Seminars and symposia
Engineering Geology Seminars, Spring 2024
We are delighted to announce the programme of the new Engineering Geology seminar series for this spring semester. We have 8 talks covering a broad range of topics. Please join us in person in NO C 6 or on zoom every Tuesday afternoon at 16.15.
Past Engineering Geology seminars
Our spring seminar series in 2022 took place as a series of webinars, hosted every Tuesday from 16.15-17.00 (Zurich time) via Zoom.
The Downloadschedule (PDF, 26 KB)vertical_align_bottom can be found and a detailed guest list and topics is also available in Downloadprogramme of guest lectures (PDF, 109 KB)vertical_align_bottom. Video recordings and materials of the lectures can be found below:
- 22 February: "DownloadIntroduction of the seminar series and MSc thesis projects (PDF, 919 KB)vertical_align_bottom", Dr. Qinghua Lei, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- 22 March: “Benchmark testing in Bedretto and Utah of procedures and instruments to prepare the Haute-sorne EGS geothermal project", Dr. Peter Meier, GeoEnergie Suisse, Switzerland
- 29 March: "Salt Solution Mining in Switzerland: Cavern Stability and Potential Environmental Impacts", Prof. Simon Löw, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- 5 April: "external pageGeothermal exploration in foreland sedimentary basins: Lessons learnt from 20 years of activity in the Swiss plateaucall_made", Prof. Andrea Moscariello (Downloadshort bio (PDF, 56 KB)vertical_align_bottom), Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
- 12 April: "Construction of New Albula Tunnel II - Conventional tunnelling in heterogeneous geology", Patric Walter, Construction Manager & Project Engineer for Tunnel Construction at AFRY
- 26 April: "Water can move mountains: hydrologically induced deformation in the Apennines (Italy) and Sierra Nevada (California) observed from GNSS data", Dr. Francesca Silverii (Downloadshort bio (PDF, 118 KB)vertical_align_bottom), National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in Rome, Italy
- 03 May: “Subsurface environments: A multi-scale scientific challenge”, Dr. Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland
- 10 May: “Geomechanical modelling and evaluation of induced seismicity in subsurface engineering operations”, Dr. Wenzhuo Cao (Downloadshort intro (PDF, 11 KB)vertical_align_bottom), Imperial College London, UK
- 17 May: “Rock Discontinuity Persistence: Current Understanding and New Insights", Dr. Junlong Shang (Downloadshort intro (PDF, 61 KB)vertical_align_bottom), University of Glasgow
- 24 May: "Couplable Wellbore-Reservoir Simulators to model multiscale geothermal problems", Dr. Maziar Gholami Korzani (Downloadshort intro (PDF, 64 KB)vertical_align_bottom), Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Past Guest Lecture information
- DownloadSpring Seminar Series, 2021 (PDF, 294 KB)vertical_align_bottom
- DownloadSpring Seminar Series, 2020 (PDF, 197 KB)vertical_align_bottom
- protected pageSpring Seminar Series, 2019lock
- protected pageSpring Seminar Series, 2018lock
- DownloadSpring Seminar Series, 2017 (PDF, 123 KB)vertical_align_bottom
- DownloadSpring Seminar Series, 2016 (PDF, 97 KB)vertical_align_bottom
- DownloadSpring Seminar Series, 2015 (PDF, 85 KB)vertical_align_bottom