TOC$% TC$meeting,$Reykjavik3 September$2019

Pierre%Delage

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TOC$Members

• Regional%VPs

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Africa Etienne%Marcelin% KanaAsia Eung%Shul ShinAustralasia Philipp RobbinsNorth%America Tim NewsonSouth%America Alejo SfrisoEuropa Mario Manassero

• To%follow%the%TC%activities%in%their%region• To%help%managing%the%ISSMGE%support%to%the%Conferences%organised%in%their%region%by%TCs%and%ISSMGE%members

Recent$news

• New%TC%Chairs%since%2017• Matthew%Coop%(UK),%TC101%Lab%testing• Akira%Murakami%(Japan),%TC103%Numerical%methods• DongRSoo%Kim%(Korea),%TC104%Physical%modelling• Kenichi%Soga%(USA),%TC105%MicroRmacro• Rod%Salgado%(USA),%TC205%SafetyRserviceability%• Phil%Watson%(Australia),%TC209%Offshore• Limin Zhang%(HKSAR),%TC210%Dams• Hanlong Liu%(China),%TC303%Floods• Jianye Ching%(Chinese%Taipei),%TC304%Risk• Marina%Pantazidou (Greece),%TC306%GeoREducation

• New%TCs• TC309:%Machine%learning%and%Big%Data%(Chair%Zhongqiang Liu,%Norway)• TC219:%System%Performance%of%Geotechnical%Systems%(Chair%Gang%Zheng,%China)• TC220:%Field%Monitoring%in%Geomechanics%(Chair%Andrew%Ridley,%UK)

• OnRgoing%project:%new%TC%on%Mine%Waste%R Tailing%Dams%(VPs%from%Americas)• ISSMGE&open&to&any&new&and&constructive&idea

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TC$activities

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TC$activities

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TC$activitiesUp%to%36%years%old,%in%connection%with%Pdt Charles%Ng%and%Lucy%Wu,%Chair%of%Young%Members%Presidential%Group,%see%next%slide

• TCs encouraged to%promote talented young geotechnical engineers through Bright%Sparks%plenary lectures%in%their conferences:

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Bright$Sparks$lectures

• OPEN%ACCESS%PROCEEDINGS%strongly encouraged!easier through local,%less established,%publishers,%copyright%kept by%authors,%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%see ISSMGE&Publication&and&Conference Manualhttps://www.issmge.org/filemanager/article/391/ISSMGE_Conference_And_Publication_Manual.pdf

• ISSMGE%(D.%Zekkos,%IDC)%launches Conference Paper+Review Platform+to%help%managing papers submitted to%Conferenceswill work for&ISC’6&> Site&characterisation > Budapest,&TC102,&Sept.&2020

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ISSMGE$Publication$policy

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Gap$academy$– practitioners$$$(CAPG$– TOC)

• Transfer%from%research%to%practice• To%help%practitioners%benefit%from%advances%in%research%

• To%consider gender aspects%in%the%nomination%of%Bright%Sparks%lecturers (mainly men%up%to%now)• To%consider a%limitation%of%the%length of%the%TC%delegate terms (no%perpetual delegates):%issue%to%manage%with Member societies (MS),%not%always easy• Recall on%the%possibility for%TC%officers to%suggest MS%to%replace%inactive%members by%active%and%motivated corresponding members• Comments on%the%difficulty of%constituting membership list for%new%TCs (no%direct%contact%between member societies and%TC%officers,%no%CV%of%members sent%to%TC%officers)• Reservations about%the%reduction of%Honour lectures%in%ICSMGE%plenary sessions,%and%comments about%the%limited availability of%academics for%preparing State%of%the%Art%lectures• Concerns by%TC%officers who didn’t receive relevant%information%with respect%to%participating to%the%forthcoming Sydney%ICSMGE.%They were invited to%write to%Pierre%Delage%who will forward their message%to%the%Sydney%technical committee

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Discussion$– Remarks$from$participants