UPDATE: YAN WINS!!! Congratulations to Yan for winning one of the five best student paper awards at EARAM!  The letter from the award committee is below:

Your paper entitled ”Toward an Approach to Probabilistic Resilience Analysis of Networked Infrastructure” has been awarded the ”Graduate Student Best Paper Awards” in the 4th Asian Conference on Risk Assessment and Management 2009 which is held in Beijing Normal University of China.

Chairman of the conference Organising Committee: Prof. Peijun Shi (BNU), Prof. Akihiro Tokai (SRA-Japan), Prof. Dongchun Shin (KOSET-Korea), Prof. Chongfu Huang (RAC)

May 17-19, 2009, Beijing, China

My graduate student at Penn State, Yan Cao, is set to present a poster at the 2009 East Asian Conference on Risk Assessment and Management (EARAM 2009) in Beijing, China, sometime between 17-19 May 2009.  Her poster is below and can be downloaded here from Scribd:

Let’s wish Yan the best as she competes for one of five graduate student “Best Poster” awards (which is worth about $800). (This award would help compensate for her having to spend much of her “vacation” time working on her presentation).

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