Welcome to RockEng 2020!
The Canadian Rock Mechanics Association (CARMA) invites you to the RockEng2020 Symposium, which is the 22nd Canadian Rock Mechanics Symposium. RockEng2020 will be held at the Isabel Bader Centre at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It was originally scheduled from Sunday August 16 to Tuesday August 18, 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have postponed the Symposium to August 2021. Please stay tuned for exact dates to be announced in June 2020!
Following the lead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the name of the Symposium will remain RockEng2020.
The theme of RockEng2020 is Canadian Strengths and Future Directions in Rock Mechanics. This will be a two-day, single-stream symposium featuring approximately 36 invited presentations by the best Canadian current stars in rock mechanics from academia and industry. This event aims to be the catalyst for initiating a cycle of future open-submission RockEng conferences, bringing back the quality and energy of past RockEng and other Canadian Rock Mechanics events.
RockEng2020 is intended to be a celebration of Canadian excellence in rock mechanics and a renewal of CARMA's stewardship and promotion of national meetings on rock mechanics. This event will bring together invited speakers highlighting the top current researchers and practitioners from the Canadian rock mechanics community to give overview presentations on past, ongoing, and future work, and will also accept abstract submissions for poster presentations. The Symposium will feature a site visit to the Brockville Tunnel, which is Canada's oldest rail tunnel. This event will be the 45th anniversary since the last CARMA symposium was held in Kingston.
Key Dates
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November 1, 2020: Registration opens
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December 1, 2020:
Abstracts due -
TBA: Notification of abstract acceptance
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TBA: Last day for early bird registration
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August 2021: Symposium
Organizing Committee
Dr. Jennifer Day
Symposium Chair
Assistant Professor
Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
Queen's University
Dr. Doug Milne
CARMA Executive
Professor
College of Engineering
University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Mark Diederichs
Technical Chair
Professor
Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
Queen's University
Dr. Mohsen Nicksiar
CARMA Executive
Geotechnical Operations Manager
SNC-Lavalin
Dr. Giovanni Grasselli
Professor
Civil Engineering
University of Toronto
Dr. Kathy Kalenchuk
President & Principal
Geomechanics Consultant
RockEng
Dr. Davide Elmo
Associate Professor
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
University of British Columbia
Brad Simser
Senior Ground Control Engineer
Glencore - Sudbury
Dr. Navid Bahrani
Assistant Professor
Civil & Resource Engineering
Dalhousie University