Themes:

1. Water and Environment

Weather and climate analysis, coastal engineering and coastal zone management, wave and harbour processes, wave-structure interaction, tsunami and storm surge hydrodynamic, coastal hazard analysis and assessment, coastal sediment transport and morphological evolution, wave-current boundary layers, flow and sediment dynamics in rivers and channels, system dynamics in water resources management, reservoir water quality modeling, flood modeling, application of soft computing techniques in water management, sediment transport with non-uniform sediments, catchment erosion, performance of berm and reef breakwaters, dam safety and emergency action plan, water and wastewater treatment, material development for advance water treatment processes, water quality and water safety, waste and landfill monitoring, waste and wastewater characterization, and adsorbent material characterization

2. Structures and Materials

Engineering mechanics and materials, shear behaviour of concrete structures, structural retrofitting, non-linear simulation of concrete structures, temperature modelling of concrete, time-dependent behaviour of concrete, non-structural cracking of concrete, earthquake-resistant design and analysis of structures, precast/prestressed structural systems, self-centering structures, seismic pounding of structures, structural fire engineering, Chemistry and microstructure of concrete, design of customized bone implants, mechanics of nanostructures, nano-technology and application in concrete, numerical modeling of chemical processes/reaction kinetics of cementitious material, use of sustainable concrete materials such as slag, fly ash, silica fume, recycled aggregate, geopolymer, etc., performance of concrete, synthesize and formulate low CO2 footprint concrete material, chemical admixtures for concrete, structural health monitoring, structural failures, stress analysis, fatigue of metals, earthquake engineering, blast resistant structures, ferro-cement, ground penetration radar, corrosion of steel structures

3. Geotechnical and Transportation

Soil improvement chemical stabilization, alkali activated Geopolymers as borehole well cement, mechanical integrity of well cement, mechanical method of ground improvement, feasibility of using pozzolanic materials (fly ash, silica fume, etc.) for geotechncial applications, geotechnical characteristics and modelling of municipal solid waste dump sites, shear strength characteristics and degradation of ballast in railroads, use of geomats for reinforcing earth, soil-gas diffusivity measurements and modeling in differently-characterized soils, diffusivity-based characterization of porous media for earth and space-based applications, and modeling multiphase transport of multicomponent gases in heterogeneous porous media, highway pavement behaviours, pedestrians’ safety and behaviors, efficiency of transport modes, Mode choice analysis, GIS applications for land use changes and other engineering applications