The Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2019 (EMI 2019) was held on the campus of the California Institute of Technology from June 18 to June 21, 2019. This is a joint conference between the Engineering Mechanics Institute and the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The 2019 EMI conference staid true to its long-standing tradition as the prime venue for disseminating the most recent progress in Engineering Mechanics as the core discipline of science-enabled Civil Engineering understood in the broadest sense.

In this version of the EMI conference, the following two papers co-authored by professor Astroza were presented:

1. “Nonlinear finite element model updating of partially identifiable models using Bayesian filtering” by Mukesh Ramancha (UC San Diego), Ramin Madarshahian (Anadarko Petroleum Co.), Rodrigo Astroza (UAndes), and Joel P. Conte (UC San Diego).

2. “Adaptive UKF for nonlinear model calibration” by Mingming Song (Tufts University), Rodrigo Astroza (UAndes), Hamed Ebrahimian (SC Solutions), Babak Moaveni (Tufts University), and Costas Papadimitriou (University of Thessaly).