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GENG840
GeoEngineering Seminar Course Schedule
Our
seminar series is sponsored by:
Winter
2007 (still under construction)
| Date |
Time |
Presenter/Subject |
Location |
| Jan
17 |
5:00-6:30PM |
David
Woeller, ConeTec, "Application
of the Cone Penetration Test to Soft Ground Tunnelling" |
M-C D216 |
| Jan
24 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Jim
Cassie, MSc, P.Eng, BGC
Engineering, "'Natural'
Remediation approach for the discovery mine borrow pit - the final
chapter" |
M-C D216 |
| Jan
31 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Student
Presentations:
1. Roya Davoodi Bilesavar
2. Mohamed El-Taher |
M-C
D216 |
| Feb
7 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Patrick
Selvadurai, McGill, "Mechanics
of Damage-Susceptible Poroelastic Media" and "Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical
Aspects in Fluid-Saturated Geomaterials" |
M-C
D216 |
| Feb
14 |
5:00-6:30PM |
No
seminar |
M-C
D216 |
| Feb
21 |
5:00-6:30PM
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Student
Presentations:
1.
Yan Yu
2. Azadeh Hoor
3. Dave Elwood |
M-C
D216 |
| Feb
28 |
5:30-8:30PM |
CGS
Competition
Reception, followed by presentations. |
Ban
Righ Hall, Fireside Room |
| March
7 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Serge
Leroueil, Université
Laval, "Viscosity of
Natural Clays and Practical Implications" |
M-C
D216 |
| March
14 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Dr.
Kahraman Ünlü, Middle
East Technical University (METU) "Solid
Waste Management in Turkey: Current Status and Recent Developments" |
M-C
D216 |
| March
21 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Student
Presentations:
1. Matt Lato
2. Bing Quan Huang
3. Massoumeh
Saiyar Sarai
|
M-C
D216 |
| March
28 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Jim
Theriault, P.Eng., Gartner Lee,
"Dealing with Canada's Mining Legacy: Rehabilitating Historic
Mining Hazards on Abandonded Mining Properties" |
M-C
D216 |
| April
4 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Ryan
Philips, C-CORE, St.John's, NL, "Pipeline
engineering: the role of modelling" |
M-C
D216 |
| April
11 |
5:00-6:30PM |
Student
Presentations
1. Chalermpol Taechakumthorn
2. Michael Brown
|
M-C
D216 |
| April
18 |
Cancelled,
will be rescheduled Fall 2007 |
Don
J. DeGroot, Sc.D., P.E., Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts
|
M-C
D216 |
| May 22 |
2:00-3:00PM |
Dr. Mark Talesnick, Associate Professor at Technion in Haifa Israel, " Measuring soil pressure: Some initial research trials" |
Ellis 327 |
| June 12 |
4:00-5:00PM |
Bob Gilbert, University of Texas, "Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans Levees: An Engineering Disaster, What went wrong and why" |
Ellis 327 |
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