ALERT poster session – new deadline

The deadline for submitting contributions to the ALERT Poster Session has been extended until September 20, 2014. The Poster Session will be held during the ALERT Workshop 2014 from September 29 to October 1 in Aussois. A booklet of abstracts (with an ISBN number) will be published too. Please submit your posters by email directly to the coordinator Donia Marzougui.

Registration for the ALERT Workshop & School 2014 is open!

The registration for the ALERT Workshop and School 2014 is open now! You can register using the form at https://alertgeomaterials.eu/forms/registration.html . After filling the form and pressing the button “Register”, a window will open with your invoice. Please print the window with the invoice for your records! You will also get an email with the registration data afterwards. In case of the registration of ALERT members, the corresponding representative of the ALERT institution will receive the registration data too.

The deadline for the registration is September 15th! The accomodation in Aussois will be processed in the order of the registrations (see the hints in the registration form).

Hints on how to get to Aussois!

ALERT Poster Session 2014

The ALERT Poster session will be held during the ALERT Workshop from September 29 to October 1, 2014 in Aussois. Those who are interested are asked to submit their abstracts (both word/openoffice and pdf files are required) by email to the coordinator Donia Marzougui using the attached abstract form (files as odt and pdf). The deadline for the abstracts submission is September 10, 2014.

Election of the ALERT Board of Directors

The election of the new ALERT Board of Directors (BoD) will take place in Aussois 29-30 September 2014, during the ALERT workshop. The BoD is composed of 15 members elected by the General Assembly. Each Institution has one vote. The vote is cast by the ALERT named representative of the Institution (whose name is specified on the ALERT website), or by another person belonging to the same Institution, delegated by written mandate by the named representative.

As foreseen by the ALERT Internal Regulations, candidatures must be submitted by a simple e-mail to the address of the ALERT Director. All permanent teachers, researchers and technicians belonging to an ALERT member Institution are eligible candidates for the BoD. The deadline for the candidatures is 15 September 2014.

ALERT Workshop 2014 – extended deadline

The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the Sessions 2 and 3 of the ALERT Workshop 2014 (25th Edition) has been extended up to May 31, 2014! Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, odt, pdf). The submission of the abstracts for the Session 1 is closed!

Session 2 (Tuesday, September 30)
Railway geomechanics
Coordinators: Antonis Zervos and Farhang Radjai
(a half-day exploratory workshop)

Session 3 (Wednesday, October 1)
Multiphysics coupling
Coordinators: Robert Charlier, Lorenzo Sanavia and Jean Vaunat

The presentation can also be submitted as a poster.

ALERT Workshop 2014 – Call for abstracts

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.