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Upcoming events with the participation of CEISCE members
- April 22nd-26th, 2024 - 2024 USSD Annual Conference & Exhibition - United States Society on Dams (USSD), Seattle, Washington, United States (website).
Other upcoming events
- April 14th-19th, 2024 - EGU General Assembly 2024 - European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria (website).
- April 28th-May 1st, 2024 - GeoAmericas 2024 - 5th Pan-American Conference on Geosynthetics - IGS North America - US/Canada chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (website).
- May 7th-10th, 2024 - 8th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (8ICEGE) - International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), Osaka, Japan (website).
- May 7th-10th, 2024 - International Foundations Congress & Equipment Expo (IFCEE 2024) - ADSC - The International Association of Foundation Drilling, DFI (Deep Foundations Institute), G-I (Geo-Institute of American Society of Civil Engineers), and PDCA (Pile Driving Contractors Association), Dallas, Texas, United States (website).
- May 13th-17th, 2024 - 91e Congrès de l'Acfas - ACFAS, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (website).
- June 5th-7th, 2024 - 2024 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference (CSCE 2024 Annual Conference) - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (website).
- June 10th-13th, 2024 - 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2024) - European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), Potsdam, Germany (website).
- June 16th-20th, 2024 - 12th International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP2024) - Canadian Permafrost Association, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada (website).
- June 24th-28th, 2024 - 12th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2024) - International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), Copenhagen, Danmark (website).
- June 30th-july 5th, 2024 - 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024) - International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE), Milan, Italy (website).
- July 8th-10th, 2024 - 11th International Conference on the Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas (STESSA 2024), Salerno, Italy (website).
- July 7th-12th, 2024 - 44th International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024) - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), Athens, Greece (website).
- August 26th-30th, 2024 - XVIII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ECSMGE 2024) - Portuguese Geotechnical Society (SPG), Lisbon, Portugal (website).
- September 15th-18th, 2024 - GeoMontreal 2024 - 77th Annual Conference - Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS), Montreal, Quebec, Canada (website).
- September 23rd-25th, 2024 - Annual Conference and Trade Show 2024 - Canadian Dam Association (CDA), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (website).
- September 23rd-27th, 2024 - 5th International Symposium on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro (IS-Grenoble 2024) - International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), Grenoble, France (website).
- September 25th-27th, 2024 - IABSE Congress 2024 - International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), San Jose, Costa Rica (website).
- October 18th-24th, 2024 - 92nd ICOLD Annual Meeting & International Symposium on "Dams for People, Water, Environment and Development" (ICOLD-CIGB 2024), New Delhi, India (website).
- November 12th-16th, 2024 - 17th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XVII PCSMGE) and 2nd Latin-American Regional Conference of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG) - International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) - Chilean Geotechnical Society (SOCHIGE), La Serena, Chile (website).
- November 18th-20th, 2024 - 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (5th ICTG) - Transport Research Centre of University of Technology Sydney (UTS-TRC), International Society of Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS), Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS), Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society (SEAGS), Sydney, Australia (website).
- November 18th-20th, 2024 - HYDRO 2024 International Conference and Exhibition - The International Journal on Hydropower and Dams, Graz, Austria (website).
- June 22nd-25th, 2025 - 4th Pan American Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (website).
- August 3rd-8th, 2025 - 45th International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2025) - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), Brisbane, Australia (website).
- September 14th-16th, 2025 - 14th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC 2025) - Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions (SAHC), Lausanne, Switzerland (website).
- 2025 - 11th edition of the International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES 2025), To be determined (website).
- July 19th-24th, 2026 - 46th International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2026) - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), Washington, Distric of Columbia, United States (website).
- 2026 - 12th International Conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges (SMSB – XII 2026) - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), To be determined, Canada (website).
- 2026 - 13th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2026) - International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), Orlando, Florida, United States (website).
Past Conferences/Seminars/Webinars/Workshops organized by CEISCE
- Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 from 11:45 to 13:15 - Room J-1035 (Pavillon J.-Armand-Bombardier) at Polytechnique Montréal - simultaneously online (Zoom link: here) - Conference: Characteristics, seismic performance and retrofit of existing tall steel framed buildings. Presented by Mr. James O. Malley, S.E. (Senior Principal, Degenkolb Engineers, San Francisco, California), as part of "EERI Friedman Family Visiting Professional Program". The abstract of this presentation is available here.
- Thursday, October 19th, 2023 from 10:20 to 12:00 - Room EV2.184 at Concordia University (SDG Campus) - simultaneously online (details here) - Conference: Advancing Seismic Resilience of Bridge Infrastructure: Innovations in Fragility Assessment, Risk Mitigation, and Machine Learning Applications. Presented by Prof. Yazhou (Tim) Xie, Ph.D., P.Eng. (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada). The abstact of this presentation is available here.
- Thursday, March 30th, 2023 from 12:30 to 13:30 - Room M2004 at Polytechnique Montréal - simultaneously online (details here) - Conference: An Innovative Flood Resilient Modular Structural Steel Structure: Flood-Jack System. Presented by Dr. Luigi Di Sarno (University of Liverpool, UK; University of Naples, Italy). The abstact of this presentation is available here.
- Thursday, December 15th, 2022 from 13:00 to 14:00 - Room L-3816 at Polytechnique Montréal - simultaneously online (details here) - Conference: Integrated seismic and energy efficiency retrofitting of existing RC buildings. Presented by Dr. Ricardo Monteiro (IUSS Pavia, Italy). The abstact of this presentation is available here.
- Thursday, December 1st, 2022 from 12:30 to 13:30 - Online (details here) - Conference: Material Fracture Simulations in Automotive Structures Design for CrashWorthiness. Presented by Dr. S. Bhattacharjee (Ford Motor Company, USA). The abstract of this presentation is available here.
- Thursday, November 10th, 2022 from 12:30 à 13:30 - Online (details here) - Conference: Glace de rivière: données émergentes et modélisations. Presented by Prof. Mélanie Trudel (Departement of civil and building engineering - Université de Sherbrooke). The abstract of this presentation is available here.
- Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 from 12:30 to 13:30 - Room C-539.6 at Polytechnique Montréal - simultaneously online (details here) - Conference: Nonlinear passive control and energy localization in mechanical and structural systems. Presented by Mr. Alireza Ture Savadkoohi (Université de Lyon, ENTPE, LTDS UMR CNRS 5513), in Quebec for a collaboration visit with CEISCE researchers (Université de Sherbrooke and Polytechnique Montréal). The abstract of this presentation is available here.
- Thursday, October 27th, 2022 from 12:45 to 13:45 - Room L-3816 at Polytechnique Montréal - simultaneously online (details here) - Conference: An overview of Brazil and the research activities in applied mathematics and numerical methods developed at Federal University of Pernambuco – UFPE. Presented by Professor Paulo Ribeiro (UFPE, Brazil), currently visiting Professor at Polytechnique Montréal. The abstract of this presentation is available here.
- Monday, May 9th, 2022 - CEISCE Colloquium at Polytechnique Montréal (Detailed program available here).
Past events to which CEISCE members participated
- May 2024 - 30e Colloque sur la progression de la recherche québécoise sur les ouvrages d’art - Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable du Québec at Université Laval, Québec, Québec, (website); Prof. Guizani is part of the organizing committee.
- June 25th-30th, 2023 - Canadian Conference - Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2023 (CCEE – PCEE 2023) - Canadian Association for Earthquake Engineering (CAEE) + New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering (NZSEE), Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada (website).
- August 8th-12th, 2022 - 11th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII-11) at Concordia University, Montréal (website); Several CEISCE members contributed to the organization of this international event: Pre. Rola Assi (chair of the communications committee), Pr. Ashutosh Bagchi (conference chair), Pr. Najib Bouaanani (conference co-chair and technical committee chair), Pre. Pampa Dey (member of the technical committee), Pr. Khaled Galal (chair of the budget committee), Pre. Nathalie Roy (member of the technical committee), and Pre. Lucia Tirca (co-chair of the conference).
- June 19th-23th, 2022 - International Workshop on Atmospheric Icing of Structures at McGill University, Montréal (website); Prof. Ghyslaine McClure co-chaired this conference, and Prof. Sébastien Langlois the technical committee.
- Friday, February 25th, 2022, 4 pm - Webinar organized by Research Centre for Structural Safety and Resilience - CSSR (website): Seismic Performance Assessment of Reinforced Masonry Core Shear Walls with Boundary Elements, presented by Amgad Mahrous under the supervision of Pr. Khaled Galal.
- Friday, January 28th, 2022, 4 pm - Webinar organized by Research Centre for Structural Safety and Resilience - CSSR (website): Design approach for friction dampers in steel buildings, presented by Derek Millichamp under the supervision of Pr. Lucia Tirca.
Other past events
- April 10th-12th, 2024 - IABSE SYMPOSIUM 2024 - International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Manchester, United Kingdom (website).
- March 19th-22nd, 2024 - 2024 Structural Stability Research Council Annual Stability Conference (SSRC 2024) + AISC’s North American Steel Construction Conference: The Steel Conference - The Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC), San Antonio, Texas, United States (website).
- March 18th-20th, 2024 - 2nd International Summit on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (ISCSEE2024), Florence, Italy (website).
- March 19th, 2024 - The Canadian Association of Dams (CDA) and the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) present a conference entitled: "The Dam Industry, A World to Discover!". The event will be held in a hybrid format (in person at the École de technologie supérieure in Videotron Auditorium E-2033, and simultaneously streamed online), on March 19, 2024, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m (website).
- February 25th-28th, 2024 - Geo-Congress 2024 - ASCE Geo-Institute, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada (website).
- February 7th, 2024 - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Webinar Series (CSCE Webinar Series) - Climate Action In Structural Design (website).
- October 22nd-25th, 2023 - Annual Conference and Trade Show 2023 - Canadian Dam Association (CDA), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (website).
- October 19th-22nd, 2023 - 12th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure - International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (ISHMII), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China (website).
- October 16th-18th, 2023 - HYDRO 2023 International Conference and Exhibition - Aqua-Media International Ltd (The International Journal on Hydropower and Dams), Edinburgh, Scotland (website).
- October 11th-13th, 2023 - International Aluminium Conference 2023 (INALCO 2023) - AluQuébec + REGAL, Québec, Québec, Canada (website).
- October 1st-4th, 2023 - GeoSaskatoon2023 - Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (website).
- September 26th-27th, 2023 - 2023 Canadian Steel Conference - Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) , Toronto, Ontario, Canada (website).
- September 25th-29th, 2023 - 2nd Conference of the European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures (Eurostruct 2023), Vienna, Austria (website).
- September 20th-22nd, 2023 - IABSE Congress 2023 - International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), New Delhi, India (website).
- September 14th-15th, 2023 - SECED 2023 Conference (Earthquake Engineering & Dynamics for a Sustainable Future) - Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED), Cambridge, United Kingdom (website).
- September 12th-15th, 2023 - 13th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC 2023), Kyoto, Japan (website).
- September 12th-15th, 2023 - XX Technical Dam Control International Conference, Chorzów, Poland (website).
- September 12th-14th, 2023 - 10th Eurosteel conference - Technical University of Delft, Civil Engineering and Geosciences + ETH Zurich – IBK Institute of Structural Engineering, Amsterdam, Netherlands (website).
- September 5th-8th, 2023 - 12th ICOLD European Club Symposium - International Commission of Large Dams (ICOLD)), Interlaken, Switzerland (website).
- September 3rd-7th, 2023 - 15th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC2023), Bilbao, Spain (website).
- September 3rd-6th, 2023 - 8th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-Porto 2023) - International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), Porto, Portugal (website).
- August 30th-September 1st, 2023 - 10th edition of the International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES 2023) - Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy (website).
- July 16th-21st, 2023 - 43rd International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2023) - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), Pasadena, California, United States (website).
- July 10th-12th, 2023 - 4th International Conference and Exhibition - Water Storage and Hydropower Development for Africa - International Commission of Large Dams (ICOLD) + Aqua-Media International Ltd (The International Journal on Hydropower and Dams), Lake Victoria, Uganda (website).
- July 2nd-5th, 2023 - XII International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2023) - European Association for Structural Dynamics (EASD), Delft, Netherlands (website).
- June 12th-15th, 2023 - 91st ICOLD Annual Meeting (ICOLD-CIGB 2023) - International Commission of Large Dams (ICOLD), Gothenburg, Sweden (website).
- June 12th-14th, 2023 - 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2023) - Institute of Research and Development for Computational Methods in Engineering Sciences (ICMES), Athens, Greece (website).
- October 17th-19th, 2022 - CDA Annual Conference (Canadian Dam Association), St. John's, Newfoundland (website).
- October 2nd-5th, 2022 - Geocalgary 2022 (Canadian Geotechnical Society), Calgary, Alberta (website).
- September 15th-18th, 2022 - Défi Structure-al, student competition, Montréal, Québec (more information available at this website).
- July 19th-22nd, 2022 - 11th International Conference on short and medium span bridges, Calgary, Alberta (website).
- July 7th-8th, 2022 - 2nd Eurasian OpenSees Days Conference (EOSD 2022), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy (website).
- June 27th-July 1st, 2022 - 12NCEE (12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering), Salt Lake City, Utah (website).
- May 27th-June 3rd, 2022 - 27th ICOLD Congress (International Commission on Large Dams), Marseille, France (website).
- May 25th-28th, 2022 - CSCE Annual Conference (Canadian Society for Civil Engineering), Whistler, British Columbia (website).
- May 25th-27th, 2022 - STESSA 2022 (10th International Conference on the behaviour of steel structures in seismic areas), Timisoara, Romania (website).
- Wednesday, April 20th, 2022, 6:00 pm - Hybrid conference (virtual and in person at ÉTS) organized by Montréal Structural Engineers (website): Pont Champlain d’origine – Le génie au service de la déconstruction, presented by Sébastien Réau and Simon Hébert.
- Thursday, April 14th, 2022, 12:00 pm (noon) - Webinar organized by Canadian Dam Association (website): Geotechnical construction in a permafrost environment, presented by Thomas Lépine.
- Wednesday, April 6th, 2022, 3:00 pm - Webinar organized by Canadian Association of Earthquake Engineering - CAEE (website): Hazards to engineering structures from induced seismicity, presented by Gail M. Atkinson.
- Wednesday, March 16th, 2022, 6:00 pm - Teleconference organized by Montréal Structural Engineers (website): Adoption du CNB 2015 modifié Québec : Rehaussement parasismique et résistance au feu des structures en bois massif, presented by Marc-André Langevin.
- Tuesday, March 15th, 2022, 12:00 pm (noon) - Webinar organized by Canadian Dam Association (website): Seepage Management & Internal Erosion Mitigation and Repair in Water Dams, presented by Alistair James and Damien Engelbrecht.
- Thursday, March 10th, 2022, 12:00 pm (noon) - Webinar organized by Canadian Dam Association (website): L’intelligence artificielle au service de la détection d’anomalies sur les barrages, presented by James-A. Goulet.
- Thursday, February 19th, 2022, 12:00 pm (noon) - Webinar organized by Canadian Dam Association (website): Dam Inspection and Surveillance – Exploration into best practices and current state-of-the-art methods and technologies, presented by Andrew Szojka, Allen Veenland, Pierre Choquet and Savanna Herman.
- Wednesday, February 16th, 2022, 12:00 pm (noon) - Teleconference organized by Montréal Structural Engineers (website): HOHO Vienna – The World’s Tallest Wooden Tower (24 storeys), presented by Richard Woschitz.
- Wednesday, February 9th, 3:00 pm - Teleconference organized by the Canadian Association of Earthquake Engineering (website): Seismic behaviour and design of modern masonry buildings: current status and future needs, presented by Svetlana Brzev.
- Wednesday, January 19th, 2022, 6:00 pm - Teleconference organized by Montréal Structural Engineers (website): The Las Vegas Dome – A wonder of technology in Las Vegas, presented by Tarana Haque.
- Wednesday, January 19th, 2022, 12:00 pm (noon) - Webinar organized by Canadian Dam Association (website): From Levels to Drones - Current Practice, Challenges and Potential Solutions of Modern Engineering Surveys and Deformation Monitoring of Dams, presented by Nathan Kroeker and James Deschamps.
- Thursday, December 16th, 2021, 1:00 pm - Webinar organized by Canadian Dam Association: Risk Informed Decision Making, presented by Stephen Rigbey and Richard Donnelly.
- Wednesday, December 1st, 2021, 3:00 pm - Webinar organized by Canadian Association of Earthquake Engineering: Displacement Based Design of Structures, presented by Professors Mervyn J. Kowalsky and Christopher W. Clark.
- Wednesday, November 17th, 2021, 6:00 pm - Teleconference organized by Montréal Structural Engineers: Fast + Epp's new mass timber four-story home office in Vancouver, presented by Tobias Fast.