BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Stepped Spillways (Hydraulics) - 22 Years On DTSTART:20131127T171500 DTEND:20131127T180000 DTSTAMP:20260509T111034Z UID:aca4a4689e8795e1c4fc87250478df69e9398d80fd170498eb2480e7 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Prof. Hubert Chanson\, University of Queensland\, Brisbane\, A ustralia\nBio: Hubert Chanson is a Professor in hydraulic engineering and applied fluid mechanics at the University of Queensland since 1990. He rec eived a degree of 'Ingénieur Hydraulicien' from the Ecole Nationale Supé rieure d'Hydraulique et de Mécanique de Grenoble (France) in 1983 and a d egree of 'Ingénieur Génie Atomique' from the 'Institut National des Scie nces et Techniques Nucléaires' in 1984. He worked for the industry in Fra nce as a R&D engineer at the Atomic Energy Commission from 1984 to 1986\, and as a computer professional in fluid mechanics for Thomson-CSF between 1989 and 1990. From 1986 to 1988\, he studied at the University of Canterb ury (New Zealand) as part of a Ph.D. project.\nThe International Associati on for Hydraulic engineering and Research (IAHR) presented Hubert Chanson the 13th Arthur Ippen award for outstanding achievements in hydraulic engi neering. This award is regarded as the highest achievement in hydraulic re search. The American Society of Civil Engineers\, Environmental and Water Resources Institute (ASCE-EWRI) presented him with the 2004 award for the best practice paper in the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering ("Energy Dissipation and Air Entrainment in Stepped Storm Waterway" by Cha nson and Toombes 2002). In 1999 he was awarded a Doctor of Engineering fro m the University of Queensland for outstanding research achievements in ga s-liquid bubbly flows. He has been awarded seven travel fellowships from t he Australian Academy of Science. In 1995 he was a Visiting Associate Prof essor at National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan R.O.C.). He was Visiting R esearch Fellow at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) in 1999\, 200 1 and 2008. In 2004\, he was a Visiting Professorial Fellow at Université de Bretagne Occidentale (France)\, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (France) and at McGill Univ ersity (Canada). In 2008 and 2010\, he was an invited Professor at the Uni versité de Bordeaux\, Laboratoire des Transferts\, Ecoulements\, Fluides\ , et Energetique.\nHubert Chanson was invited to deliver numerous keynote lectures since 1998\, in Australia\, Asia\, America and Europe. He gave a number of invited lectures and seminar\, and he lectured several short cou rses in Australia and overseas (e.g. Taiwan\, Japan\, Italy).\nHubert CHAN SON chaired the Organisation of the 34th IAHR World Congress in Brisbane\, Australia in June 2011 which attracted over 820 participants from more th an 45 countries.\nStepped spillways are used since more than 3\,000 years. With the introduction of new construction materials (e.g. RCC\, PVD coast ed gabions)\, the stepped spillway design has regained some interest. The steps increase significantly the rate of energy dissipation taking place a long the chute\, thus reducing the size of the required downstream energy dissipation basin. Stepped cascades are used also for in-stream re-aeratio n and in water treatment plants to enhance the air-water transfer of atmos pheric gases and of volatile organic components. LOCATION:GC C 330 http://plan.epfl.ch/?zoom=19&recenter_y=5864214.51967&re center_x=730902.15996&layerNodes=fonds\,batiments\,labels\,information\,pa rkings_publics\,arrets_metro&floor=3&q=GC_c%20330 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR