Program

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Tuesday, 6 May

08:00     Registration

09:00     Opening Session 1

Welcome:  Paul Kovacs, Executive Director, ICLR
Welcome:  Honourable Donna Cansfield, Minister of Natural Resource, Ontario,Canada
Welcome:  Honourable John Paul Woodley, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), USA
Welcome:  Dr. Salvano Briceno, UN ISDR - Presentation (pps, 1.53MB)
Welcome:  Slobodan P. Simonovic - Presentation (pps, 3.13MB)

10:30     Coffee Break

11:00     Plenary: Red River Flood of the Century – 10 Years Later

Session Leaders: Michael Ryan, US Bureau of Reclamation and Co-Chair of the International RedRiver Board and Wayne Dybvig, Saskatchewan Water Authority and Co-Chair of the IRRB

Panelists:

• Murray Clamen – International Joint Commission (IJC)
                    
• Daniel Luna – U.S. National Weather Service
                    
• Doug McNeil – Manitoba Floodway Authority
                    
• Judith DesHarnais – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
                    
• Dale Frink – North Dakota State Water Commission
                    
• Kent Lokkesmoe – Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

12:30     Lunch

14:00     Parallel Sessions

Mitigation – Vulnerability
Chair:J. van Alphen

Analytical and Distributive Methodologies – Modeling
Chair: K.D. W. Nandalal

Preparedness, Response and Recovery – Early Warning
Chair: M. Karamouz

Various Perspectives – River Basin Perspectives
Chair: D. Soong

Structural Approaches – Levees
Chair: D. Moser

15:30     Tea Break

16:00     Parallel Sessions

Mitigation – Flood Risk Management
Chair: J-M. Stam

Analytical and Distributive Methodologies – Geo-spatial Tools
Chair: A. Ross

Mitigation – Risk Management
Chair: A. Schumann

Various Perspectives – Urban Floods
Chair: B. Holmes

Structural Approaches – Flood Hydraulics
Chear: X. Cheng

18:00    Icebreaker

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