- Check in at University Inn or Comfort Inn
- Ice breaker 7-9 pm 5th floor of University Inn

Shuttle runs between Comfort Inn and the University Inn every 15 min between 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm (or call 770-2150)

Breakfast on your own - available at Taggart Student Center (TSC) west of the USU University Inn

Shuttle departs from Comfort Inn at 8:10 am for the Conference

8:30 Morning Session Moderated by Wilford Gardner

8:35 Welcome by Utah State University President Kermit Hall

8:50 Don Kirkham's entry into soil physics - Walter Gardner

9:20 Achievements of Don and Betty Kirkham - Rienk van der Ploeg

9:50 Invited Speaker Clayton J. Radke
"Pore-Scale Physics of Wettability Alteration in Oil Bearing Porous Media"

10:20 Break w/ refreshments

10:30 Invited Speaker Dani Or
"Soil Physics in Zero Gravity - Lessons and Challenges"

11:00 Invited speaker Joerg R. Bachmann
"Soil Wettability - A Curiosity or a Fundamental Soil Property?"

11:30 Discussion

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - TSC Walnut Room

1:30 Invited speaker Kate M. Scow
"Harnessing Molecular Tools to Understand Pore-Scale Microbial Processes"

2:00 Invited speaker Yannis C. Yortsos
"Special Imbibitions"

3:00 Introduction of graduate students

Joel Basinger - Texas Tech University
Robert Heinse - Utah State University
Chad Higgins - Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Hinnell - University of Arizona
Jeffery Kallestad - New Mexico State University
Volha Lazouskaya - University of Delaware
Brian Lepore - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tao Long - University of Connecticut
Arne Olsen - University of Florida
Ravid Rosenzweig - Technion University - Israel

3:10 Break w/ refreshments

3:00 - 5:00 Graduate student poster presentations

5:00 Discussion

5:30 - 7:15 Formal Dinner - TSC Walnut Room

7:30 - 9:00 Concert - Eccles Conference Center Auditorium

Featuring Logan Canyon Winds - Supported by Campbell Scientific Inc.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 29, 2004 - Eccles Conference Center 205

8:30 Friday Sessions Moderated by Jan Hopmans - UC Davis

8:30 Invited speaker Mark L. Rockhold
"Coupled Microbial and Transport Processes in Soils"

9:30 Informal visits at graduate student posters

10:30 Break w/ refreshments

11:00 Invited speaker William R. Rossen
"Theory and Modeling of Foam Generation in Porous Media"

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - TSC Walnut Room

1:30 Invited speaker Patricia A. Holden
"Diffusional Constraints on Microbial Processes in Unsaturated Porous Media"

2:00 Invited speaker José Bico
"Phase Change in Porous Media"

3:30 Break w/ refreshments

4:00 Invited speaker Markus Hilpert
"Towards a More Realistic Representation of the Geometry and Topology
of Porous Media"

5:00 Discussion - Closing Ceremony

6:30 Optional Informal Dinner - 5th floor University Inn