Summary

Prof. Arson gave a keynote lecture entitled "Homogenization enriched with spatial correlation functions for geomaterials" at the 8th Biot conference on poromechanics that took place on October 7-10, 2025 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Many thanks to the lab members who made this talk possible, mainly: Dr. Cheng Zhu, Dr. Xianda Shen, Dr. Tingting Xu, Dr. Anna Gorgogianni, and Tanguy Ramanantsoavina. Many thanks to our collaborators, Profs. Amade Pouya, Fred Chester, and Judi Chester. Any many thanks to the conference organizers, Drs. Pania Newell, Sanghyun Lee, and Stanislav Glubokovskikh.