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• Prague Geotechnical Days 2024 and 30th Prague Geotechnical Lecture are scheduled for May 13-14, 2024. Conference topic will be "Geotechnical Monitoring".
  
  PGD 13.5.2024
  "Geotechnical monitoring",
  PROGRAMME
  
  8:30-9:00
  Registration, commercial exhibition
  
  9:00-9:15
  Opening address
  Zdeněk Sekyra, Jana Frankovská, David Mašín, Petr Kučera, Stanislav Posípšil
  
  9:15-9:50
  Dr. Andrew Ridley
  Geotechnical Observations, United Kingdom
  How can we specify quality in geotechnical monitoring?
  
  9:50-10:25
  Dr. Francesca Casini
  Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
  In situ monitoring of the evolution of the frozen wall thickness in the application of Artificial Ground Freezing: observations and interpretation.
  
  10:25-11:00
  Dr. Loizos Pelecanos
  University of Bath, United Kingdom
  Distributed fibre optic monitoring of piles
  
  11:00-11:30 Coffee break
  
  11:30-12:05
  Prof. Minna Karstunen
  Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  Towards intergrating advanced numericals models with monitoring data
  
  12:05-12:40
  Prof. Jean-Michael Pereira
  Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France
  Adding value to geotechnical monitoring with Machine Learning approaches: TBM tunnel excavation as a case study
  
  12:40-13:40 Lunch break
  
  13:40-14:15
  Dr. Joel Smethurst
  University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  Monitoring infrastructure earthworks to assess their long-term performance
  
  14:15-14:50
  Dr. Sam Stanier
  University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  Instrumentation, data acquisition and control for a new geotechnical laboratory
  
  14:50-14:55
  Quido Záruba Prize Ceremony
  
  14:55-15:10
  Presentation of Quido Záruba Prize Winner
  
  15:10-15:30 Coffee break
  
  15:30-17:00
  Prague Geotechnical Lecture:
  Prof. Eduardo Alonso
  BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain
  Liquefaction-induced landslides
  
  Workshop 14.5:
  Prof. Eduardo Alonso
  BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain
  Coarse granular materials: from particle behaviour to large-scale structures