Dr. Özer Çinicioğlu has been in the organizing committee of İMO 8th International Geotechnical Symposium which was succesfully held in İstanbul, Turkey on 13- 15 November 2019. Dr. Çinicioğlu also co-authored two papers persented at the conference, papers were entitled “ Influence of dilatancy on shear band formation in granular backfills" and " The influence of grain size characteristics on stress-dilatancy and strength relationship of cohesionless soils". Dr. Yildirim presented her paper entitled “Solution of a slope stability problem resulting from the loading of a levee" at the conference.