March 10, 2009 Pasadena, California, 8am to 5pm

This 1-day seminar, to be held in 4 different cities in March 2009, is based on the recently published EERI monograph. The speakers will be the monograph authors, Professor Emeritus I. M. Idriss and Professor R. W. Boulanger, both of the University of California Davis.

The seminar will provide a synthesis - in one accessible resource for students, practicing engineers, and other professionals - of progress in the study of soil liquefaction since 1982. The following areas are covered:

• fundamentals of liquefaction behavior;
  
• methods for predicting the triggering of liquefaction during earthquakes;
  
• methods for predicting the consequences of liquefaction, such as slope instability or ground deformations;
  
• mitigation of liquefaction hazards; and
  
• cyclic softening of clays and plastic silts.