SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The five-day program will consists of presentations by keynote speakers followed by time for questions and discussion. Each day a session is scheduled with short presentations of the participants.

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Monday, May 04, 2015

Morning
08:00 – 08:30 Registration Desk
08:30 – 09:30 Opening Ceremony
09:30 – 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 – 11:30 Keynote 1: Dennis J Timlin – ARS– USDA, Beltsville, USA
Toward a more comprehensive and mechanistic approach to simulation of interacting plant and soil processes
11:30 – 14:00 Lunch.

Afternoon
14:00 – 15:15 Keynote 2: Nelson Luís da Costa Dias – UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil
Recent progress in analytical solutions of the Boussinesq nonlinear groundwater equation
15:15 – 15:50 8 brief presentations introducing posters
15:50 – 16:30 Coffee Break with posters
16:30 – 17:30 Short oral presentations (15 minutes each) of participants.

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Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Morning
08:30 – 09:45 Keynote 3: Marcel Schaap – University of Arizona, Arizona, USA
Preserving heterogeneity and consistency in hydrological model inversions by adjusting pedotransfer functions
09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:30 Keynote 4: Luiz Fernando Pires – UEPG, Ponta Grossa, Brazil
Application of computed tomography to soil physics in Brazil from 1985-2015
11:30 – 14:00 Lunch.

Afternoon
14:00 – 15:15 Keynote 5: Nunzio Romano – University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Monitoring and Modeling of Soil Moisture across Space-time Scales: Recent progress and Research Issues by Nunzio Romano
15:15 – 15:50 8 brief presentations introducing posters
15:50 – 16:30 Coffee Break with posters
16:30 – 17:30 Short presentations (15 minutes each) of participants.

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Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Morning
09:00 – 11:30 Round Table 1: Applied Sensors and automated systems for characterization of soil physical attributes
Moderator: Robson André Armindo – UFPR – Curitiba, Brazil
Speakers:
Nelson Luís da Costa Dias – UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil
Karletta Chief – University of Arizona, EUA
Irani dos Santos – UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil
11:30 – 14:00 Lunch.

Afternoon
14:00 – 15:15 Keynote 6: Jan Vanderborght – UFZ – Juelich, Germany
Modelling the handshaking between atmosphere and subsurface at the root-zone interface
15:15 – 15:50 8 brief presentations introducing posters
15:50 – 16:30 Coffee Break with posters
16:30 – 17:30 Short presentations (15 minutes each) of participants.

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Thursday, May 07, 2015

Morning
08:30 – 09:45 Keynote 7: Carlos Manoel Pedro Vaz – EMBRAPA-Cnpdia, São Carlos, Brazil
Principles and applications of new soil water tension sensors: the dihedral and IG tensiometer
09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:30 Keynote 8: Wolfgang Durner – TU, Braunschweig
Parameterization of models for soil hydraulic properties: Challenges and recent advances
11:30 – 14:00 Lunch.

Afternoon
14:00 – 15:15 Keynote 9: Quirijn de Jong van Lier, CENA/USP, Piracicaba – SP.
The Least Limiting Water Range and other “indicators”: the threat they represent for soil physics in Brazil
15:15 – 15:50 8 brief presentations introducing posters
15:50 – 16:30 Coffee Break with posters
16:30 – 17:30 Short presentations (15 minutes each) of participants.

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Friday, May 8, 2015

Morning
09:00 – 11:30 Round table 2: Modeling spatial and temporal variability of soil physical attributes
Moderator: Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Junior – LEG/UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil
Speakers:
Masato Kobiyama – IPH/UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Luís Carlos Timm – UFPEL – RS, Pelotas, Brazil
11:30 – 14:00 Lunch.

Afternoon
14:00 – 15:30 Closing Ceremony.