Geotechnical News September 2011
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CGS NEWS
of local tours, workshops and short
courses.
Authors are invited to submit ab-
stracts of a maximum
400 words
through the conference web site (www.
CGS2012.ca) which will be launched
just prior to the 2011 Pan-AM CGS
conference in Toronto. The abstract can
be written either in English or French.
The deadline for abstract submission
is January 27, 2012
. Invitations for
submission of full papers will be sent
to authors whose abstracts are accepted
by the conference’s Technical Commit-
tee by
February 27, 2012.
The sub-
mitted papers will be reviewed prior
to final acceptance for inclusion in the
conference proceedings, which will be
also available on CD-ROM. At least
one author of an accepted paper must
register for the conference.
Abstracts should generally fall with-
in the following topics, but sessions
will be added for groups of abstracts
with common themes not listed below
:
Case studies, case histories and pa-
pers related to revitalization of aging
infrastructure are actively solicited.
Papers featuring innovative analysis
techniques and solutions, as well as re-
search (recent and/or future trends), are
strongly encouraged.
Fundamentals
• Engineering geology
• Foundation Engineering
• Geoenvironmental
• Landslides / Slope Stability / Slope
Engineering
• Reliability-Based / Limit States De-
sign
• Risk Assessment
• Rock Mechanics
• Soil Mechanics
• Seepage / Groundwater
• Cold Regions Geotechnology
• Soil Stabilization
Geotechnical
• Revitalization of Aging Infrastruc-
ture
• Reliability-based / limit states foun-
dation design
• Geohazards
• Retaining walls / MSE walls
• Brownfields and Redevelopment
• Mine Site Remediation
• Design of Earth Dams
• Design of Clay Liners
• Marine Geotechniques
• Non-textbook Soils/Waste Soils
• Harbour and Shoreline Geotech-
niques
Hydrogeology
• Aquifer Sustainability
• Mine Waters
• Source Water Protection
• Coastal Aquifers
• Paleogroundwaters
• Water Supply Protection
• GUDI Assessment and Protection
Cross-Disciplinary
• Geoenvironmental Sustainability
• Instrumentation
Questions regarding sessions, topics
and technical program should be
directed to the Technical Committee
contacts given below:
For General Inquiries
Gil Robinson
Dyregrov Robinson Inc.
Conference Chair
email:
For Technical Questions
Kent Bannister
Manitoba Hydro
Program Chair
email:
14th Pan-American Conference
on Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering and
64th Canadian Geotechnical
Conference
The Canadian Geotechnical Society
and the International Society for
Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical
Engineering invite you to the 14th
Pan-American
Conference
on
Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical
Engineering (PCSMGE), the 64th
Canadian Geotechnical Conference
(CGC) and the 5th Pan-American
Conference on Teaching and Learning
of
Geotechnical
Engineering
(PCTLGE) at the Sheraton Centre
Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from
October 2 to 6, 2011. Details for the
conference are located on the website,
.
11th International Symposium
on Landslides (ISL) and the 2nd
North American Symposium on
Landslides (NASL)
Join us in Banff, Canada in June 2012
for ISL/NASL 2012
The Canadian Geotechnical Society,
the Association of Environmental and
Engineering Geologists and the Joint
Technical Committee on Landslides
(JTC-1) invite you to the 11th Inter-
national Symposium on Landslides
(ISL) and the 2nd North American
Symposium on Landslides (NASL) at
the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in
