first Partnership Council meeting took place on December 2, 2011. List of Participants: Partners AXA: Dr. Andreas Kull, Chief Risk Officer AXA Winterthur KPMG: Daniel Senn, Head of Financial Services Swisselectric: Dr. Lukas Gubler, Chief Risk Officer EGL AG Swiss Re: Dr. Stephan Schreckenberg, Head University Relations Zurich Financial Services: Dr. Benno Keller, Head Research & Policy Development ETH Zürich Prof. Hans Rudolf Heinimann, Chair ETH RC Steering Committee Prof. Wolfgang Kröger (Chair), Executive Director ETH RC Members ETH RC: Prof. Antoine Bommier, Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman, Prof. Hans Gersbach, Prof. Dirk Helbing Guest: Prof. Wanda Mimra, Professorship Risk and Insurance Economics Dr. Urs Zuber, Industrial Relationship Manager Dr. Donald Tillman, Exec. Director ETH Zürich Foundation

	Our Singapore-ETH Center (SEC) research proposal on "Future Resilient Systems" was delivered to the Singapore NRF on November 28, 2011. It includes nine modules, namely: Prof. Cederman: Ethnonationalism in Space and Time: Analyzing the Risk of Internal Conflict in Southeast Asia Prof. Embrechts: Stochastic Methods for Quantitative Risk Management Prof. Gersbach: Robust Policies for Money and Banking Prof. Heinimann: Addressing Interdependencies among Critical Infrastructures from a Regional Perspective Prof. Hertig: Regulating and Supervising Financial Risk-Taking Dr. Hirschberg (PSI): Comparative Risk Assessment and New Developments in Probabilistic Risk Assessment Prof. Murphy: Human Decision Making in Risky, Dynamic and Complex Environments Prof. Schubert: Making Energy Demand More Sustainable and Robust Prof. Sornette: Dynamical Diagnostics for Resilient Finance and Banking >> Read more...

	The Risk Center Seminar Series "Complex Socio-Economic Systems and Integrative Risk Management" is taking place every Tuesday, 17:15 - 18:45, HG 1.2, starting Sept. 20. Watch the talks here!

	The Opening Ceremony of the ETH Risk Center took place during the International Workshop "Coping with Crises in Socio-Economic Systems" (CCSS) on the 23rd of June, 2011. Program Room: CAB G56 08.30 – 09.30: Media Breakfast • Prof. Dr. Ralph Eichler, President ETH Zürich • Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing, Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation • Prof. Dr. Hans Rudolf Heinimann, Chair of Steering Committee „ETH Risk Center“ • Dr. Jakob Bär, Member of the Board of Directors, Swiss Re • Dr. Dieter Wemmer, CFO Zurich Financial Services Group Room: CAB G11 09.45 - 09.55: Prof. Dr. Ralph Eichler 09.55 - 10.05: Prof. Dr. Hans Rudolf Heinimann 10.05 - 10.20: Prof. Dr. Antoine Bommier 10.20 - 10.35: Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing 10.35 - 11.15: Apero The Opening Ceremony presentations can be found here: [.PDF 6.5MB]

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