The eighth annual UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium was held on November 22, 2024, at the Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall. The symposium showcased current research works in the GeoSystems Engineering group at UC Berkeley and bridged academic and industry communities.
Figure 1. 2024 GeoSymposium
The four of the keynote speakers for the event were CSI researchers and presented their research findings and potential avenues for future projects. The presenters and the title of their presentation were:
Tianchen Xu – Distributed Strain Sensing for Pipeline Safety Against Fault and Landslide Movement
Yaobin Yang – Fiber-Optics Shape Sensing and Error Analysis with the Cosserat Theory of Rods
Youngseok Jo – A Next-Generation Multi-Scale approach for monitoring Landfill Surface Methane Emissions
Joel Given – Advances in imposing Nonconforming Neumann Boundary Conditions in the Material Point Method
The event was organized by the GeoEngineering Graduate Student Association at UC Berkeley and funded by the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly. The happy hour after the event was sponsored by GEI, Geosyntec, and SFGI.