The programme of the ALERT Doctoral School 2013 can be already downloaded as a pdf file! The registration will open in June.
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ALERT Workshop 2013 – Call for abstracts
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.
Information on ALERT Summerschool 2013
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.
ALERT Newsletter No. 11
The ALERT Newsletter No. 11 has just been published online!
Alert Summerschool 2013: Geology and Mechanics
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
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.
ALERT Poster Session 2012
During the ALERT Workshop a poster session always takes place. The posters presented this year as well as a booklet containing their short abstracts are now available online and can be downloaded here.
ALERT Doctoral School 2013
The title of the ALERT Doctoral School 2013 is Soil-structure interaction. It will take place in Aussois, October 3-5, 2013. The school organisers are Panagiotis Kotronis (EC Nantes), Claudio Tamagnini (University of Perugia) and Stephane Grange (UJF Grenoble).
New members of ALERT Geomaterials
At its meeting in Aussois, October 2012, the ALERT Board of Directors approved three submitted applications for the ALERT membership:
- Charles University in Prague represented by David Mašín
- University of Southampton represented by Antonis Zervos
- Technical University of Bari represented by Federica Cotecchia
With this decision, the number of the member institutions of ALERT Geomaterials increased to 30!
ALERT Special lecture 2013
The invited Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2013 will be presented by Prof. Ronaldo Borja from Stanford University. The title of his talk is Triggering a shear band in heterogeneous porous media.