Professor Sumer delivered a keynote address with the title “Scour and liquefaction at foundations of floating offshore turbines” at ICSE11, The 11th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, thru September 17-21, 2023, organized by NIRAS, DHI Group and DTU, with the Conference Chair Thor Ugelvig Petersen (NIRAS). Professor Sumer also served as a Member of the ScientificCommittee of the conference.
Professor Sumer gave a keynote Speech with the title “Scour and scour protection at offshore substations” at the 2023 IAHR-SHCS International Workshop on Scour around Hydraulic and Coastal Structures, September 4-6, 2023, Nanjing, China, organized by Hohai University (China), the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and Sichuan University (China). He also served as a Committee Member of the Workshop.
Professor Sumer will act as an Expert in a 4-year (2022-2026) research project funded by NSFC (Natural Science Funding of China) with the title “Full Scale Investigation on Pipeline Scour and Span Shoulder Migration in Seashell and sand Mixture Seabed”. Project’s Principal Investigator is Professor Titi Sui of Hohai University, College of Harbour, Coastal and Offshore Engineering. Professor David R. Fuhrman of Technical University of Denmark is also involved as an Expert in the project. Professors Sumer’s and Fuhrman’s participations in the project have also been supported by a 2-year (2022-2024) Research Collaboration Agreement, recently awarded under the scheme “Foreign Talent Introduction Project from The Foreign Experts Bureau of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.
Professor Sumer attended viva voce examination of Mr. Quingrui Meng which took place by ZOOM video conference on July 27, 2022 for Mr. Ming’s Thesis “Wake Transition Behind a Cube” for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Western Australia. The examination Committee was composed of Professor Sumer, Professor Alam Mahbub, and Professor Tongming Zhou (Chair). The Thesis supervisors were Professor Hongwei An, Professor Liang Cheng and Dr. Mehrdad Kimiaei of the same university.
Professor Sumer acted as Opponent #1 for the Ph.D. Project “CFD Simulations of Fluid-Structure Interactions of Cylindrical Subsea Structures at High Reynolds Numbers” conducted at the University of Stavanger, Faculty of Science and Technology, by Mr. Marek Jan Janocha under the supervision of Professor Muk Chen Ong (Principle Supervisor) and Dr. Guang Yin. Professor Sumer attended the defense at University of Stavanger, held on June 30, 2022.
Professor Sumer gave an online conference with the title “Damage sustained to concrete caissons during a storm event. Scour and liquefaction analysis. A case study”, organized by Key Laboratory of Coastal Disaster and Prevention, Hohai University, Ministry of Education, China, on May 20, 2022. Although the conference was intended mainly for the Chinese Coastal Engineering community it was attended also by people outside China as well. The total number of participants was 226.
As of April 21, 2022, Dr. Ozgur Kirca of BM SUMER is appointed as a “Professor in Hydraulics and Coastal Engineering” in Istanbul Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering. Professor Kirca has been a faculty member in the same department previously as an Associate Professor.
Professor Sumer has been appointed as an expert to provide assistance on research and development in the fields of harbor, coastal and offshore engineering, and guidance to young researchers’ development at the Hohai University, China.
This appointment has been materialized by the Hohai University through the “Hohai University Overseas Expertise Introduction Center for Discipline Innovation on Coastal Resources Exploitation and Security”.
His appointment will be for a period of 1 year, ending on December 31, 2022.
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Professor B. Mutlu Sumer attended as a guest lecturer at the DHI online course “Scour Around Marine Structures – How to Deal with Scour Challenges in Offshore Wind Farms”, which took place over 27/10-24/11, 2021.
