Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Freeze, Thaw and Flow
Discussion Leader: Shima Parsa (Rochester Institute of Technology, United States)
3:15 pm - 3:20 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
3:20 pm - 3:40 pm
Robert Style (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"Watching How Ice Breaks Stuff"
3:40 pm - 3:45 pm
Discussion
3:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Adrian Moure (California Institute of Technology, United States)
"Preferential Meltwater Infiltration and Refreezing: A Multiphase Model"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Life in Porous Media
Discussion Leader: Yaniv Edery (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Felix Meigel (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany)
"Robust Increase in Supply by Vessel Dilation in Globally Coupled Microvasculature"
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm
Discussion
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm
Alexandra Vallet (University of Oslo, Norway)
"Transport Around a Pulsating Cerebral Blood Vessel"
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm
Discussion
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm
Ankur Bordoloi (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Transport of Colloids and Bacteria in Complex Porous Media"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Dorothee Kurz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Mechanisms Driving Intermittency in Preferential Flow Paths in Porous Media Biofilms"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm
Olivier Vincent (National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France), France)
"Response of (Plant-Like) Nanoporous Media to Humidity"
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm
Mamta Jotkar (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
"Can the Presence of Local Salt Gradients at Microscale Impact the Macroscopic Transport of Colloids in a Porous Medium?"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Geophysical Flows Across the Scales
Discussion Leader: Yu Jing (UNSW, Australia)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Roi Roded (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Formation of Karstic Cave Systems by Reactive Hydrothermal Flows - Theory and Field Observations"
9:10 am - 9:15 am
Discussion
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Gaute Linga (PoreLab, The Njord Centre, University of Oslo, Norway)
"Chaotic Mixing in Intermittent Two-Phase Porous Media Flows"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Oliver Paulin (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Formation and Collapse of Gas Cavities in a Soft Porous Medium"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Lucy Auton (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"A Homogenized Model for Dispersive Transport and Sorption in a Heterogeneous Porous Medium"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Alon Nissan (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"Micro-Scale Processes Drive Future Rise in Global Soil Heterotrophic Respiration"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Nele Wenck (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"The Impact of Capillary Heterogeneity on CO2 Plume Migration at the Endurance CCS Target Site in the UK – A Core To Field Scale Study"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Anna-Maria Eckel (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Three-Dimensional Imaging of Density-Driven Convection in Consolidated Rock Samples Using X-Ray CT Scanning"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 10:55 am
Zaid Jangda (Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom)
"3D Visualization of Hydrogen Storage in Sandstones at Reservoir Conditions"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Paths in Academia and Industry
Discussion Leader: Kejian Wu (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Ying Gao (Shell Global Solutions International B.V., The Netherlands)
"Career Paths in Industry"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Eleonora Secchi (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Career Paths in Academia"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes