2010
Sowers Symposium
Speakers:
State-of-the-Art Lecture
"Discrete-Element Modeling of Rock Fracture for Nuclear-Waste Isolation"
(ppt)
(Demos zip)
David O. Potyondy, Itasca Consulting Group
State-of-the-Practice Lecture
"A Perspective on Geotechnical Laboratory Testing: The Details Matter"
(ppt)
John T. Germaine, Lecturer and Senior Research
Associate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sowers Lecture
"Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans Levees: What Went Wrong and
What
Lessons Have Been Learned?"
(pdf)
David E. Daniel, President, University of Texas at Dallas