Talk | preetish kakoty

Delivered a talk on "Peeling the Layers of Earthquake Risk - Hazards, Exposure, Vulnerability, and Tolerability".

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I delivered a presentation titled “Peeling the Layers of Earthquake Risk: Hazards, Exposure, Vulnerability, and Tolerability” at IIT Bombay and IISc Bangalore during October, 2025. The presentation focused on how risk models often serve as heiristics to guide risk–reduction policy decisions, which makes it especially critical that risk modelers play a larger role in interpreting and communicating results. That responsibility includes clearly explaining model limitations and the challenges of keeping models up to date as knowledge evolves. Ultimately, what constitutes an acceptable or tolerable level of risk is a personal choice that differs for each stakeholder.

The presentation included material that is part of Earthquake Risk Tolerance for Building Codes funded by Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake.

Delivered a talk virtually in the Department of Civi and Environmental Engineering at the Universidad del Bio Bio in Chile

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I delivered a talk virtually titled “The Many Faces of Performance Based Earthquake Engineering” during a class seminar for Professor Marco Gallegos at the Departmento De Ingeneria Civil y Ambiental at the Universidad del Bio Bio in Chile.

Preetish Kakoty delivered a talk in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I delivered a talk titled “Seismic Risk Models and Their Role in Shaping Risk Reduction Policies” during a department seminar at the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.