A felicitation ceremony of Senior Professor Priyan Dias was held on 30th September 2021, the day of his retirement as a hybrid event launched from the boardroom of Faculty of Graduate Studies at University of Moratuwa. The event was organized by the Department of Civil Engineering to celebrate his 40+ years of long and distinguished service rendered to the department and the university.
The highlight of the event was the farewell lecture by Senior Professor Dias aptly titled “On Connectivity” where he traced the linkages of the many aspects of his research. These included truss and road connectivity; system dynamics for concrete durability; neural networks for pattern recognition; structuring and interactions among various types of connected entities (e.g. in vulnerability, sustainability and degradation); socio-technical linkages (e.g. in resilience); and analogical transposition.
His former research students paid tribute to their research mentor by presenting him a volume of selected papers previously published by them in reputed journals.
