Conference Agenda

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

 
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