Proposals (directly related to theme and topics of the conference) for conducting workshops, short courses and discussions are welcome and should be submitted to: Prof. D N Singh (dns@civil.iitb.ac.in)
Proposed Workshops/Short courses
Engineering Characteristics of Methane-hydrate and Methane-hydrate bearing sediments
(Dr. Koji Yamamoto, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation Methane Hydrate Research Project Team & Petroleum Eng. Res. Team, yamamoto-koji@jogmec.go.jp)
Trenchless Technology
Workshop
(Dr. Mark Knight PhD, P. Eng., Civil Engineering Department at the
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON,
maknight@uwaterloo.ca and Dr. Dec Downey, Principal of Jason Consultants
& Vice Chairman of the International Society of Trenchless Technology,
dec.downey@jasonconsult.com)
Computer Methods with Realistic
Constitutive Models for Geotechnical Applications
(Dr. Chandra S. Desai, Regents’ Professor,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA,
csdesai@engr.arizona.edu, Dr. K.
Rajagopal, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India,
gopalkr@iitm.ac.in, Dr. K. G. Sharma,
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India,
kgsharma@civil.iitd.ernet.in)
Artificial
Intelligence and Its Applications in the Petroleum Industry: Short
Course with Hands-On Applications on Advanced AI Techniques
(Dr. Emad Ahmed El-Sebakhy,
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals,
sebakhy@kfupm.edu.sa & eae6@cornell.edu,
and Dr. Abdul-Azeez Abdulraheem,
Central of Petroleum and Minerals, King Fahd University of Petroleum& Minerals
aazeez@kfupm.edu.sa )
FLAC3D Training Course
(Registration)
Edward Dzik — Itasca Consulting
Group, Minneapolis, USA.
Dr. Dzik is a geotechnical engineer with a background in computational
geomechanics. He has over 20 years of experience developing commercial and
custom software for use in the mining and geotechnical industries and is a
Registered Professional Engineer in Alberta, Canada.
Jay Aglawe— Jay Aglawe and Associates, Nagpur, India.
jay_aglawe@yahoo.co.in
Dr. Jay Aglawe is a mining engineer with a background in stress analysis applied
to various rock engineering problems in mining and hydroelectric projects. He is
working as Itasca Agent for India and is looking after marketing, sales, and
training on Itasca software in India.
GROUND IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR GEOTECHNICAL & GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
Kamalesh Kumar (kamalesh@bits-pilani.ac.in, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India).
'MUSE' WORKSHOP: Benchmarking experimental techniques, and constitutive and numerical models in unsaturated soil mechanics
Alessandro Tarantino (alessandro.tarantino@ing.unitn.it, Università di Trento, Italy), Domenico Gallipoli (gallipoli@civil.gla.ac.uk, University of Glasgow, UK), Jean Vaunat (jean.vaunat@upc.edu, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), Berhouz Gatmiri (gatmiri@cermes.enpc.fr, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France).
Advances in
Probabilistic Slope Stability Analysis and Coupled Climatic 1D/2D/3D Finite
Element Seepage Modeling
Dr. Murray Fredlund
(murray@soilvision.com,
President/CEO, SoilVision Systems Ltd.) and Dr. Del Fredlund (Senior
Geotechnical Engineering Specialist, Golder Associates).
Realistic Failure Process Analysis
Dr. Chunan TANG (catang@mechsoft.cn,
Center for Rock
Instability and Seismicity Research, Dalian University of Technology,