Special Lectures
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In addition to a number of invited keynote lectures, Geo-Congress 2006 Atlanta will feature several of the annual ASCE/Geo-Institute named lectures, specifically the Terzaghi, Seed, and Peck Lectures. TERZAGHI LECTURE: "DREDGED MATERIALS: FRIEND OR FOE?" Sunday, February 26th, 5:00 - 6:30pm RAYMOND J. KRIZEK Stanley F. Pepper Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Master of Project Management program at Northwestern University, has degrees in civil engineering from Johns Hopkins University (BE, 1954), the University of Maryland (MS, 1961), and Northwestern University (Ph.D., 1963). Since completing his doctorate, he has been on the faculty at Northwestern University where he served as Department Chair from 1980 to 1992. His academic family consists of more than 300 master's degree graduates and 60 doctoral graduates. Among his many honors are election to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, an honorary doctorate from the University of Cantabria in Spain, the Palmes Academiques from the French Ministry of Education, honorary membership in ASCE, Civil Engineer of the Year by the Illinois Section of ASCE, the G. Brooks Earnest Award from the Cleveland Section of ASCE, the Carroll Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, the Buchanan Lecturer at Texas A&M University, President of the Geo-Institute, the Huber Research Prize from ASCE, the Terzaghi Award from the Geo-Institute of ASCE, and the Hogentogler Award from ASTM. On a personal level, in years past, Dr. Krizek hiked several hundred miles of the Appalachian Trail and is still proud of achieving the rank. of Eagle Scout. SEED LECTURE: "GEOTECHNICAL SURPRISES - OR ARE THEY?" Tuesday, February 28th, 3:30 - 5:30pm JAMES KENNETH MITCHELL University Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA and Consulting Geotechnical Engineer He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1958 and held the Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Chair in the Department of Civil Engineering at the time of his retirement from Berkeley in 1993. Concurrently, he was Research Engineer in the Institute of Transportation Studies and in the Earthquake Engineering Research Center. He developed and taught graduate courses in soil behavior, soil and site improvement, and foundation engineering as part of the Geotechnical Engineering Program within the Civil Engineering Department. He served as Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley from 1979 through 1984. After retirement from the University of California in 1993, he was appointed the first Charles E. Via, Jr. Professor in the Virginia Department of Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech in 1994, University Distinguished Professor in 1996, and University Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, in 1999. He continues with research and graduate student supervision at Virginia Tech. PECK LECTURE: "BEHAVIOR OF THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA DURING AND AFTER STABILIZATION WORKS" 2:15 - 3:45pm MICHELE B. JAMIOLKOWSKI Michele B. Jamiolkowski has been a Professor of Geotechnical Engineeering at the Technical University of Torino since 1969. Prof. Jamiolkowski is the recipient of the 2001 Karl Terzaghi Award given by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He recently received the 2005 Award from the Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS) for the best 2003 JGS Paper. He has been an Honorable International Member of JGS since 1998. In addition to his many accolades, Prof. Jamiolkowski has been named Honorary Professor at the Academia Sinica of Guangzhou, in China. |
