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5.1 Annual Conferences:
Geo Florida 2010 Conference
February 20-24, 2010, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Geo-Frontiers 2011 Conference - Advances in Geotechnical
Engineering
March 13-16, 2011, Dallas, Texas, USA
5.2 Other important technical events:
Earth Retention Conference 3
August 1- 4, 2010, Bellevue, Washington
5th International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE-5)
November 7-10, 2010, San Francisco, California
5.3 Co-sponsored events:
35th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations
October 12-15, 2010, Renaissance Hollywood, California
International Symposium on Testing and Specification of
Recycled Materials for Sustainable Geotechnical Construction
February 02-04, 2011, Baltimore, MD
6 SMIG, MEXICO
Presidents during the period: Walter Paniagua, Juan de Dios
Alemán
During this period, the Mexican Society for Soil Mechanics
changed its name to Mexican Society for Geotechnical
Engineering (Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Geotécnica).
6.1 Biennial Conference:
25th National Meeting of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical
Engineering, and 20th Nabor Carrillo Lecture (Lecturer:
Enrique Santoyo Villa)
November 11-13, 2010, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
6.2 Other important technical events:
International Symposium: Technologies and foundation systems
for the twentieth Century
December 3-4, 2009, Mexico City
Symposium on tunnels and tunnel shafts in soils and rocks
February 25-26, 2010, Mexico City
Geosynthetics: Present and future perspectives in Mexico
March 10-12, 2010, Mexico City
SMIG also organized a number of short courses and special
activities. It published an excellent commemorative volume on
the history of Soil Mechanics in Mexico untitled: “El Siglo de la
mecánica de Suelos (Soil Mechanics’ century)”
On January 20th 2011, SMIG organized in Mexico City a
Special Symposium to honor the memory of the late Prof.
Leonardo Zeevaert, with participation, among other
personalities, of Jean-Louis Briaud, and William Van Impe,
respectively President and past President of ISSMGE.
7 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
During the period, formal international relations between the
three member countries were encouraged. Contacts were
however established mostly in an informal manner taking
advantage of personal relations. Typical were the lectures given
in Mexico by Jorge Zornberg (GI, USA) on Geotextiles and by
Serge Leroueil (Canada) on Compacted soils.
An agreement of cooperation was signed between GI (USA)
and SMIG (Mexico) on October 7th, 2009 in Alexandria, Egypt.
To follow up on this agreement, Juan de Dios Alemán, SMIG
President, and G. Auvinet, ISSMGE VP for North America,
were invited to attend the GI board of governors meeting in
Dallas (March 12th 2011). A proposal to organize a joint
technical event in 2012 on “Geotechnical Hazards” is being
evaluated.
G. Auvinet, ISSMGE VP for North America, was also
kindly invited to attend the board of governors meeting of CGS
in Calgary, on September 12th, 2010.
8 PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE
An important event for both regions of the American continent
is the upcoming Pan-American Conference:
14th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering
& 64th Canadian Geotechnical Conference
October 2-6, 2011, Toronto, Ontario
The conference technical program will enhance opportunities
for interaction between academics, practitioners, designers,
contractors and owners from North, Central and South America.
This will be accomplished through a combination of invited
speakers for plenary sessions, including keynote presentations
(Casagrande Lecture and the R.M. Hardy Lecture), specialist
technical breakout sessions and exhibits. There will also be
poster sessions, panel discussions, short courses/workshops and
technical tours.
The Casagrande Lecturer will be Dr. Kerry Rowe (Queen’s
University)
To promote a wide participation in this conference a special
meeting of the Pan-American Committee took place in
Gramado, Brazil (during COBRAMSEG2010, August 17-22)
with participation of delegates from 15 member countries.
Professor Giovanni Cascante, co-chair of the 14th PCSMGE
organizing committee, presented the advances in the Toronto
Conference organization. President of ISSMGE, Jean-Louis
Briaud and Past President Pedro Seco y Pinto, attended this
meeting. The North American region was represented by
Giovanni Cascante (Canada), Robert Holtz (USA), Walter
Paniagua (Mexico) and G. Auvinet (ISSMGE VP for North
America)
To foster participation of members of all countries of the
continent, including some that may not be able to attend the
Conference, and respecting a tradition inherited from previous
Pan-American Conferences, the Organizing Committee kindly
agreed to include all accepted papers in the Proceedings.
However, only duly registered members by July 2011 will be
considered
for
oral
and
poster
presentations.
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