Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Sunday, 17/Sept/2023
9:00am - 12:30pmShort Course Shukla 1: Introduction to Geosynthetic Engineering
Location: Room A
Speaker: Sanjay Kumar Shukla
9:00am - 12:30pmShort Course Bathurst: Geosynthetic Reinforced Wall Structures including Seismic Aspects
Location: Room B
Speaker: Richard Bathurst
9:00am - 12:30pmShort Course Rowe: Geomembranes and composite liners in landfills and mining: Moving forward
Location: Room C
Speaker: Kerry Rowe
9:00am - 5:30pmRegistration 1
1:30pm - 5:00pmShort Course Shukla 2: Introduction to Geosynthetic Engineering
Location: Room A
Speaker: Sanjay Kumar Shukla
1:30pm - 5:00pmShort Course Christopher: Filtration and Drainage in Geosynthetic Engineering: Principles, Practices, and Sustainability
Location: Room B
Speaker: Barry R. Christopher
1:30pm - 5:00pmShort Course Bouazza: Geosynthetic Clay Liners: from Insights to Outsights
Location: Room C
Speaker: A. Malek Bouazza
6:00pm - 8:30pmWelcome Concert & Reception
Location: Plenary Room
Date: Monday, 18/Sept/2023
8:00amRegistration 2
8:45am - 9:30amOpening Ceremony
Location: Plenary Room
9:30am - 10:30amGiroud Lecture: Geotextile filters: From idealization to real behaviour
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: JEAN PIERRE GOURC
Lecturer: Ennio Marques Palmeira
10:30am - 11:00amIGS Foundation-Exhibition Open
11:00am - 11:30amCoffee Break 1
11:30am - 1:00pmTS S01: Sustainability with Geosynthetics
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: George Robert Koerner
Session Chair: Kasia Zamara
11:30am - 1:00pmTS S02: Filtration and Drainage
Location: Room A
Session Chair: Adam Bezuijen
Session Chair: Eric Blond
11:30am - 1:00pmTS S03: Durability
Location: Room B
Session Chair: Samuel Allen
Session Chair: Anne-Laure Backes
11:30am - 1:00pmTS S04: Innovative Materials and Technologies
Location: Room C
Session Chair: Jacek Kawalec
Session Chair: EDOARDO ZANNONI
1:00pm - 2:00pmLunch 1
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S05: Reinforced Walls and Slopes
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Ben Adam Leshchinsky
Session Chair: Marilene Pisano
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S06: Geosynthetics Properties and Testing
Location: Room A
Session Chair: Kazem Fakharian
Session Chair: Maria Graça Lopes
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S07: Unpaved and Paved Roads, Railways and other Transportation Applications
Location: Room B
Session Chair: Margarida Pinho-Lopes
Session Chair: Jiro Kuwano
4:00pm - 4:30pmCoffee Break 2
4:30pm - 6:30pmTS S08: Filtraton and Drainage-Hydraulic applications: Canals, Reservoirs an Dams
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Daniele Cazzuffi
Session Chair: Graham Fairhead
4:30pm - 6:30pmTS S09: Soil-Geosynthetic Interaction
Location: Room A
Session Chair: Jonathan Fannin
Session Chair: Chungsik Yoo
4:30pm - 6:30pmTS S10: Innovative Materials
Location: Room B
Session Chair: Abdelmalek Bouazza
Session Chair: Helmut Zanzinger
7:00pm - 10:00pmIGS Corporate event
only upon IGS invitation
Date: Tuesday, 19/Sept/2023
8:00amRegistration 3
8:00am - 8:45amIGS Event: IGS Diversity Breakfast
Location: Room C
8:45am - 9:30amBathurst Lecture: Research and practice on geosynthetic MSE walls: past, present and future
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Richard J Bathurst
Lecturer: Yoshihisa Miyata
9:30am - 9:45amLifetime Achievement: Jamiolkowski Lifetime Achievement Medal
Location: Plenary Room
9:45am - 10:30amKeynote Lecture 1: The Road to Resilience: Advanced Soil-Geosynthetic Interface Characterization and Its Role in Reinforcing Soil Structures for Sustainability
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Ennio Marques Palmeira
Lecturer: Giuseppe Cardile
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break 3
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S11: TC Reinforcement Special Session on "Design methods for basal reinforcement of emankments"
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Ivan P. Damians
Session Chair: PIETRO RIMOLDI
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S12: Reinforced Walls and Slopes
Location: Room A
Session Chair: Chaido Doulala-Rigby
Session Chair: ABDELAZIZ KHATTARI
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S13: Case Histories
Location: Room B
Session Chair: John Walter Cowland
Session Chair: Delma de Mattos Vidal
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S14: Design Approaches and other Applications
Location: Room C
Session Chair: Ömer Bilgin
Session Chair: Russell Jones
1:00pm - 2:00pmLunch 2
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S15: Soil-Geosynthetic Interaction
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Patricia Guerra-Escobar
Session Chair: NICOLA MORACI
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S16: Sustainability with Geosyntetics
Location: Room A
Session Chair: Philippe Delmas
Session Chair: Francesco Fontana
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S17: Unpaved and Paved Roads, Railways and other Transporation Applications
Location: Room B
Session Chair: Piergiorgio Recalcati
Session Chair: Amir Shahkolahi
4:00pm - 4:30pmCoffee Break 4
4:30pm - 6:30pmTS S18: Basal Reinforced Embankments, GEC, Piles and Shallow Foundations
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Claudio di Prisco
Session Chair: Patrick Naughton
4:30pm - 6:30pmTS S19: Geosynthetics Properties and Testing
Location: Room A
Session Chair: Han Yong Jeon
Session Chair: Jorge Zornberg
4:30pm - 6:30pmTS S20: Unpaved and Paved Roads, Railways and other Transportation Applications
Location: Room B
Session Chair: Muthukumar Mayakrishnan
Session Chair: Erol Tutumluer
4:30pm - 6:30pmCSS: Special Session: Development and current state of the geosynthetic industry in China
Location: Room C
Session Chair: Jie Han
Session Chair: Huabei Liu
7:00pm - 10:00pmSpecial Event: Football match
Date: Wednesday, 20/Sept/2023
8:00amRegistration 4
8:45am - 9:30amRowe Lecture: Selection of long-term shear strength parameters for geosynthetic interfaces
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Kerry Rowe
Lecturer: Richard Thiel
9:30am - 9:45amBest paper award: GI and G&G Best Paper Award
Location: Plenary Room
9:45am - 10:30amKeynote Lecture 2: Sustainable Development: UK Perspective on the Role of Geosynthetics
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: NATHALIE TOUZE
Lecturer: Russell Jones
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break 5
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S21: Young Member Contest
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: David Hercules Marx
Session Chair: Fernanda Bessa Ferreira
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S22: Reinforced Walls and Slopes
Location: Room A
Session Chair: Radoslaw L Michalowski
Session Chair: Arnstein Watn
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S23: Basal Reinforced Embankments, GEC, Piles and Shallow Foundations
Location: Room B
Session Chair: Oliver Detert
Session Chair: Suzanne J.M. van Eekelen
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S24: Design Approaches and other Applications
Location: Room C
Session Chair: RICHARD THIEL
Session Chair: Jie Han
1:00pm - 2:00pmLunch 3
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S25: TC Barriers Special Session
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Jonathan Richard Shamrock
Session Chair: Boyd Ramsey
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S26: Sustainability with Geosynthetics
Location: Room A
Session Chair: Giuseppe Cardile
Session Chair: Véronique HEILI
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S27: Landfills and Remediation of Contaminated Sites
Location: Room B
Session Chair: Andrea Dominijanni
Session Chair: Charles Shackelford
2:00pm - 4:00pmCSC: Corporate Case Study Competition
Location: Room C
Session Chair: Francesco Fontana
4:00pm - 4:30pmCoffee Break 6
4:30pm - 6:10pmIGS Assembly-IGS Awards
6:10pm - 6:40pmYoung Member Winner
Location: Plenary Room
8:00pm - 11:00pmGala Dinner
Date: Thursday, 21/Sept/2023
8:00amRegistration 5
9:00am - 9:45amKeynote Lecture 3: Insight towards the stability of complex geosynthetic reinforced soil structures
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Giovanni Biondi
Lecturer: Ben Adam Leshchinsky
9:45am - 10:30amKeynote Lecture 4: Geosynthetic Reinforced Foundation
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Yoshihisa Miyata
Lecturer: Seyed Naser Moghaddas Tafreshi
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break 7
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S28: Landfill and Remediation of Contaminated Sites
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Evelina Fratalocchi
Session Chair: Soon Hoe Chew
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S29: Filtration and Drainage - Hydraulic Applications: Canals, Reservoirs and Dams
Location: Room A
Session Chair: Maria Clorinda Mandaglio
Session Chair: Barry Christopher
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S30: Seismic Design with Geosynthetics
Location: Room B
Session Chair: Erol Guler
Session Chair: Seyed Naser Moghaddas Tafreshi
11:00am - 1:00pmTS S31: Case Histories
Location: Room C
Session Chair: Giulia Lugli
Session Chair: Nicolas Freitag
1:00pm - 2:00pmLunch 4
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S32: Case Histories
Location: Plenary Room
Session Chair: Sabatino Cuomo
Session Chair: Chao Xu
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S33: Durability and Long Term Performance
Location: Room A
Session Chair: Domenico Gioffre'
Session Chair: Sanjay Kumar Shukla
2:00pm - 4:00pmTS S34: Geosynthetics Properties and Testing
Location: Room B
Session Chair: Peter Stuart Atchison
Session Chair: Warren Peter Hornsey
4:00pm - 5:00pmClosing Ceremony
Location: Plenary Room