Note: Names are listed in alphabetical order

Organizers
Guido Gottardi, University of Bologna, Italy
Jie Han, University of Kansas, USA
Hoe I. Ling, Columbia University, USA
Fumio Tatsuoka, Tokyo University of Science, Japan.
(Immediate Past President of IGS, ISSMGE Past Vice President)
Organizer for Italian National Conference
Daniele Cazzuffi, CESI SpA, Milano, Italy.
(AGI-IGS President & IGS Past President)


Local Organizing Committee
Guido Gottardi (Chairman)
Laura Tonni (Secretary)
Daniela Boldini
Giovanni Castellazzi
Laura Govoni
Michela Marchi
Andrea Simone
Valeria Vignali

Advisory Committee
 Dimiter Alexiew, Huesker Synthetic GmbH, Germany
David Ash, Lock and Load, Canada
Nii Attoh-Okine, University of Delaware, USA
Stefano Aversa, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
Tim Bott, Allan Block, USA
Gerhard Braeu, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany
Luigi Callisto, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Joe Cavanaugh, Tensar International Corporation, USA
James G. Collin, The Collin Group, Ltd., USA
Montri Dechasakulsom, Highway Department, Thailand
Herve Di Benedetto, University of Lyon, France
Jerry A. DiMaggio, Strategic Highway Research Program SHRP 2, USA
Claudio di Prisco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Archie Filshill, CETCO Contracting Services, USA
 Erol Guler, Bogazici University, Turkey
Ching-Chuan Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Jeremy Hung, PB World, USA
Richard Jewell, Fugro GeoConsulting, Belgium
Victor Kaliakin, University of Delaware, USA
Toshinori Kawabata, Kobe University, Japan
Asaaf Klar, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Robert M. Koerner, GRI, Drexel University, USA
Martin Konecny, KB-BLOK System, s.r.o., Czech Republic
Junichi Koseki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ben Leshchinsky, Oregon State University, USA
Huabei Liu, City University of New York, USA
Chris Lawson, TenCate Geosynthetics Asia, Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Guy Marccozi, Duffield Associates Inc., USA
Michele Maugeri, University of Catania, Italy, and Past President of AGI-IGS
Yongli Min, URS Corporation, USA
Yoshiyuki Mohri, National Institute of Rural Engineering, Japan
Nicola Moraci, Universita Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Makoto Namba, TC 305
Arsenio Negro Jr., TC 305
Dan Ovadia, Amir Technologies Ltd., Israel
 Ahmet Pamuk, Florida State University, USA
Seong-Wan Park, Dankook University, Korea
Alexander Puzrin, ETH, Switzerland
Piergiorgio Recalcati, Tenax SpA, Italy
Pietro Rimoldi, Officine Maccaferri, Italy
Arik Rosen, Consulting Engineer, Israel
Dean Sandri, Anchor Wall, USA
Satoru Shibuya, Kobe University, Japan
Eun-Chul Shin, University of Incheon, Korea
Andrea Simone, University of Bologna, Italy
Laura Tonni, University of Bologna, Italy
Keizo Ugai, Gunma University, Japan
Farshid Vahedifard, Mississippi State University, USA
John Volk., Jr., URS Corporation, USA
Lars Vollmert, BBG Bauberatung Geokunststoffe GmbH & Co. KG
Kent P. von Maubeuge, NAUE GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Christina Vulova, URS Corporation, USA
Amie Wang, ACE Geosynthetics, Taiwan
Jui-Pin Wang, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Jonathan T.H. Wu, University of Colorado, USA
Min-Hao Wu, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Chungsik Yoo, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea
Allan M. Zarembski, Zeta-Tech, USA
Askar Zhusupbekov, Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan
Stacy Ziegler, Duffied Associates Inc., USA
Jorge G. Zornberg, University of Texas at Austin, USA, and President of IGS