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SUMMARY:One hour with NGI (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute): ‘Inside NG
 I’ and ‘Assessing Risk - what can it tell us’ - Dr Lars Andresen (Ma
 naging Director\, NGI) and Professor Dr Suzanne Lacasse (Technical Directo
 r\, NGI)
DTSTART:20170316T190000Z
DTEND:20170316T200000Z
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CONTACT:Stefan Ritter
DESCRIPTION:Seminar overview:\n\nThis seminar is divided into two parts: (
 1) ‘Inside NGI’ by Dr Lars Andresen and (2) ‘Assessing Risk – what
  can it tell us’ by Professor Dr Suzanne Lacasse.\n\n(1) NGI was establi
 shed in 1953 and is today a leading international centre for research\, te
 chnology development and expert consulting within geotechnical engineering
 . With about 260 employees working from Oslo\, Trondheim\, Houston and Per
 th it is also one of the larger geotechnical specialist companies. Working
  at NGI means working in a truly international environment with colleagues
  from more than 35 different countries. NGI receives yearly more than 1000
  job applications from all around the world. Why is NGI attractive for the
  geotechnical engineer and how is it to work at NGI? In this talk Dr Andre
 sen will share some of the secrets of NGI and present NGI employees in pro
 ject work\, research work and in social settings.\n\n(2) More and more\, s
 ociety requires to know the risk to which people\, property and the enviro
 nment are exposed. The geotechnical engineer/engineering geologist should 
 increasingly aim at reducing exposure to threats\, reducing risk and prote
 cting people. Hazard\, risk and reliability assessments can assist in desi
 gn and decision-making in civil engineering. The lecture presents "real li
 fe" case studies where hazard\, vulnerability and risk assessments have be
 nefited society. In the examples\, specific engineering questions had to b
 e answered\, and risk and reliability applications provided insight for in
 formed decision-making. The examples come from slope stability assessment\
 , dam design and offshore geotechnical engineering\, where the geotechnica
 l engineer’s role is to take an active part in the evaluation of hazard\
 , vulnerability and risk.\n\nBiography:\n\nDr Lars Andresen:\nDr Andresen 
 has expertise within numerical and constitutive modelling for a broad rang
 e of geomechanical problems.  He has 20 years of experience working as a c
 onsultant and researcher at NGI. Projects have included design of anchors 
 and foundations for offshore structures\, design of support systems for de
 ep excavations in soft soil\, analysis of progressive failure and localisa
 tion of sensitive clay\, and analysis of tailing dams. Since 2007 he has b
 een in the management group of NGI and since January 1st 2012 NGI’s Mana
 ging Director.\n\nProfessor Dr Suzanne Lacasse:\nDr Lacasse graduated from
  the University of Ottawa\, Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and holds a Ph
 D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She taught at MIT 
 and headed the soil mechanics laboratory for several years before moving t
 o NGI where she became NGI Managing Director in 1991. Her expertise includ
 e geotechnical engineering and hazard and risk assessment and management. 
 Since 2014\, she has been an Honorary Professor at Zhejiang University in 
 China. Dr Lacasse has published over 300 papers to scientific journals and
  conferences. She is the first woman awarded the Rankine Lecture (2015) an
 d gave the Terzaghi Oration (2013) and the Terzaghi Lecture (2001).
LOCATION:Keynes Hall\, King's College
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