TECHNICAL TOURS (Thursday, October 6)
Tour 1
– Niagara Region Geotechnical Highlights
Tour 2
– Metro Toronto Geotechnical Highlights
SOCIAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Opening Icebreaker/Trade Show Reception
Local Colour Night in support of the Canadian Foundation for
Geotechnique at the ROM
Gala Awards Banquet on October 4
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Canadian Geotechnical Conference and
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Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics &
Geotechnical Engineering
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conférence géotechnique canadienne et
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conférence panaméricaine sur la mécanique
des sols & l’ingénierie géotechnique
October 2-6 octobre 2011, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2011 PAN-AM CGS CONFERENCE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS WILL INCLUDE:
R M Hardy Address presented by Dr. K Y Lo (University of Western Ontario)
Casagrande Lecture by Dr. Kerry Rowe (Queen’s University)
750+ delegates and more than 400 technical and special presentations over three days!
Local Colour Night at the Royal Ontario Museum and the 4
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annual CGS Gala Awards Banquet
The conference will be held at the Sheraton Centre
Toronto in downtown Toronto, Ontario.
Please see the conference web site at
for detailed conference information and to register online.
Online delegate registration is now available – be sure to register early to take
advantage of advance pricing discounts!
Technical Themes
• Retaining walls
• Ground improvement/
remediation
• Geoengineering for
development & education
• Geoenvironmental engineering
• Climate change & geohazards
• Mining & rock mechanics
• Buried structures &
subsurface systems
• Behaviour of unsaturated soils
• Earthquake engineering
& geophysics
• Geotechnics for energy
exploitation
• Laboratory testing/
In situ testing
• Shallow foundations
• Deep foundations
• Embankments and dams
• Hydrogeology and
seepage
• Transportation geotechnics
• Permafrost engineering
• Mine waste disposal
• Landslides
• Probability and
reliability-based
design
Join us in Toronto this October
2011 Pan-Am CGS
Geotechnical Conference
Be sure to visit us in Toronto this October when CGS will join with
ISSMGE to host the 2011 Pan-Am CGS Geotechnical Conference.
The Technical Committee has accepted over 800 abstracts and is on
track to be the largest CGS conference ever.
“Geo-Innovation Addressing Global Challenges” is the theme
of this integrated conference. In addition, the 5
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Pan-American
Conference on Teaching and Learning of Geotechnical Engineering
will be held on Sunday, October 2, 2011 and will explore teaching
and learning methods, as well as the implementation of industrial
practice sessions into the classroom.
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