Like in the previous years, a collection of photographs by David Mašín documents the Workshop of ALERT Geomaterials in Aussois 2014. The focus is on the PhD prize (a report will follow) and the Special lecture by Prof. Itai Einav. Thanks, David!
The invited Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2015 will be presented by Prof. Hans Muhlhaus from the University of Queensland. The envisaged title of his talk is Mechanical and hydraulic instabilities in Geomechanics.
At its meeting in Aussois, September 2014, the ALERT Board of Directors approved four submitted applications for the membership in the ALERT Geomaterials association:
(associated membership)
With this decision, the number of the member institutions of ALERT Geomaterials increased to 34!
The ALERT Geomaterials Workshop 2015 will be organized from Monday, 28 September till Wednesday, 30 September in Aussois, France. It will include the following sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, September 28)
From discrete methods to continuum methods: Applications, Problems and Solutions
Coordinators: Y. Dafalias, L. Sibille and E. Andò
Session 2 (Tuesday, September 29)
How should we teach geomechanics?
Coordinators: G. Viggiani and I. Herle
(a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, September 30)
Fracturing and fractured reservoirs
Coordinators: E. Papamichos, H. Lewis and G. Couples
ALERT Doctoral School on Coupled and multiphysics phenomena will follow the workshop.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for four full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty positions; all ranks will be considered. Information about the Department may be found at: http://cee.illinois.edu. More details in pdf.
The title of the ALERT Doctoral School 2015 is Coupled and multiphysics phenomena. It will take place in Aussois, October 1-3, 2015. The school organisers are Bernhard Schrefler (Università degli Studi di Padova), Lorenzo Sanavia (Università degli Studi di Padova) and Frederic Collin (Université de Liège).
The Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway invites applicants for PhD research fellowship in the field of rock physics. The position is part of the project “Shale Rock Physics: Improved seismic monitoring for increased recovery”, which is funded by the Norwegian Research Council (PETROMAKS 2 program) and six industry partners. The project is coordinated by SINTEF Petroleum. The PhD research fellowship is awarded for a total of 3 years and the experimental work will be carried out at SINTEF’s Formation Physics Laboratory.
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The activity will focus on the mechanical behavior of reservoir sands; a strong background competences on constitutive modelling are expected. More details in pdf.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University invites applicants for a tenure track faculty position in geotechnical engineering. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, soil-structure interaction, numerical modeling, geo-mechanics, retaining structures, geotechnical earthquake engineering and flow through porous media. This position is open to mid-career and senior candidates with an earned Ph.D., the ability to establish a well-funded program of independent and collaborative research, and strong teaching skills.
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VI International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering – COUPLED PROBLEMS 2015 will take place in San Servolo, Venice, Italy, 18-20 May 2015. There will be an invited session “Computational Models and Methods for Multiphysics Processes in Multiphase Porous Media”
(session code 6) organized by Lorenzo Sanavia and Claudio Tamagnini.
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