The V Annual Meeting program is available. The meeting will feature three invited speakers:

• Lluis Marsal (URV): Porous anodic alumina development and structural engineering.
• Pilar Bosch Roig (UPV): Nuevos tratamientos para proteger nuestro patrimonio cultural: Probióticos y antibióticos.
• Rubén Juanes (MIT): Fluids, fingers, fractures and fractals: Patterns in porous media. Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecture 2024.

There will also five contributed talks and a poster session. Check the details in the Meeting program.

About the meeting.

The annual meeting will take place in Valencia on November 18th, 2024 in the Red Cube of the Polytechnic City of Innovation, Technical University of Valencia. Check the brochure for more information (versión en castellano).

The organizing committee expresses its deepest condolences to all who have been victims of the last week heavy rainfall and flash floods. The committee has decided to maintain the date of the V Annual Meeting will not be postponed and it will take place on November 18th as planned.

About the meeting.

The annual meeting will take place in Valencia on November 18th, 2024 in the Red Cube of the Polytechnic City of Innovation, Technical University of Valencia. Check the brochure for more information (versión en castellano).

The registration for the V Annual meeting of the Spanish Chapter is open! The registration is free of charge. Please fill the registration form using the link below.

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Confirmed speakers.

About the meeting.

The annual meeting will take place in Valencia on November 18th, 2024 in the Red Cube of the Polytechnic City of Innovation, Technical University of Valencia. Check the brochure for more information (versión en castellano).

The V Annual meeting of the Spanish Chapter will meet in Valencia on November 18th, 2024 in the Red Cube of the Polytechnic City of Innovation, Technical University of Valencia. Registration will open next September 12th. Check the brochure for more information (versión en castellano).

Professor Ruben Juanes from MIT will deliver the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecture “Man-made Earthquakes and the Energy Transtion” at the ETSI Caminos, Canales y Puertos (Ciudad Universitaria), Technical University of Madrid, next April 15th at 13h in the Sala Torres Quevedo. Entry is free. No previous registration is required.

Man-made Earthquakes and the Energy Transtion

Abstract.
While the most devastating earthquakes are of tectonic origin, human activities have been associated with the triggering of earthquakes that have caused substantial economic damage and societal concern.  Critical gaps remain in our ability to understand and, more importantly, mitigate, the occurrence of induced earthquakes. This lecture will discuss some of Prof. Juanes work employing contrasting approaches to help fill these gaps : from minimal-ingredients spring-slider models that account for poroelasticity to sophisticated multiphysics computational models that integrate disparate datasets and have succeeded at setting management strategies that prevent earthquakes while allowing subsurface operations in a tectonically active field. 

Short bio.
Prof. Ruben Juanes is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.  He has an outstanding track record of achievements and contributions to the field of porous media research, by his commitment to excellence in education and mentoring and by his exceptional skills as lecturer and communicator. Ruben Juanes is a world-renowned expert in the field of multiphase flow in porous media. His research aims at advancing fundamental understanding and predictive capabilities of the simultaneous flow of two or more fluids through rocks, soils, and other porous materials. It combines theory, simulation, and experiments, to elucidate fundamental aspects of multiphase flow. His contributions provide fundamental understanding of natural phenomena and have the potential to radically advance the deployment of energy systems, which depend critically on multiphase flow processes.

The IV Annual Meeting program is available. The meeting will feature four invited speakers:

• Alfonso Rodriguez Dono (UPC): Modelling heterogeneous porous geomaterials
• Zuleyma T. Karpyn (PennState): Experimental investigation of gas storage capacity in ultratight rocks
• Silvia Lacorte (IDAEA): Muestreadores cerámicos pasivos para la medida de la contaminación en aguas
• Emilie Coene (Amphos21): Reactive Transport Modelling of Carbon Mineralization – a Machine Learning-based approach

There will also six contributed talks and a poster session. Check the details in the Meeting program.

The IV annual meeting will take place in Barcelona on the 20th of November, 2023 at DFactory with the collaboration of AMPHOS21.

To attend the meeting, register in the meeting using the following form: Registration
Find out more about the meeting in the brochure (versión en castellano).

The talks from the III Annual meeting of the Spanish Chapter of InterPore are now available in our YouTube channel.

Featured talks:

• Carolina Guardiola-Albert (IGME): Subsidencia por explotación de aguas subterráneas en el acuífero detrítico de Madrid.
• Jaime Gomez-Hernandez (UPV): Ensemble Random Forest Filter.
• Alberto Fernandez-Nieves (UB, ICREA): Grains, ants, active matter, and the emergent behavior of ant columns.
• Vicente Navarro (UCLM): Modelización de un sistema de bentonita granular como un conjunto discreto de unidades del continuo.
• Jean Vaunat (UPC): Formación y disociación de hidratos de metano en sedimentos marinos. Problemática, procesos físicos y modelación.
• Eugenio Sanz (UPM): Paleohidrogeologia de un sistema kárstico de Fuentetoba, Cordillera
  Ibérica.

On the 26th of October, in Madrid, the Spanish Chapter of InterPore will meet again with a one-day meeting full of interesting talks and interactions in the world of porous media.

To register, fill in the registration form here.

To find out more, click the brochure image below (versión en castellano) and check the preliminary program.

Mission

The Spanish Chapter of the InterPore society aims to create a broad network of companies, research centers, and universities in the field porous media. The Spanish Chapter will focus on interdisciplinary fundamental studies of porous media in connection with applications and national technological demands. Its objective is to advance and disseminate knowledge for the understanding, description, and modeling of natural and industrial porous media systems.

Steering Committee

– President: Marco Dentz (IDAEA-CSIC)

– Vice-President: Juan J. Hidalgo González (IDAEA-CSIC)

– Secretary: Laura Gonzalez Blanco (CIMNE-UPC)

– Treasurer: Elena Abarca Cameo (AMPHOS 21)

– Communication: María Pool (AMPHOS 21)

– Board member: Francisco Javier Elorza (UPM)

– Board member: J. Jaime Gómez Hernández (UPV)

– Board member: Vicenta María Barragán García (UCM)

Advisory Committee

– Carolina Guardiola Albert (IGME-CSIC)

– Luis Cueto-Felgueroso (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

– Pablo Ángel García Salaberri (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

– Joaquín Jiménez Martínez (Eidgenössisch Technische Hochschule Zürich)

– Jordi Ortín (Universitat de Barcelona)

– Jean Vaunat (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)