RICHARDSON, Texas (April 21, 2008)—The National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided an additional award of $30,000 to the International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis (ICDRiA) at The UT Dallas School of Management in support of international collaboration on risk analysis research related to the effects of vibration on mechanical structures.
The funding is matched by OTKA, the Hungarian counterpart of NSF, through the U.S.-Hungarian Cooperative Research Program. During the summer of 2008, Hungarian scientists will visit UT Dallas to collaborate with ICDRiA researchers.
NSF provided original funding of $290,000 to Dr. Alain Bensoussan, director of ICDRiA and Dr. Janos Turi, professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UT Dallas.
