Chronological Overview

No. Year Speaker Title
1 1987 Nicholas Ambraseys Engineering Seismology
2 1989 George Housner Coping With Natural Disasters
3 1991 Geoffrey Warburton Reduction of Vibrations
4 1993 Tom Paulay Simplicity and Confidence in Seismic Design
5 1995 Bruce Bolt From Earthquake Acceleration to Seismic Displacement
6 1997 Roy Severn Structural Response Prediction using Experimental Data
7 1999 Cinna Lomnitz The Road to Total Earthquake Safety
8 2001 James Jackson Living With Earthquakes: Know Your Faults
9 2003 Nigel Priestley Revisiting Myths and Fallacies in Earthquake Engineering
10 2005 W.D. Liam Finn A Study of Piles During Earthquakes: Issues of Design and Analysis
11 2007 Robin Spence Saving Lives in Earthquakes: Successes and Failures in Seismic Protection from 1960
12 2009 Roger Bilham The Seismic Future of Cities
13 2011 Lloyd Cluff The Practice of Earthquake Geology: Career-Changing Events and Life Stories
14 2013 Roger Musson A History of British Seismology(1)
15 2015 Sudhir Jain Earthquake Safety in India: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
16 2017 Edmund Booth Dealing with Earthquakes: Earthquake Engineering as if People Mattered
17 2022 Julian J. Bommer Earthquake Hazard and Risk Analysis for Natural and Induced Seismicity: Towards Objective Assessments in the Face of Uncertainty(2)
18 2023 Alain Pecker Interrelationships between Practice, Standardisation and Innovation in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (1)
19 2025 Michele Calvi Risk management and rehousing of people displaced by earthquake disasters

(1) A recording of the lecture is also available; see the list of recordings.

(2) A recording of the lecture is available on Youtube at this link