2003 : Past-events - Purdue Geotechnical Society

PGS Program

Program for the

Founding of the Purdue Geotechnical Society

and the first

G.A. Leonards Lecture

Thursday, May 22, 2003

Time	Activity	Location
10:00 am to noon	Informal Open House in the Geotechnical Labs	Meet in Room G212, Civil Engineering Building
noon	Lunch on your own
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Introductions and Formation of the PGS	East-West Faculty Lounge of Purdue Memorial Union
2:15 pm	*1st G.A. Leonards Lecture* given by Dr. Milton E. Harr Title: *The Fountain*	East-West Faculty Lounge of Purdue Memorial Union
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Tour of the Bowen Civil Engineering Lab (under construction near US231 and South River Road)	Buses will pick up at and return to Purdue Memorial Union
6:30 pm	Reception and Cocktails (Open bar)	East-West Faculty Lounge of Purdue Memorial Union
7:30 pm	Dinner	East-West Faculty Lounge of Purdue Memorial Union
8:30 pm - ??	Informal Program of Remembering and Reminiscing	East-West Faculty Lounge of Purdue Memorial Union

On the following day, Friday, May 23rd, Purdue will host the 11th Great Lakes Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Conference (GLGGC2003) with the theme Advances in Characterizing and Engineering Problem Soils. The morning keynote speaker will be Victor Milligan giving the 2002 Terzaghi Lecture with the topic Some Uncertainties in Embankment Dam Engineering. Nine other presentations are slated for the GLGGC including an afternoon keynote talk on Engineering Properties of Fibrous Peats by Gholamreza Mesri, the Ralph Peck Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.