The Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Summerschool) in Innsbruck was attended by 34 participants from the following countries: Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden. The summer school comprised also an excursion to interesting landslide sites in the Alps, guided by Dr. G. Heissel.
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The Workshop and Doctoral School of ALERT Geomaterials in Aussois 2013 is over. Like in the previous year, a collection of photographs by David Mašín can be found on his webpage. More news from the meeting will follow soon.
As already announced in June, the ALERT Poster Session will be held during the ALERT Workshop 2013 from September 30 to October 2 in Aussois. Please submit your posters by email directly to the coordinator Donia Marzougui. The deadline will be September 22, 2013.
The registration for the ALERT Workshop and School 2013 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 it 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 the 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!
The programme of the ALERT Doctoral School 2013 can be already downloaded as a pdf file! The registration will open in June.
As announced already in October 2012, ALERT Workshop 2013 (24th Edition) will be held in Aussois from September 30 to October 2, 2013. Please don’t forget to submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, pdf).
Since time for the presentations is limited, only part of the abstracts submitted will be chosen for 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, 2013 . For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact directly the organizers of the sessions.
The programme of the Alert Summerschool 2013 will be announced within the next weeks. The tentative list of speakers comprises Gary Couples, Helen Lewis, Boris Kaus, Taras Gerya, Laetitia LePourhiet, Matthias Klinkmueller, Hannah Pomella.
The summerschool will take place in the central building of the Innsbruck university. Hence, persons wishing to attend should register at geotechnik@uibk.ac.at or contact Mrs. Sarah-Jane Loretz-Theodorine, +43 512 507 6671. The participation fees are 200,- Euro, however the Summerschool is free of charges for participants attached to ALERT. Upon acceptance the participants are requested to find and book their accommodation in Innsbruck.
The ALERT Newsletter No. 11 has just been published online!
The ALERT Summerschool (Olek Zienkiewicz Course) 2013 entitled Geology and Mechanics will be organized by Prof. Dimitrios Kolymbas and held in Innsbruck, 16-20 September 2013.
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ALERT Workshop 2013 will be organized from Monday September 30th till Wednesday October 2nd in Aussois.
Workshop sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, September 30)
Geomechanics of slopes
Coordinators: Claudio di Prisco and Leonardo Cascini
Session 2 (Tuesday, October 1)
Contact problems in geomechanics
Coordinators: Euripides Papamichos and Jean Sulem
(this will be only a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 2)
Degradation in geomaterials
Coordinators: Ali Daouadji, Christophe Dano and Erich Bauer
ALERT Doctoral School on Soil-structure interaction will follow the workshop.