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 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.

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:

With this decision, the number of the member institutions of ALERT Geomaterials increased to 30!