In the interest of sharing the recent technological and state-of-the-art advancements in the areas of Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Improvement and Geosynthetic Engineering, and as a follow up to December 2007’s International Symposium, I am proud to invite you to this year’s International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics for Sustainable Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change including Global Warming. This conference features the following distinguished lectures:

KEYNOTE LECTURES

  • Prof. Pedro Seco e Pinto, President of ISSMGE, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
  • Prof. Madhira Madhav, VP Asia of ISSMGE, JNT University, Hyderabad, India
  • Prof. Dr. Georg Heerten, CEO, NAUE GmbH & Co KG, Germany
  • Prof. Dr. Kazuya Yasuhara, Department of Urban & Civil Eng., Ibaraki University, Japan
  • Prof. Buddhima Indraratna, Professor and Head, School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
  • Prof. Laloui Lyesse, Ph.D. Director of the Laboratory of Soil Mechanics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Prof. Jian Chu, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Prof. Absornsuda Siripong, Faculty of Science, Marine Science Department, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Prof. Song Yu Liu, Professor, Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

INVITED SPEAKERS

  • Prof. Dr. Jack Shui-Long Shen, Head of the Laboratory of Tunneling and Underground Space Technology, Deputy Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
  • Prof. San-Shyan Lin, Professor of Harbor and River Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
  • Dr. Yan-Jun Du, Professor, Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
  • Dr. Martin D. Liu, Faculty of Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
  • Dr. Lilia Austriaco, Professor and Dean, College of Engineering, Angeles University Foundation, Angeles City, Philippines
  • Mr. Tiru Kulkarni, Regional General Manager – Technical & Strategic Marketing, Maccaferri Asia, Malaysia

SPECIAL LECTURES

  • Dr. J.K. Patterson Edward, Head of Department & Director, Suganthi Devadason Marine Research Institute, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Mr. Gareth Hearn, Scott Wilson Groups, Hampshire, England

Additional details: more than 30 technical speakers will be part of the event. They are coming to the conference from more than 15 countries. A comprehensive technical exhibition will accompany the discussions.

The conference will incorporate a wide range of topics which are contributing greatly in assessing the risk associated with geohazards as well as their sustainable mitigation and adaptation strategies. Climate change is now accepted as main factor for heavy rains and strong storms causing more frequency of geohazard occurrences.

The conference will be held from 3 to 4 December 2009, in Sofitel Grand Centara, Bangkok, Thailand. It is jointly organized by the Asian Center for Soil Improvement and Geosynthetics (ACSIG), Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society (SEAGS), and International Geosynthetics Society – Thailand Chapter (IGS-Thailand), and is supported by the International Geosynthetics Society.

For further information, please access the conference website at http://www.set.ait.ac.th/acsig/Conference/.

Dr. Dennes T. Bergado is the conference chairman and chair of IGS Thailand, a chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society.

23 July 2009

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