Georgios BALTZOPOULOS and Eugenio CHIOCCARELLI are organizing a mini-symposium within the 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP13) that will take place in Seoul from the 26th to the 30th of May 2019. The session is titled Advanced strategies for seismic hazard assessment and seismic input characterization for engineering structures. The deadline for the abstract submissions to the organized sessions and mini-symposia is April 30th, 2018. Colleagues interested in the topic are cordially invited to submit their contribution to the mini-symposium .