ALERT Doctoral School 2014 will be held on the 2nd-4th October 2014 in Aussois, France. It is entitled “Stochastic Analysis and Inverse Modelling” and coordinated by M.A. Hicks and C. Jommi (TU Delft). The preliminary programme can be found below:
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The Bureau of ALERT Geomaterials has decided to fund the ALERT PhD Prize 2014. The participation to the prize is open to all the PhD students coming from institutions belonging to ALERT, that have discussed their PhD thesis before December 31, 2013. The deadline for sending the dossiers is May 31, 2014.
The rules and further details are to be found on the Alert website:
https://alertgeomaterials.eu/alert-phd-prize/
5th “Interdisciplinary Workshop on Rockfall Protection” – RocExs 2014 – will take place from 29th to 31st May 2014 in Lecco (Italy)!
RocExs 2014 is organized on behalf of the Rockfall Expert Network (RocExs.NET) by Politecnico di Milano and Università di Milano – Bicocca, with the support of Rockfall Defence, and is hosted at the new Lecco Campus of Politecnico di Milano.
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The University of Edinburgh (UK), in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), is seeking a full time PhD researcher with research interests in mechanics of soils and granular media, particle technology and computational mechanics to work on “Behaviour of dense granular systems: predicting flow regimes for bulk material handling”, within the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network T-MAPPP – Training in Multiscale Analysis of multi-Phase Particulate Processes (http://www.t-mappp.eu). See the attached pdf file or http://www.t-mappp.eu/esr-11.html for more details.
The international conference on “Modeling Granular Media Across Scales” will be held from 9 to 11 July 2014 in Montpellier, France. This conference is jointly organized by MIT (Cambridge, USA) and the MiDi Network (Montpellier, France). The deadline for abstract submission is May 4, 2014. For a detailed description of the conference goals, invited speakers, venue and registration, visit the website of the conference at cgp-gateway.org/MGMAS2014 or see the Flyer-MGMAS2014.
6th ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Summerschool) on Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics will be held in ETS de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos in Madrid (Spain) from 2nd to 6th June 2014. The main goal of this course is to provide PhD students with a sound knowledge of Computational Geomechanics. The course will include lectures at four levels:
(1) Basic: providing the fundamentals of the numerical techniques used
(2) Advanced and research: the students will learn special techniques to deal with non linear problems, dynamics, integration of constitutive equations. We aim to present current research within ALERT in this field.
(3) Applications to practical cases
(4) Practical. We believe that practise is fundamental when learning a computational technique. Therefore, we will provide a group of sessions where the students, with the help of instructors will practise with the finite element code GeHoMadrid.
Detail for the course you can find in the poster and the document on the 6thALERT OZ course.
Due to pedagogic reasons, the number of participant is limited to 25. The deadline for the registration is 2nd May 2014. Please use the registration form.
A Postdoc position on Modeling the erosion of a granular soil with cohesion is open at IRSTA in Aix-en-Provence (France). See the attached pdf file for more details.
As announced already in October 2013, ALERT Workshop 2014 (25th Edition) will be held in Aussois from September 29 to October 1, 2014. Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, odt, pdf).
Since time for the presentations is limited, only a part of the submitted abstracts can be chosen for the oral presentations. Therefore, we invite you to submit your abstract as soon as possible. The presentation can also be submitted as a poster. The deadline for the abstract submission is April 30, 2014. For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact directly the coordinators of the workshop sessions.
The Geomechanics & Geotechnical Engineering research group at Chalmers, led by Prof. Minna Karstunen, is looking for a motivated and talented individual for the position of PhD researcher in a Chalmers-NCC joint industry research project on geothermal foundations on soft clays funded by FORMAS (http://www.formas.se/en/) and SBUF (http://www.sbuf.se/). Continue reading
The Department of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) offers a PhD scholarship in Offshore Foundations for Jacket Structures. More details at http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/job?id=aa108867-cae9-412f-b546-8a10f0874d78.