Sunday September 21
Research Symposium on the Characterization and Behavior of Interfaces (CBI)
09:00 CBI: Session 1
12:00 Lunch
13:00 CBI: Session 2
16:00 Adjourn

IS Atlanta 2008: Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials
16:00-19:00 Registration for IS Atlanta 2008 opens
18:00-20:00 Icebreaker Reception, GT Global Learning Center, Atrium Level 1

Monday September 22
07:00-10:00 Registration
08:00 Opening Ceremony
08:30 Keynote Presentation: Cino Viggiani
Full-field Measurements: a new tool for laboratory experimental geomechanics
09:00 Keynote Presentation: Marika Santagata
Effects of stress history on the stiffness of a soft clay
09:30 Coffee Break
10:00 Plenary Sesssion A: Natural Geomaterials and Reconstituted Soils
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Keynote Presentation: Barry Lehane
Settlement prediction for footings on sand
15:30 Keynote Presentation: Leo Rothenburg
Micromechanics
14:00 Plenary Session B: Cemented and Stabilized Soils
15:45 Coffee Break
16:00 Plenary Session C: Instability and Localization; Rheology, Strain Rate, and Aging
18:50 Adjourn

Tuesday September 23
08:00 Keynote Presentation: Junichi Koseki
Shear and tensile properties of cement-treated sands and their application to mitigation of liquefaction-induced damage
08:30 Keynote Presentation: Radu Popescu
Effects of soil spational variabliity on liquefaction resistance
09:00 Plenary Session D: Scale and Spatial Variablity
09:35 Coffee Break
10:00 Plenary Sesssion E: Unsaturated Soils and Frozen Geomaterials; Anisotropy
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Keynote Presentation: David Muir Wood
Critical states and soil modeling
13:30 Keynote Presentation: Dawn Shuttle
Importance of small strain response to prediction of large scale behavior in sand
14:00 Plenary Session F: Soils with Inclusions
15:30 Coffee Break
15:45 Plenary Session G: Laboratory Methods - Small Strain
18:00 Social Hour, Biltmore Hotel
18:30 Symposium Banquet, Biltmore Hotel (5th St and West Peachtree)

Wednesday September 24
08:00 Plenary Session H: Laboratory Methods - Large Strain; Field Methods
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Plenary Session I: Analytical and Numerical Methods
11:45 Keynote Presentation: Ken Stokoe II
Field and Lab Comparisons on Small-Strain Shear Moduli
12:15 Closing Remarks
12:30 Adjourn

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