Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Date: Monday, 25/Nov/2024
10:00am - 10:30amOpening ceremony
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany
Session Chair: Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Germany
Opening speech of the 9th ClayConference 2024, Hannover: Sybille Schultz-Hüskes; Vice-President, BASE
Welcoming address of the BGE > Iris Graffunder; Chair of the Managing Board, BGE
Welcoming address of the BGR > Ralph Watzel; President of the BGR
10:30am - 12:00pmPlenary #1: National Case Studies
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France
Session Chair: Maarten Van Geet, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium
Invited Keynote: Irina Gaus (Nagra, Switzerland) "Optimisation of Clay based Repository Concepts_from site selection to operations"
12:00pm - 12:30pm2 min poster presentation #1
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Date: Tuesday, 26/Nov/2024
8:30am - 10:00amPlenary #2: Geochemistry
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Thorsten Schäfer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Session Chair: Erika Anne Cornelia Neeft, COVRA, Netherlands, The
10:30am - 12:00pmPlenary #3: High temperature effects
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Irina Gaus, Nagra, Switzerland
Session Chair: Reiner Dohrmann, LBEG, Germany
Invited Keynote: Liange Zheng (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America) "Understanding bentonite buffer under high temperature: modeling and tests"
12:00pm - 12:30pm2 min poster presentation #2
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Date: Wednesday, 27/Nov/2024
8:30am - 10:00amPlenary #4: Gas
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Maarten Van Geet, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium
Session Chair: Simon Norris, Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom
10:30am - 12:00pmPlenary #5: Competence building and transfer
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Juan Carlos Mayor, Enresa, Spain
Session Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany
Invited Keynote: Christophe Bruggeman (Belgian Nuclear Research Center) "Competence building in the frame of radioactive waste management: challenges and expectations"
12:00pm - 12:30pm2 min poster presentation #3
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Date: Thursday, 28/Nov/2024
8:30am - 10:00amPlenary #6: Technology
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Christophe Nussbaum, swisstopo, Switzerland
Session Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France
Invited Keynote: Thomas Lautsch (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung, Germany) "KONRAD REPOSITORY - GROUND-CONTROL IN CHALLENGING CLAY STRATA"
10:30am - 11:40amPlenary #7: Machine learning
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Olaf Kolditz, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH UFZ, Germany
Session Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France
11:40am - 12:30pmClosing ceremony (awards)
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany
Session Chair: Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Germany
Conclusion by Dr. Thomas Lautsch (BGE); Panel discussion and Awarding of the poster prizes
Conclusion by Dr. Thomas Lautsch (BGE)

Panel discussion with Astrid Göbel (BGE, DE), Johanna Lippmann-Pipke (BGR, DE), Erika Neeft (COVRA, NL), Maarten Van Geet (ONDRAF/NIRAS, BE), Stéphan Schumacher (ANDRA, FR), Patrik Sellin (SKB, SE)

Awarding of the poster prizes

Handover to the next conference organisers

Closing of the conference