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
Display list by clicking here
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.
Display list by clicking here
3:00pm
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6:00pm
Scientific support programme: Mini-lectures
Location: Blauer Saal
6:00pm
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8:00pm
Icebreaker + Registration
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
Date: Monday, 25/Nov/2024
8:30am
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10:00am
Registration
10:00am
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10:30am
Opening ceremony
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
10:30am
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12:00pm
Plenary #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
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12:30pm
2 min poster presentation #1
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm
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2:30pm
Poster exhibition #1
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm
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3:50pm
PS #1: EDZ related processes
Location: Roter Saal
PS #2: Bentonite stability
Location: Bonatz Saal
PS #3: Radionuclide diffusion and sorption
Location: Blauer Saal
3:50pm
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4:20pm
Coffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
4:20pm
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6:00pm
PS #4: Repository projects and programmes
Location: Roter Saal
PS #5: Geological setting and clay host rock
Location: Bonatz Saal
PS #6: Clay-iron/-cement interaction
Location: Blauer Saal
6:00pm
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8:00pm
Networking event / Get-together
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
Date: Tuesday, 26/Nov/2024
8:00am
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8:30am
Registration
8:30am
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10:00am
Plenary #2: Geochemistry
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
10:30am
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12:00pm
Plenary #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
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12:30pm
2 min poster presentation #2
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm
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2:30pm
Poster exhibition #2
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm
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3:50pm
PS #7: Mineralogical and hydrogeochemical characteristics
Location: Roter Saal
PS #8: THM heater experiments
Location: Bonatz Saal
PS #9: THM modelling
Location: Blauer Saal
3:50pm
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4:20pm
Coffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
4:20pm
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6:00pm
PS #10: Geochemistry and fluid migration
Location: Roter Saal
PS #11: THM bentonite
Location: Bonatz Saal
PS #12: Performance and uncertainty assessment
Location: Blauer Saal
6:00pm
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11:59pm
Conference dinner
Location: Hangar No. 5
Date: Wednesday, 27/Nov/2024
8:00am
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8:30am
Registration
8:30am
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10:00am
Plenary #4: Gas
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
10:30am
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12:00pm
Plenary #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
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12:30pm
2 min poster presentation #3
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm
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2:30pm
Poster exhibition #3
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm
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3:50pm
PS #13: HM Processes
Location: Roter Saal
PS #14: Colloid formation from bentonite
Location: Bonatz Saal
PS #15: Numerical tools for HMC processes
Location: Blauer Saal
3:50pm
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4:20pm
Coffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
4:20pm
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6:00pm
PS #16: (T)HM experiments
Location: Roter Saal
PS #17: Repository engineering
Location: Bonatz Saal
PS #18: Gas related processes
Location: Blauer Saal
Date: Thursday, 28/Nov/2024
8:00am
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8:30am
Registration
8:30am
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10:00am
Plenary #6: Technology
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Invited Keynote: Thomas Lautsch (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung, Germany) "KONRAD REPOSITORY - GROUND-CONTROL IN CHALLENGING CLAY STRATA"
10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
10:30am
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11:40am
Plenary #7: Machine learning
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
11:40am
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12:30pm
Closing ceremony (awards)
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Conclusion by Dr. Thomas Lautsch (BGE); Panel discussion and Awarding of the poster prizes
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm
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5:30pm
Scientific support programme: workshops, seminars
Location: BGR
Date: Friday, 29/Nov/2024
6:00am
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3:00pm
Exc. Konrad: Excursion to DGR Konrad
Location: DGR Konrad
Exc. Morsleben: Excursion to DGR Morsleben
Location: DGR Morsleben
9:00am
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12:30pm
Scientific support programme: technical visits
Location: BGR

 
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