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School of Civil, Environmental
and Mining Engineering

Engineering North N136,
North Terrace Campus
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
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2008 Postgraduate Seminar Program

(Please note that 'work in progress' is being presented at these seminars)

  • Semester 1 - Seminars will be held in Room N132
  • Semester 2 - Seminars will be held in Room S111

Seminars start at 4pm. Biscuits and tea/coffee in the Culver room (N134) at 3.45pm.

If you have any queries about the seminar program, please contact Assoc Prof David Walker.

DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
28th January Public Holiday
29th January (Tues)    
4th February Wenyan Wu "Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Optimisation of Water Distribution Systems Accounting for Sustainability"
11th February Wade Lucas "A Fundamental Analysis into the Shear Strength of an RC Beam"
18th February    
25th February Ali Hassanli (pdf 11kB)
Visiting Academic
UniSA
"Water Management and Water Use Efficiency Improvement by Irrigation Scheduling for Sustainable Use of Effluent" [abstract (pdf 7kB)]
3rd March    
10th March Public Holiday
17th March Daniel Partington "Modelling Surface Water - Groundwater Interactions in the Upper South East Region of South Australia" - Confirmation Seminar
20th March (Thurs) Abigail Goodman "Impacts of an Altered Water and Salinity Regime on the Condition of Wetlands in the Upper South East of South Australia"
24th March Public Holiday
28th March (Fri)

Dr Jochen Deuerlein (pdf 6kB)
Uni of Karlsruhe
Germany

"New Concepts in Network Decomposition Analysis and the Nash Equilibrium for Solving Pressure Regulating Devices for Modelling of Water Distribution Systems" [abstract (pdf 25kB)]
31st March    
7th April D Nagesh Kumar
Indian Inst of Science
India
"Hydrologic variability and uncertainty analysis through hydroclimatic teleconnection" [abstract (pdf 7kB)]
14th April Brendan Scott "The Impact of Rolling Dynamic Compaction" - Confirmation Seminar
21st April    
28th April    
5th May Jian Lim "Analytical Models for Concrete Columns Confined by Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites"
12th May    
19th May Ashu Jain
Visitor from India
"Development of Integrated Hydrologic Models" [abstract (pdf 5kB)]
26th May    
2nd June    
9th June Public Holiday
16th June Amgad Elmahdi
Water Resource Systems
CSIRO
"System Thinking and Modelling Approach for Integrated Water Resource Management" [abstract (pdf 7kB)]
23rd June    
30th June    
7th July    
14th July    
21st July Andrew Whittaker
University of Buffalo
"Seismic and/or Blast Resistant Design of Structures"
28th July    
4th August Andrew Skinner "Measurement of Very Slow Flows in Environmental Engineering"
11th August Camille Couzi
Intern Student - France
"Engineering Education in France and Coastal Studies in Australia"
18th August    
25th August    
1st September Professor Zastrau (pdf 55kB)
Visitor from Germany
"On the Prediction of the Textile Reinforced Concrete Behaviour" [abstract (pdf 37kB)]
8th September Gayani Fernando

"Multi model combination techniques to assess and reduce prediction uncertainty" - Introductory Seminar

15th September Tom Vincent "Predictions of Deformations in Partially Prestressed Suspended Slabs in Tall Buildings" - Final Seminar
22nd September    
29th September    
6th October Public Holiday
13th October    
20th October Wade Lucas "A Fundamental Analysis into the Shear Strength of RC Beams"
27th October    
3rd November    
10 November Melissa Salt "Final Landfill Cover Preliminary Water Balance Results"
17th November Jakin Ravalico "MORE and POMORE Sensitivity Analysis of the MSM-BIGMOD River Murray Flow and Salinity Model" - Final Seminar
24th November Matt Haskett "Rotation and moment redistribution in RC members"
1st December Deric Oehlers "The Hunt for the Elusive Concept"
8th December    
15th December Ki-Bok Min "Some Rock Mechanics Studies on the Geological Repositories of High-Level Nuclear Waste in the US and Sweden"
22nd December Yu Su "Numerical Simulation of Mitigating Blast Effects of Retrofitted Masonry Structures"