Speakers wanted! If you would like to speak at a Geo-Institute meeting, please contact Stacey Tucker.
Upcoming Meetings:
- December 3, 2009 - NGI
TBA
Past Meetings:
- November 4, 2009 - Earl Doyle
Pile Design for Tension Leg Platforms
5:00PM CE203
- September 23, 2009 - Joint Meeting with ASCE
Wilber Wang, Aviles Engineering Corporation
Projects and Experiences at AEC
6:05PM CE110
- April 28, 2009 - Alan Young, GEMS
Technical Benefits of an Integrated Geoscience-Geotechnical Study
5:30PM CE222
- April 22, 2009 - Victor Taboada, Fugro GeoConsulting, Inc.
Seismic Response of Deepwater Clayey Soils
6:00PM CE203
- March 5, 2009 - Dr. Marcelo Sanchez, Senior Lecturer, Strathclyde University
Analysis of Coupled Problems in Geo-Engineering
4:00-5:00PM Room CE 104
- March 4, 2009 - J. Alberto Ortega, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Microporomechanics Blueprint of Shale: From Nanoidentation to Macroscopic Velocity Predictions
4:00-5:00PM Room CE 104
- February 24, 2009 - Pengcheng Fu, University of California, Davis
Micromechanical Methods for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
2:45-3:45PM Room CE 104
- February 5, 2009 - Chloe Arson, C.Eng., MSc., University of Paris-Est, Navier Research Unity, France
Thermo-hydro-mechanical Modelling of Damage in Unsaturated Porous Geomaterials
4:00PM Room CE 104
- April 8, 2008 - Grant Wilcox, P.E., C.E.G., California DOT
Devil's Slide Landslide
4:00PM Room CE/TTI 217
- February 8, 2008 - Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, University of California, Berkeley
Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability of Levees in Select California Regions
3:30-4:30PM Room CE/TTI 702
- October 4, 2007 - Dr. William Likos, University of Missouri - Columbia
Expansive Clay Behavior from Nano through Macro
3:00PM Room CE 104
- March 9, 2007 - Jeff Hill, P.E., Hayward Baker
Recent Developments in Ground Modification
10:30AM Room CE-TTI 217
- March 8, 2007 - Nisha Mehta, Director, Dimensional Soluations
Advanced Software for Foundation Design
2:30PM Room CE 203
- February 6, 2007 - Ed Ulrich
The Texas Medical Center's Tallest Building: Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza
12:45-2:00PM Room CE 203
- November 16, 2006 - Dual Speaker Meeting
Adda Athanasopoulos, UC Berkeley
New Orleans Levee Investigation
Dimitris Zekkos, GeoSyntec Consultants
Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste
3:30PM Room CE 203
- November 1, 2006 - Ed Clukey and Eric Liedtke
Overview of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering at BP
1:00-2:30PM Room CE 137
- October 24, 2006 - Dennis Boehm, P.E, Hayward Baker, Inc.
Dry Soil Mixing - A Newly Imported Technology
2:30-4:00PM Room CE-TTI 217
- October 10, 2006 - Art Pangelly, Vice President, Hayward Baker, Inc.
Injection Systems for Soft Soil Treatment
2:00-3:00PM Room CE-TTI 271
- October 9, 2006 - Liz Smith, P.E, Terracon
Lessons from Failures on US70
Part 1: Case of the Rotating RSS
4:00PM Room CE 222
- October 5, 2006 - Tom Posey, Fugro Consultants LP
Predicted versus Actual: Axial Pile Capacities for Driven Concrete Piles at LNG Facility
3:30PM Room CE-TTI 217
- September 21, 2006 - Dr. C. Vipulanandan, University of Houston
Grouting Materials and Applications in Geotechnical Engineering
2:30-3:30PM CE/TTI 217
- November 17, 2005 - Dr. Stephen Wright, President of Geo-Institute
Important Details of Slope Stability Analyses
5:00PM CE104
- September 21, 2005 - Dr. J. Tanner Blackburn
Soil and Structure Response to Deep Excavations in Urban Environments
5:30PM CE219
- March 2005 - Dan Rich
Forensic Civil Engineering: Dead Buildings, Not Bodies
- November 2004 - Dr. Dionel E. Aviles, President, Aviles Engineering Corporation
Design of the Reliant Stadium Foundation
- October 2004 - Namgyu Park
Establish Guidance for Soil Properties-Base Prediction of Meander Migration Rate
- September 2004 - Keoyoung Rhee
New Ways of Compaction Control
- April 2004 - Dr. Rodolfo Sancio
Liquefaction in Adapazari Earthquake
- February 2004 - Xiong Zhang
Expansive Soils