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 Poster Session 2012
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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.
Free Download of the ALERT Doctoral School book
The book with lecture notes from the ALERT Doctoral School 2012 on Advanced experimental techniques in geomechanics, edited by G. Viggiani, S.A. Hall and E. Romero, is available for free download.
Photo Competition during the ALERT Doctoral School 2012
The pictures taken by the students for the photo competition during the ALERT Doctoral School 2012 are now available online. The competiton was initiated by Carlos Santamarina and its results were presented in a stimulating atmosphere by Eddy Ando. The subject of the competition was reserch motivation.
ALERT PhD Prize Winners
The ALERT PhD Prize 2012 was awarded to Thomas Blanc from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid for his PhD thesis entitled “The Runge-Kutta Taylor-SPH, A new improved model for soil dynamics problems” (abstract), and to Mohammad Monfared from École des Ponts – Paris Tech for his PhD thesis entitled “Temperature-damage-permeability coupling in clayey soils and rocks” (abstract). See more details and the winners from the previous years.
Impressions from the annual meeting of ALERT Geomaterials
The annual meeting of ALERT Geomaterials in Aussois is over. A collection of impressions photographed by David Mašín can be found on his webpage. More news from the meeting will follow soon.
Olek Zienkiewicz Course 2012 in Dresden
From the 17th to 21st September 2012 the Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Doctoral Summerschool) entitled Constitutive Modelling of Soils took place in Dresden. 42 participants from 15 countries were listening to the presentations of four lecturers – Professors David Muir Wood (Dundee), Claudio Tamagnini (Perugia), David Mašín (Prague), Ivo Herle (Dresden) – and working out computer exercises using the software Octave.
Final Program ALERT Workshop 2012
Please find here the link to the final program of the ALERT Workshop and Doctoral School 2012.