UNDERGROUND MINING AND GROUNDCONTROL

❖   Exploration and Methods of Mining
❖   Planning & Design
❖   Shafts and Mining
❖   Ground Control Approaches & Methods and Subsidence
❖   Geophysical methods in Mining
❖   Ventilation management in mining, development headings
❖   Equipment management in tunnels
❖   High-speed materials movement through adits and declines
❖   Optimization in tunnel development
❖   Remote monitoring of excavation stability in mines
❖   Geomatics & Geospatial Information System (GIS) in Mining
❖   Hazard Analysis, Health & Safety and Sustainability
❖   New and Innovative Technologies

TUNNELLING AND CASE STUDIES

❖   Large Span Tunnels and Caverns
❖   Hard Rock TBMs and Tunnels
❖   Excavation in soft rocks
❖   Micro tunnelling & Trenchless Tunnelling
❖   Pressurized Face Tunnelling
❖   Drilling and Blasting in Tunnelling
❖   Geophysical methods in Tunnelling
❖   Rockbursts, Difficult Ground and Grouting
❖   Tunnelling support design
❖   Geotechnical Considerations
❖   Planning and Design, Prediction and Monitoring
❖   Geomatics & Geospatial Information System(GIS) in Mining
❖   Contract Practices
❖   Ground Control Approaches & Methods
❖   Tunnel Rehabilitation
❖   Project Planning and Risk Management
❖   Health & Safety and Sustainability
❖   New and Innovative Technologies

MINING GEOTECHNICS

❖   Ground Improvement, Ground Support and Final Lining
❖   Rock Mechanics, Slope Stability
❖   Support Design, Drilling and Blasting
❖   Physical modelling, Numerical modelling

LANDSLIDES

❖   Kyoto landslide commitment for sustainable development
❖   Remote sensing, monitoring and early warning
❖   Testing, modelling and mitigation techniques
❖   Mapping, hazard, risk assessment and management
❖   Climate change, extreme weather, earthquakes and landslide
❖   Progress in landslide science and applications
❖   Analytical methods, Coupled numerical methods
❖   Site and Laboratory Investigation

UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES AND CASE STUDIES

❖   Application of Big Data Analytics
❖   Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
❖   Metro Tunnels
❖   Nuclear Waste Repository
❖   Underground petroleum storage
❖   Underground food storage

RETAINING STRUCTURE, GROUND IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUE, CONTAMITANT REMEDIATION

❖    Earth Retaining Structures and Deep Excavations
❖   Soil Stabilization, Ground Improvement and Land Reclamation
❖   Development of Geomaterials
❖   Reutilization and Recycling of Industrial By-products
❖   Geo–Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Geotechnics
❖   Ground Contamination and its Immobilization
❖   Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering
❖   Geotechnical, Geological and Geophysical Investigation

ENERGY GEOTECHNICS

❖   Energy Geo-Storage & Geo-structures
❖   Urban Planning for Energy Geo-Systems
❖   Numerical Methods in Energy Geotechnics
❖   Experimental Studies in Energy Geotechnics
❖   THMC Behavior of Geomaterials
❖   Unsaturated Soil Mechanics in Energy Geotechnics
❖   Geoenvironmental Aspects of Energy Geotechnics
❖   Geochemistry in Energy Geotechnics
❖   Material Design in Energy Geotechnics
❖   Geosynthetics in Energy Applications
❖   Carbon Sequestration
❖   Gas Hydrate Sediments
❖   Shallow & Deep Subsurface Geothermal Systems
❖   Natural & Hydraulic Fractured Reservoirs
❖   Enhanced Oil Recovery
❖   Nuclear Waste Repository Design and Evaluation
❖   Geotechnical Challenges for Energy Infrastructure
❖   Oil Sediments / Tailings
❖   Intersections between Geology, Hydrology, Geophysics, and Energy Geotechnics
❖   Energy Policy Issues in Energy Geotechnics