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GENG840
GeoEngineering Seminar Course Schedule
Our
seminar series is sponsored by Gartner Lee Ltd
Fall
2006
!!!!ATTENTION!!!
All NEW Graduate students are required to take the following course:
CHEM
801
September 27, October 4 and 11
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Room CHE117
Instructor: Rick Boswell.
| Date |
Time |
Presenter/Subject |
Location |
| Sept
20 |
5:00-6:00PM
| Greg
Siemens, assistant professor Civil Engineering RMC, "Examination
of Boundary Condition Influence on Hydraulic-Mechanical Behaviour
of an Unsaturated Swelling Soil" |
Kingston
208 |
| 6:00
- 7:00 |
BBQ |
| Sept
27 |
5:00-6:30PM |
No
seminar |
|
| Oct
4 |
|
CGS
Vancouver Conference |
|
| Oct
11 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Pete
Quinn M.Eng., P.Eng., Civil Engineering, Queen's University, Landslide
Hazard in Sensitive Clays in Eastern Canada |
Kingston
208 |
| Oct
18 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Richard Brachman P.Eng., Associate Professor, Civil Engineering,
Queen's University, 2006 Canadian
Geotechnical Colloquium: Physical response of landfill geosynthetics |
Kingston
208
|
| Oct
25 |
5:30-6:30PM
|
Dr.
Paul Simms, Assistant Professor, Carleton University, "Properties
of Thickened Mine Tailings" |
Kingston
208
|
| Nov
1 |
5:00-6:30PM
|
Dr.
K.J. Reimer, Director Environmental Sciences Group, RMC, "Examples
from the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line Cleanup Project"
and
Dr.
R.J. Bathurst, Professor GeoEngineering Centre, "A
Geocomposite Barrier for Hydrocarbon Containment in the Arctic" |
Kingston
208
|
| Friday,
Nov 3 |
2:00-3:00
PM |
Lukas
Arenson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Geotechnical Centre, University of
Alberta, "Ice lens formation
during one-dimensional freezing of non-saline and saline soils"
|
Ellis
212 |
| Nov
8 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Kerry
Rowe, Civil Engineering Queen's University, "Design
Implications from the Almere, Sackville, Bloomington and Hubrey
Road Reinforced Embankments"
|
Kingston
208 |
Friday,
Nov 17 |
10:00-11:30
am |
Dennis
Becker, Golder Associates, AB, "Slope
Stabilization of a section of the Welland Canal" |
Watson
217 |
| Nov
22 |
5:00-6:30PM |
No
seminar |
Kingston
208 |
| Nov
29 |
12:00
Noon |
First
Local CGS meeting, Darwyn Sproule, Ministry of Transportation,
Ontario, “The Diaphragm Wall:
Ontario's Largest "Reverse Bathtub" |
Kingston
Brewing Co.
34 Clarence St, Kingston downtown |
| Dec
6 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Steve
Usher, Gartner Lee,
Environmental Consequences of Engineering
Actions: the 16th Avenue Trunk Sewer Example, Markham, Ontario.
|
Kingston
208 |
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Tuesday
Dec 19 |
11:00-12:30PM |
Dr
David N Chapman
BSc(Hons), DIS, PhD, CEng, MICE, ILTM
Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Birmingham,
UK, "Tunnels, Ground Movements
and Buried Pipes" |
M-C
E229 |
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