Dr. A.P.S. Selvadurai

    Dr. A.P.S. Selvadurai is William Scott Professor and James McGill Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at McGill University. He is the recipient of a number of awards and honours including the Humboldt Forschungspreis the Killam Research Fellowship of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Max Planck Forschungspreis in the Engineering Sciences, the Killam Prize in Engineering from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Gold Medal of the Canadian Congresses of Applied Mechanics, the IACMAG Medal for Outstanding Accomplishments in Geomechanics and in 2010, the ALERT Research Medal by the Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology. In 2012, he was awarded the Docteur Honoris Causa from the Institut Polytechnique Grenoble, for his contributions to environmental geomechanics and mathematical modelling. In 2013, he received The Eric Reissner Medal of the ICCES and the M.A. Biot Medal of the ASCE both awarded for outstanding contributions to mechanics, geomechanics, computational mechanics and applied mathematics. He serves on the Editorial Boards of nine leading International Journals devoted to Geomechanics, Applied Mechanics, Computational Mechanics and Engineering Mathematics. Dr. Selvadurai is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, American Academy of Mechanics, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Topic of Keynote: Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of Geomaterials - Applications in Environmental Geomechanics

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Dr. Mamadou Fall

    Dr. Fall is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa (Canada), the Associate Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Environmental Engineering and a regional Director of the Canadian Geotechnical Society. He was awarded a PhD excellence scholarship for his PhD studies in geotechnical engineering at the Technical University of Freiberg (Germany). Subsequently, he was granted a postdoctoral fellowship by the German Research Foundation and coordinated the German Research Chair of Environmental Geosciences and Geotechnics. Dr. Fall has been leading several major research projects that are related to mine waste management, underground disposal of nuclear wastes, geological sequestration of carbon dioxide, landslides, geotechnical hazards induced by problem grounds and engineered landfill technology. Dr. Fall is currently supervising a large research team of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students (PhD and Masters). His team is performing leading edge research in the geotechnical and geoenvironmental fields in close collaboration with the industry, major federal and provincial governmental institutions, and international partners. Over the years, his research projects have obtained substantial funding from a number of agencies and private companies, and his research findings have received published peer recognition. He has been involved in the organization of numerous workshops, seminars, and national and international conferences. He has been repeatedly invited as keynote speaker or lecturer and to participate at various expert committees. He regularly acts as a reviewer for scientific committees, peer review journals, and funding agencies at the national and international level. He is author or co-author of over 150 publications (e.g., in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs).

Topic of Keynote: Gas Generation and Migration in Safety Assessment of Deep Geological Repositories for Nuclear Wastes

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Dr. Ashutosh Bagchi

    Dr. Bagchi, currently an Associate Professor at Concordia University, Canada, received Ph.D. degree from Carleton University, Canada in 2001, M.S. from IIT-Madras in 1993, and B.E. from Jadapur University, Kolkata in 1989. His research interests include Structural Health Monitoring, Structural Dynamics and Earthquake engineering, Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Management. Dr. Bagchi is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario and member of many professional societies like CSCE, ASCE, CAEE (Can. Assoc. of Earthquake Engineering) and ISHMII (Int. Soc. for SHM of Intelligent Infrastructure). He has authored/coauthored more than one hundred articles in technical journals and conferences, two patent applications, and a number of technical reports for academia and industry.

Topic of Keynote: Advances in Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Rehabilitation and Maintenance of Concrete Bridges

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