Geo-Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Please join us for an exceptional set of lectures, a wonderful social and poster session, and a dinner that celebrates the GeoEngineering Profession in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Lecture Series will be held in the Sibley Auditorium. The Hosted Social and Dinner will be held at the Hearst Memorial Mining Building on the UC Berkeley campus.

PRESENTATIONS

"Regional Ergodic Site Response for Seismic Hazard Applications", Jonathan Stewart, Ph.D. Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

"Computational Imaging for Civil Engineering Deformation Analysis", Robert Kayen, Ph.D. Research Civil Engineer with US Geological Survey; Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley and UCLA

"Probabilistic Methods in Liquefaction Engineering", Robb Moss, Ph.D. Professor at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

"Evaluation of Gravelly Soil Liquefaction through Laboratory and Field Testing" Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Michigan

"A Tale of Two Mega Engineering Projects: The Izmit Bay Bridge and The Istanbul-Marmaray Tunnel" Onder Cetin, Ph.D. Professor Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

"Protection of Adjacent Buildings During Deep Excavation", C.Y. Ou, Ph.D., Chair Professor of the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

"Evaluation of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Hazard with Application to Dams", Raymond Seed, Ph.D. Professor at University of California, Berkeley (and doctoral research advisor for all of the other speakers!)