Wednesday 18 April 2012

[pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster

 

Following are two groups that are working on probabilistic modeling of risks arising from avalanche and other natural hazards.

http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~adk/
http://www.era.bv.tum.de/index.php?id=5

One can download interesting presentations from their website, too. If one is interested in some of their wrok, please, leet me know.

Any way, it is time to start working on ''Risk-based decision making'' on engineering and natural systems.


Best Regards
Qamar Mahboob
(PhD student)
TU Dresden, Germany




Von: Syeda Umema Hani <umema_hani@yahoo.com>
An: "pakgrid@yahoogroups.com" <pakgrid@yahoogroups.com>; Usman Rafique <rafiqusman@hotmail.com>
Gesendet: 10:42 Mittwoch, 18.April 2012
Betreff: Re: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster

 
Nice email brother ! I hope our high fi universities could make some effort in utilizing their research work  in real life insahAllah.
 
With regards,

Syeda Umema Hani,
Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, www.ssuet.edu.pk,
PhD (Software Engineering) fellow, GSESIT, www.hamdard.edu.pk,
www.ssuet.edu.pk/~suhani, suhani@ssuet.edu.pk, ++92-21-111994994(STI department)

 
From: Usman Rafique <rafiqusman@hotmail.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 23:11
Subject: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster

 
I wonder what technologies could have been used to save lives of soldiers of Giari Sector in Siachin. How far our society and specially universities will have to go to get into the position to help the nation in the time of need?
 
For example there is a chip that uses nanotechnology to have sniffing power (meeting or even exceeding) to those of dogs and can be programmed for specialized ordors. Since dogs cannot sniff humans at such height of snow rubble and pin point exact locations of bodies, such chip could have been used at bore head to go inside snow for sniffing of human bodies. Similary some ground based sonar or radar waves could have been used.
 
This time is gone but how in future we can develop capacity (proactively) to take swift action to be able to help society in such citicial events? It is useless to expect national level stuff from private universities as they are busy counting cash, so all hope is from public sector universities that they come ahead and demonstrate their impact on society.
 
Regards,
Usman Rafique




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