The 2024 Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium was a success!
Dec 04, 2024
The 2024 Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium was a success!
The eighth annual UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium was held on November 22, 2024, at the Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall. The symposium showcased current research works in the GeoSystems Engineering group at UC Berkeley and bridged academic and industry communities.
The keynote speakers for the event were four Ph.D. and one postdoc researchers in the GeoSystems Engineering program. They presented their research findings and potential avenues for future projects. The presenters and the title of their presentation were:
Tianchen Xu - Distributed Strain Sensing for Pipeline Safety Against Fault and Landslide Movement
Yaobin Yang - Fiber-Optics Shape Sensing and Error Analysis with the Cosserat Theory of Rods
Youngseok Jo - A Next-Generation Multi-Scale approach for monitoring Landfill Surface Methane Emissions
Yuval Keissar - 3-D Kinematics in Rock Slope Stability
Joel Given - Advances in imposing Nonconforming Neumann Boundary Conditions in the Material Point Method
An industry panel followed a successful networking and poster presentation. Four prominent engineers from the industry, Kenneth A Johnson (WSP), Phillip Gregory (Hayley & Aldrich), Marcus Pacheco (Municon West Coast), and Maggie Parks (CGS), gave their insight on the topic of "Embracing the Future of Geosystems: Scaling Innovative Technologies."
The event was organized by the GeoEngineering Graduate Student Association at UC Berkeley and funded by the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly. The happy hour after the event was sponsored by GEI, Geosyntec, and SFGI.