Cupertino, California, January 27, 2007 ― The 17th (2007) Annual International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference ¾ ISOPE-2007 Lisbon, the world's largest program of its kind with peer-reviewed papers, will be held at Corinthia Lisboa Hotel, Lisbon (Lisboa), Portugal, July 1-6, 2007. All events and presentations will take place in this hotel. The International Society of Ocean and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) has arranged special group room rates: Hotel room reservation deadline is April 1, 3 months before the Conference.
Engineering Challenges Driven by the Navy and Navy after Next
Gruber, P L, Office of Naval Research, The Navy, USA
Subsea Development in the Ormen Lange Offshore Project
Eklund, T, Hydro Oil and Energy, Norway
Polar Rules: Are Harmonized Standards Good for Shipping?
Santos-Pedro, V, Transport Canada, Canada
East Siberian Pipeline: State and Development
Koff, GL, Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations/Rosstroy; Bekker, AT, Far-Eastern State Technical Univ, Russia
Eurocode 8 – Design for Earthquake Resistance of Foundations
Sêco e Pinto, P S, Univ of Coimbra, /LNEC, Portugal
Meeting the latest Pipeline Application Challenges
Eric J. Wright, ExxonMobil Development Company, Houston, USA
Seabed Characterisation and Models for Pipeline and Riser Interaction
Randolph, M F, White, D J, Univ of Western Australia, Australia
Advanced Technologies for Cruising AUV “URASHIMA”
Aoki, T, Tsukioka, S, Hyakudome, T, Ishibashi, S, Yoshida, H, Sawa, T, Ishikawa, A, Tahara, J, Yamamoto, I, Ohkusu, M, JAMSTEC, Japan
Yukio Ueda, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Offshore Wind Energy in Europe – Actual Situation and Future Developments
Faber, T, Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services, Germany
Dredging Technology and the Environment in Europe
van Impe, W F, Ghent Univ, Belgium
New Developments in Predicting Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials
A. K. Vasudevan, A K, Office of Naval Research, The Navy, USA
More updates on presentations will follow.
ISOPE’s Technical Program Committee (TPC) has organized some 120 sessions of high-level refereed papers in cooperation with 26 international organizations. The authors represent over 48 countries.
The ISOPE-2007 TPC selected from over 930 abstracts, a new ISOPE record for manuscript review. The final revised papers will be printed in the conference and/or symposium proceedings.
The technical program also includes three ISOPE symposia:
· The 5th ISOPE HPM Symposium: Nanomaterials for Structural Applications – NANOS-2007: 9 sessions
· The 1st ISOPE Strain-Base Design Symposium – SBD-2007: 8 sessions
· The 7th ISOPE Ocean Mining Symposium -– OMS-2007: 8 sessions
Details of these and other sessions, as well as the technical programs, advance registration form and hotel reservation form on www.isope.org
By ISOPE-2007 Technical Program Committee (TPC): meetings@isope.org; www.isope.org