Gordon Research Conference: "Modeling of Flow in
Permeable Media"
August 4-9, 1996
Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire
Conference Information and
Registration
The Gordon Research Conference on Modeling of Flow in Permeable Media will be held August
4-9, 1996, at Proctor Academy in Andover, New Hampshire. The conference begins with dinner
on Sunday August 4, followed by the first technical session on Sunday evening. The last technical
session will be held Thursday evening, and the conference officially ends after breakfast on Friday.
The conference is limited to 135 participants, and participation is by admission only. An
application for admission may be obtained by contacting the Gordon Research Conferences
offices at the Gordon Research Center, University of Rhode Island, P.O. Box 984, West
Kingston, RI, 02892-0984, Phone: (401) 783-4011, Fax: (401) 783-7644, Email:
grc@grcmail.grc.uri.edu. An electronic application form may also be
used; to apply
electronically, simply use the hyperlink provided (electronic application
form), fill in all of the relevant boxes, and click on the
"submit application" button. The application information will be sent
automatically to the Gordon Conference offices.
A text file of the
application form is also available. This text file may be saved to your
local computer, then used for email submission of the application to the
Gordon Conference offices.
The application must be sent to the GRC offices, not to the conference
organizers
Overview of the Conference
The GRC on Modeling of Flow in Porous Media is a bi-annual conference focusing on the latest
research on flow and transport in porous media. The conference provides an important forum for
interactions between hydrologists, petroleum engineers, soil scientists, geologists, physicists, and
applied mathematicians. In the spirit of the Gordon Conference series, the meeting format is
designed to encourage and foster in-depth discussions and interactions throughout the conference.
Morning and evening lectures are complemented by poster sessions and ample time for informal
discussions.
Conference Organizing Committee
The organizing committee includes the following individuals:
Michael A. Celia (Chair), Water Resources Program, Department of Civil Engineering
and
Operations Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA. Phone: (609) 258-5425,
Fax: (609) 258-2799, email: celia@karst.princeton.edu.
Thomas Hewett (Vice Chair), Petroleum Engineering Department, Stanford University,
Room
096, Green Earth Sciences Building, Stanford, CA 94305 USA. Phone: (415) 723-9476, Fax:
(415) 725-2099, email: hewett@pangea.stanford.edu.
Wolfgang Kinzelbach, Institut fur Umweltphysik, Universitat Heidelberg, Im
Neuenheimer Feld
366, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany. Phone: (49) 6221-563352, Fax: (49) 6221-563405, email:
kin@uphys1.uphys.uni-heidelberg.de.
Peter King, BP Exploration Operating Company Limited, Exploration Technology
Provision,
Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW16 7LN, United Kingdom. Phone: (44)
932-763492, Fax: (44) 932-764639, email: kingp@rcsv3.dnet.bp.com.
Linda Abriola, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of
Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125. Phone: (313) 763-2275, Fax: (313) 763-2275, email:
abriola@umich.edu.
William Rossen, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University
of
Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1061. Phone: (512) 471-3246, email:
william_rossen@utpe.pe.utexas.edu.
Conference Program
The speaker list is given below. Poster sessions will be held daily, Monday through Thursday, in
the late afternoons and again in the late evening following the evening lectures. All participants
are encouraged to submit a poster abstract.
Sunday Evening: "New Technologies" (Chair: F. Orr)
Speakers: D. Mackay (U. of Waterloo), G. Pope (U. of Texas at Austin)
Monday Morning:" Small-scale Processes" (Chair: L. Ferrand)
Speakers: C. Montemagno (Cornell U.), K. Mohanty (U. of Houston), J.
Zacchara (Battelle Pacific
NW Labs)
Monday Evening: "Porous Media Structure" (Chair: W. Rossen)
Speakers: K. Thompson (Louisiana State U.), J. Lewis (Herriot Watt U.)
Tuesday Morning: "Scaling" (Chair: M. Blunt)
Speakers: W. Kinzelbach (U. of Heidelberg), M. Christie (BP Exploration), S.
Neuman (U. of
Arizona)
Tuesday Evening: "Biogeochemistry" (Chair: C. Miller)
Speakers: R. Harvey (U.S. Geological Survey), S. Rao (U. of Florida)
Wednesday Morning: "Geologic Modeling and Field Studies" (Chair: J.
Jennings)
Speakers: P. Meakins (U. of Oslo), J. Long (Lawrence Berkeley Labs.), A.
Pulham (U. of
Colorado)
Wednesday Evening: "Unsaturated-Zone Processes" (Chair: M. Th. van
Genuchten)
Speakers: R. Glass (Sandia National Labs.), H. Fluehler (ETH)
Thursday Morning: "Numerical Modeling" (Chair: M. Wheeler)
Speakers: E. Sudicky (U. of Waterloo), J. Trangenstein (Duke U.), J. Yeomans
(Oxford U.)
Thursday Evening: "Parameter Estimation and Uncertainty" (Chair: M. King)
Speakers: A. Datta-Gupta (Texas A&M U.), D. McLaughlin (M.I.T.)
Submission of Poster Abstracts
Poster sessions will be held daily, Monday through Thursday, in the late afternoon and again in
the late evening following the evening lectures. Poster sessions are an important part of the
conference, providing a forum for discussions and exchanges of ideas. To present a poster at the
conference, an abstract of approximately 300 words should be submitted to the conference chair
by April 30, 1996. Electronic submission is preferred (send to celia@karst.princeton.edu). When
submitting a poster abstract, the session of lectures with which the poster is most closely aligned
may be listed. In that case, every effort will be made to schedule the poster presentation on the
same day as the corresponding oral session.
Conference Cost
Registration fee for the conference is $565. for a single room and $515 (per
person) for a double room. This fee includes admission to the conference,
accommodations at Proctor Academy, and all meals, beginning with dinner on
Sunday August 4 and ending with breakfast on Friday August 9. The fee for
participants who reside off-site is $435. Fees for guests (not participating
in the conference) are $415 for a single room and $365 for a double room.
This document was prepared by:
Michael A. Celia, Water Resources Program, Dept. Of Civil Engineering and Operations
Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA. Phone: (609) 258-5425, Fax: (609)
258-2799, email: celia@karst.princeton.edu