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On behalf of TC106 and Hong Kong Geotechnical Society, the HKUST is pleased to invite you to attend the 7th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT2018) in August 2018. This conference will provide an excellent opportunity for worldwide academics, engineers, scientists and government officials to exchange the latest developments in the research and application of unsaturated soil mechanics.  We are delighted to announce that UNSAT2018 will collaborate with TC215 – Environmental Geotechnics, TC206 – Interactive Geotechnical Design and TC308 – Energy Geotechnics for organizing mini-symposia or workshops.

The conference will be featured by:

• Blight lecture, keynote lectures, general reports and special lectures

• Joint TC mini-symposia/workshops

• Elevator pitch sessions and poster presentation

The 2nd Blight  Lecture will be delivered by Professor Delwyn Fredlund at UNSAT2018.

BLIGHT LECTURER	KEYNOTE SPEAKERS			GENERAL REPORTERS			SPECIAL INVITED SPEAKERS			ISSMGE BRIGHT SPARK LECTURERS
Delwyn Fredlund Golder Associates	Eduardo Alonso UPC, Spain	Pierre Delage ENPC, France	Lyesse Laloui EPFL, Swizerland	David Masin CU, Czech Rep	Fernando Marinho USP, Brazil	Vinayagamoothy Sivakumar, Queen's Uni Belfast	Daichao Sheng U. Newcastle, Australia	Harianto Rahardjo NTU, Singapore	Abdelmalek Bouazza Monash U., Australia	Amin Askarinejad, TU Delft, Netherland	Annan Zhou, RMIT, Australia
	Lidija Zdravkovic Imperial College, UK	Antonio Gens UPC, Spain	Yunmin Chen, Zhejiang Uni.	John McCartney UCSD, USA	Marcelo Sanchez Texas AMU, USA	David Toll, Durham Uni	Bernardo Caicedo U. de Los Andes, Colombia	Ning Lu Colorado Sch. of Mines, USA	Changfu Wei, Wuhan Instit. of Rock & Soil Mech., China	Majid Ghayoomi, Uni of New Hampshire, USA	Chao Zhou, HKUST
							De’an Sun, Shanghai Uni, China	YJ Cui  ENPC, France	Yangping Yao Beihang Uni, China

Date & Venue

• Date: 3^rd - 5^th August 2018
• Venue: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Organised by:

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Supported by:

• TC106 Unsaturated Soils of ISSMGE
• Hong Kong Geotechnical Society (HKGES)
• Geotechnical Division of Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (GD of HKIE)
• Geotechnical Engineering Office of CEDD, HKSAR (GEO of CEDD)
• City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
• Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU)
• The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
• Chinese Institution of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (CISMGE)
• Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB)