Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
 
Session Overview
Date: Sunday, 24/Nov/2024
 List of all Posters
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
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The posters are on display every day! But they will be presented in three exhibition sessions. See below in the agenda for presenter slots "Poster exhibition..." one poster exhibition session on each conference day.

Staff will support presenters in attaching their posters to the boards on Sunday (during registration/icebreaker) and Monday morning. Posters not removed by Thursday end of lunch will be disposed of.
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3:00pm - 6:00pmScientific support programme: Mini-lectures
Location: Blauer Saal
6:00pm - 8:00pmIcebreaker + Registration
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
Date: Monday, 25/Nov/2024
8:30am - 10:00amRegistration
10:00am - 10:30amOpening ceremony
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
10:30am - 12:00pmPlenary #1: National Case Studies
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Invited Keynote: Irina Gaus (Nagra, Switzerland) "Optimisation of Clay based Repository Concepts_from site selection to operations"
12:00pm - 12:30pm2 min poster presentation #1
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm - 2:30pmPoster exhibition #1
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #1: EDZ related processes
Location: Roter Saal
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #2: Bentonite stability
Location: Bonatz Saal
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #3: Radionuclide diffusion and sorption
Location: Blauer Saal
3:50pm - 4:20pmCoffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #4: Repository projects and programmes
Location: Roter Saal
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #5: Geological setting and clay host rock
Location: Bonatz Saal
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #6: Clay-iron/-cement interaction
Location: Blauer Saal
6:00pm - 8:00pmNetworking event / Get-together
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
Date: Tuesday, 26/Nov/2024
8:00am - 8:30amRegistration
8:30am - 10:00amPlenary #2: Geochemistry
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
10:00am - 10:30amCoffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
10:30am - 12:00pmPlenary #3: High temperature effects
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Invited Keynote: Liange Zheng (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America) "Understanding bentonite buffer under high temperature: modeling and tests"
12:00pm - 12:30pm2 min poster presentation #2
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm - 2:30pmPoster exhibition #2
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #7: Mineralogical and hydrogeochemical characteristics
Location: Roter Saal
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #8: THM heater experiments
Location: Bonatz Saal
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #9: THM modelling
Location: Blauer Saal
3:50pm - 4:20pmCoffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #10: Geochemistry and fluid migration
Location: Roter Saal
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #11: THM bentonite
Location: Bonatz Saal
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #12: Performance and uncertainty assessment
Location: Blauer Saal
6:00pm - 11:59pmConference dinner
Location: Hangar No. 5
Date: Wednesday, 27/Nov/2024
8:00am - 8:30amRegistration
8:30am - 10:00amPlenary #4: Gas
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
10:00am - 10:30amCoffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
10:30am - 12:00pmPlenary #5: Competence building and transfer
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Invited Keynote: Christophe Bruggeman (Belgian Nuclear Research Center) "Competence building in the frame of radioactive waste management: challenges and expectations"
12:00pm - 12:30pm2 min poster presentation #3
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm - 2:30pmPoster exhibition #3
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #13: HM Processes
Location: Roter Saal
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #14: Colloid formation from bentonite
Location: Bonatz Saal
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #15: Numerical tools for HMC processes
Location: Blauer Saal
3:50pm - 4:20pmCoffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #16: (T)HM experiments
Location: Roter Saal
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #17: Repository engineering
Location: Bonatz Saal
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #18: Gas related processes
Location: Blauer Saal
Date: Thursday, 28/Nov/2024
8:00am - 8:30amRegistration
8:30am - 10:00amPlenary #6: Technology
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Invited Keynote: Thomas Lautsch (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung, Germany) "KONRAD REPOSITORY - GROUND-CONTROL IN CHALLENGING CLAY STRATA"
10:00am - 10:30amCoffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
10:30am - 11:40amPlenary #7: Machine learning
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
11:40am - 12:30pmClosing ceremony (awards)
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm - 5:30pmScientific support programme: workshops, seminars
Location: BGR
Date: Friday, 29/Nov/2024
6:00am - 3:00pmExc. Konrad: Excursion to DGR Konrad
Location: DGR Konrad
6:00am - 3:00pmExc. Morsleben: Excursion to DGR Morsleben
Location: DGR Morsleben
9:00am - 12:30pmScientific support programme: technical visits
Location: BGR