Dear InterPore friends,

Summer vacation is upon many of us. This includes our Editor-in-Chief, Matthijs, as well as many of
you who would otherwise be sending us items to publish. As a result, the newsletter this week is
short and sweet, with a look at another great plenary speaker to InterPore 2022, the Kimberly-Clark
Distinguished Lecturer, and some new faces in the Program Committee.

Happy reading!

Leslie Jakobs
Managing Editor
InterPore News

InterPore2022

Plenary speaker: Prof. Abraham D. Stroock

Abraham
Stroock from Cornell University will give a plenary talk entitled “The Pulse of
Plants”.

He will describe his work measuring these dynamics with a microfluidic sensor
that itself borrows design principles from the vascular structure of plants, illustrate the coupling
of the various flows mentioned above with the physiology of plants, and point toward implications
for improved understanding of the biology and increased efficiency in the management of water in
agriculture.

More information on Prof. Stroock’s and other plenary speakers can be found on the InterPore2022
website.

Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2022

Professor Jacques Huyghe will be the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished
Lecturer for 2022. As such, he will share a topic relevant to the industrial porous media community
through a series of lectures at various member and non-member organizations.

The title of his lecture:
Poromechanics in extremely large deformation: swelling and
fracture

An abstract of the talk and a short biography of Prof. Dr. Huyghe can be found on our website.

Apply now to request to host one of the 2022 InterPore Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecture series at
your institute. Please visit our
website for further information on how to apply.

Program Committee

Image by athree23 on Pixabay

Some changes have been taking place among the members of InterPore’s Program Committee. Three
members are stepping down from their posts. We’d like to thank Sorin Pop, Veronika Schleper
and Amir Raoof for their time and dedication in the development and organization of the
InterPore Annual meetings.

Likewise, we’d like to welcome

• Roseanne Ford, University of Virginia, USA
• Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford University, USA
• Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University, New York, USA

as new members. More info on the Program Committee can be found on the website.

Southern US
Chapter

The Southern US Chapter of InterPore would like to announce three new members to the
Steering Committee.

Joining the existing six members are :

• Bo Guo, University of Arizona (AZ)
• Pania Newell, University of Utah (UT)
• Masa Prodanovic, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

The kick-off meeting is set for 24 September 2021.

The interim chair of the Southern US Chapter is Ahmad Sakhaee-Pour.
Please contact him if you want to join or if you have
questions.

MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox
Symposium

14-15 September 2021, online

The first MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) Symposium will take place online from 14-15
September 2021. The event will bring together a range of MRST users with many varying interests with
the aim of sharing experiences and inspiring each other in new scientific directions. The symposium
will consist of several plenary talks from prominent users, panel discussions with the opportunity
to meet the MRST developers at SINTEF, and a poster session. As it is online, the event will be free
to attend.

Registration is now open, and the abstract deadline has been extended to 23
August 2021. Please have a look at our website for more
information. We look forward to seeing you!

You are warmly invited to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session #22
at 24 August at 15:00 CEST local
time on our YouTube
Channel.

The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successful
Geoscience and Geoenergy
webinars with the focus placed on young professionals.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you online!

Catherine Spurin (ICL), Kamalijt Singh (HW), Marcel Moura (PoreLab, UiO), Tom Bultreys (UGhent),
Mohammad Nooraiepour (UiO), Maja Ruecker (ICL)

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• PhD or PostDoc,
  Uncertainty quantification of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical processes for probabilistic
  integrity analysis of deep geological repositories, UFZ Leipzig, Germany
• PostDoc,
  Safe energy storage in underground formations, TU Delft, Netherlands

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