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Lassonde Institute Colloquia are presented by invited distinguished scholars and researchers. If you would like to be notified of the time of the next colloquium please send your contact details to mineng@ecf.utoronto.ca.
| Presenter's Name | Affiliation | Date | Title |
| Phil de Graaf | Rio Tinto, Australia | Sep 27, 2011 | Risk Based Geotechnical Slope Reconciliation |
| Chun'an Tang |
Dalian University |
June 17 2011 |
Rock Failure Process Analysis: Modeling and Monitoring |
| Erik Eberhardt | University of British Columbia | Mar 2 2011 | Impacts of Underground Mass Mining on Surface: Lessons Learned from the Palabora Cave-Pit Interaction Study |
| Lars Jacobsson | SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden | Sep 24 2010 | Spalling in Hard Rock |
| Dan Masterson | Chevron Inc. | Nov 3 2009 | Ice Loads in the Beaufort Sea: From Start to an International Standard |
| Dr. Luc Vandamme | Xstrata Zinc Canada | Oct 27 2009 | Six Sigma in the Mining Industry: An Overview |
| Professor Charles Fairhurst | University of Minnesota | Sep 21 2009 | Scale Effects in Rock |
| Harry G. Poulos | Coffey Geotechnics | Mar 10 2009 | Effects of Urban Construction on Existing Pile Foundations |
| Professor John Atkinson | City University, London | Feb 17 2009 | What is Failure and Why Do Failures Occur? |
| Matthew Pierce | Itasca Consulting Group | Jan 20 2009 | The Mechanics of Caving in Jointed Rock |
| Sergio Vinciguerra | INGV | Dec 8 2008 | Dealing With Active Volcanoes: The INGV Experience |
| Dr. Timothy Niebauer | Micro g Lacoste | Nov 26 2008 | Listening to Earthquakes with Gravity: The gPhone |
| Dr. Steve Hall | Laurentian University | Sep 22 2008 | Biomining: The Future of the Mining Industry? |
| Fereidoun Rezanezhad | Wilfred Laurier University | June 18 2008 | Application of 3D-Micro CT Scanning to Understand the Behaviour of Geomaterials |
| Giovanni Cascante | University of Waterloo | April 30 2008 | NDT For the Evaluation of Civil Infrastructure: Using Subsurface Waves |
| Professor Berndt Milkereit | University of Toronto | April 16 2008 | Geophysical Imaging of a Blind Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit |
| Maurice Dusseault | University of Waterloo | April 4 2008 | Halite: Mechanical Behaviour and Engineering Design |
| Professor M King | Imperial College London UK | Dec 5 2007 | Recent Development in Seismic Rock Physics |
| Professor A Munjiza | Queen Mary University of London UK | Nov 7 2007 | Development of Open Source FED/DEM Simulation Tools |
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Professor Philip Meredith |
University College, London, UK |
Dec 2 2005 |
CREEP: Long-term time-dependent rock deformation in the laboratory and in a deep-sea observatory |
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Dr. Sergio Vinciguerra |
INGV Rome |
Dec 2 2005 |
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Professor Michael King |
Department of Earth Science & Engineering |
Oct 31, 2005 |
A personal 50-year perspective of rock physics developments in seismic exploration |
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Professor Yves Guéguen |
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris |
Oct 21, 2005 | |
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Dr. Pablo Segarra |
Polytechnic University of Madrid |
Aug 18, 2005 |
A Practical Procedure for Measurement of Fragmentation in Rock Blasting |
| Dr. David Beck | Beck Arndt Engineering | Aug 25, 2005 | |
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Prof. Michael King |
Imperial College, London |
Apr 4, 2005 | |
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Dr. Robert Mercer |
Knight Piesold Consulting |
Mar 21, 2005 |
The Practical Interpretation of Mine Seismic Data - A Series of Case Studies |
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Dr. Agnes Helmstetter |
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, NYC |
Feb 2, 2005 |
Small and Large Earthquakes, Stress Transfers and Earthquake Triggering |
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Dr. Juan Reyes-Montes |
Liverpool University |
Dec 7, 2004 |
Enhanced Spatial Resolution of Microseismicity in the Investigation of In-Situ Crack Interaction and Coalescence |
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Dr. Jerome Fortin |
Laboratoire de Geologie, Ecole Normale Superieure |
Dec 7, 2004 |
Mechanical Compaction of Bleurswiller Sandstone: Elastic Wave Velocities and Permeability |
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Dr. Jim Hazzard |
Lassonde Institute |
Feb 11, 2004 |
Understanding induced seismicity with dynamic discontinuum models |
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Dr.Farzine Nasseri |
Lassonde Institute |
Jan 29, 2004 |
Anisotropic strength and deformational behavior of Himalayan schists |
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Dr. Alex Schubnel |
Lassonde Institute |
Nov 27, 2003 |
Elastic anisotropy and dispersion in rocks deforming in the brittle and cataclastic regimes |
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Prof. Will Bawden |
Lassonde Institute |
Nov 13, 2003 |
Mining of the shaft destress slot at Newmont's Golden Giant mine |
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Dr. Michael Samis |
Kuiseb Minerals Consulting |
Nov 6, 2003 | |
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Dr. Paul Simms |
Civil Engineering |
Oct 30, 2003 |
Topics in Unsaturated Soils |
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Lucas Goehring |
Physics | Oct 16, 2003 |
Fracture patterns and columnar jointing: What corn starch can teach us about rock |
