08/10/2026
From Troy to Ithaca: Sailing hazards and time-history considerations
Greek heroes left Troy in ruin and set sail for home. Averaged across more than a thousand black ships, loss of life on the return was in the order of 1 to 2 per cent. For those who sailed with Ulysses, only one man in six hundred survived. An aggregate summary would report the first figure and discard the second.
Prof. Dimitrios Vamvatsikos of the National Technical University of Athens starts from this contrast to discuss why the sequence of events a structure experiences matters for structures in seismic areas.
Wednesday 14 October 2026, 18:00 Italian time (CEST)
Sala del Camino, Piazza della Vittoria 15, Pavia
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Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia
Fondazione Eucentre
Università degli studi di Pavia
GEM - Global Earthquake Model