Preliminary Program and Events

7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Registration

8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Committee Meetings

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Short Courses

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall

7:00 AM -3:30 PM
Registration Opens

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Opening Presentation and Plenary Session: Unsaturated Soils Mechanics in Waste Management. Eduardo Alonso, Ph.D., P.E.,Technical University of Cataluna, Barcelona, Spain

P.E. Plenary Session: Unsaturated Soil Mechanics in Waste Management, Geoffrey Blight, Ph.D., P.E., University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Guest Breakfast

10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Exhibit Hall Opens

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Concurrent Technical Sessions

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch in Exhibit Hall

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
SOA Panel General Session: Laboratory Testing including Soil Water Characteristic Curve, Charles W. W. Ng, Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Technology, Hong Kong Pierre Delage, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Marne la Vallee, France Laureano Hoyos, Ph.D., P.E., University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Alessandro Tarantino, Ph.D., University of Trento, Italy

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Concurrent Technical Sessions

6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Committee Meetings

7:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Registration

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Plenary Session:Constitutive Modelling of Unsaturated Soils, Simon Wheeler, Ph.D., University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

10:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Exhibit Hall open Concurrent Technical Sessions

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Concurrent Technical Sessions

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch in Exhibit Hall

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Concurrent Technical Sessions

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Concurrent Technical Sessions

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Conference Banquet - Bar-B-Q!

6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Committee Meetings

7:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Registration

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Plenary Session: Suction Measurement Harianto Rahardjo, Ph.D., and Choon Leong, Ph.D., Eng., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Exhibit Hall open

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Concurrent Technical Sessions

12:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Lunch in Exhibit Hall

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
SOA Panel Discussion:Revisitation of Expansive Soils Kenneth Walsh, Ph.D., P.E., San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Robert Lytton, Ph.D.,Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Sandra Houston, Ph.D., P.E., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Art Pengelly, Hayward Baker, Fort Worth, TX

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing Discussion and Presentation Delwyn Fredlund, Ph.D., P.Eng., University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Arizona State University Tour

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Scenic Airline Geologic Tour of the Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau Region