PRELIMINARY

MAY 15, THURSDAY

08:30 – 9:00 | Registration

09:00 – 09:30 | Opening Session

ISRM President (Seokwon Jeon, South Korea); ISRM VP for Europe (Muriel Gasc-Barbier, France); ISRM VP at Large (Kyoshi Kishida, Japan); IAEG President (Vassilis Marinos, Greece); ISRM Secretary-General (Luis Nolasco Lamas, Portugal); President ISRM NG China (He Manchao, China); President ISRM NG Portugal (Paulo da Venda Oliveira, Portugal); Director of Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (Rui Calçada, Portugal); President of ISRM Commission on Soft Rocks (Xiaoming Sun, China), and Chairman of the ISRM Workshop on Soft Rocks (Ribeiro e Sousa, Portugal).

09:30 – 11:00 | Submission of Communications

Presidency – Cristina Rodrigues (University Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola) and Xiaoming Sun (Mining University of Beijing, China).

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee-break

11:30 – 13:30 | Round Table on Concept and Classification of Soft Rocks in MIning Exploration

President – He Manchao (Mining University of Beijing, China).

Members – Costa Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal); Mostafa Sharifzadeh (Curtis University, Australia); Xiaoming Sun (Mining University of Beijing, China); Leandro Alejano (Vigo University, Spain); Giovanni Grasselli (Toronto University, Canada) and António Fiuza (University of Porto, Portugal).

13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 | Submission of Communications

Presidency – Leandro Alejano (University of Vigo, Spain) and Sebastiano Rampello (ISRM NG Italy President, Italy).

16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee-break

17:00 – 19:00 | Submission of Communications

Presidency – Paulo da Venda Oliveira (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Pingye Guo (Mining University of Beijing, China).

MAY 16, FRIDAY

09:00 – 11:00 | Submission of Communications

Presidency – Vassilis Marinos (University of Athens, Greece) and Lemos de Sousa (University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal).

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee-break

11:30 – 13:30 Submission of Communications

Presidency – Sérgio Fontoura (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and António Viana da Fonseca (University of Porto, Portugal).

13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 | Submission of Communications

Presidency – Pham Quoc Tuan (University of Hanoi, Vietnam) and Nahendra Sing (ISRM NG of India).

16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee-break

17:00 – 19:00 | Round Table on Stability Analysis, Monitoring and Control Technology of Soft-Rock Slopes

President – Seokwon Jeon (ISRM President, South Korea)

Members – Topa Gomes (University of Porto, Portugal); Muriel Gasc-Barbier (ISRM VP for Europe, France); Kyoshi Kishida (University of Kyoto, Japan), Conrad Felice (University of Florida, USA), Eurípedes Vargas Jr. (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Tiago Miranda (University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal).

19:00 – 24:00 | Conference Dinner

MAY 17, SATURDAY

10:00 – 13:00 | Technical Visit to Metro do Porto

Leaders – Jorge Quelhas (Metro of Porto, Portugal) and Luis Nolasco Lamas (LNEC, Lisbon, Portugal).