Ioannis Vardoulakis PhD Prize 2023

Posted on February 7, 2023 by Arthur Fanara

The Bureau of ALERT Geomaterials has decided to fund the Ioannis Vardoulakis PhD Prize 2023. Since 2016, the PhD prize is entitled Ioannis Vardoulakis PhD Prize to commemorate Prof. Vardoulakis and his contributions to research and teaching in the field of Geomechanics.

The participation to the prize is open to all the PhD students with at least one official supervisor from one of the institutions belonging to ALERT, that have successfully defended their PhD thesis in 2022. The deadline for the applications is 31st March, 2023.

The rules, agenda and further details are to be found on the ALERTwebsite:
https://alertgeomaterials.eu/alert-phd-prize/

Happy New Year 2023

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Arthur Fanara

Dear ALERT community,

On behalf of the ALERT Bureau and the Board of directors, we would like to wish you a Happy New Year 2023.

This year, two new members joined us (https://alertgeomaterials.eu/alert-geomaterials/members/), and the annual meeting in Aussois was a great success, with more than 200 participants at the Center Paul Langevin. We can only hope to keep the same trend this year.

We wish you all the best for 2023, may it bring peace, health and joy to you and your loved ones.

See you all in Aussois,
Arthur and Frédéric.

Best wishes for a joyous Christmas !

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Arthur Fanara

Dear ALERT community,

On behalf of the ALERT Bureau and the Board of directors, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas 2022.

May you enjoy this holiday season with your family and friends.

See you soon,
Arthur and Frédéric.

Getting to Aussois by train

Posted on September 21, 2022 by Arthur Fanara

Dear all,

For those of you who are registered to the workshop and school in Aussois, and come by train, a bus has been planned to pick you up at the station at around 19h00, Sunday 25 September.

A bus will also be planned to drive you back to the station at the end of the school but more information will arrive later.

See you soon in Aussois!

ALERT Workshop and School 2022 – Final Programme

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Arthur Fanara

The final programme of the ALERT Workshop and School 2022 is now online.

The registration for the ALERT Workshop and School 2022 is opened until Thursday (15th September) at midnight so don’t forget to register!

See you in Aussois!

Preliminary programme of the ALERT Workshop and School 2022

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Arthur Fanara

The preliminary programme of the ALERT Workshop and Doctoral School 2022 in Aussois is now available.

Download the Workshop and School preliminary programme.

More information and the link to the registration script can be found here.

Newsletter 2022

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Arthur Fanara

Dear ALERT members,

Please find attached our Spring 2022 Newsletter. This newsletter sums up the activities of ALERT Geomaterials in the past year, and presents the new activities taking place in Aussois in the end of September.

The newsletters of recent years can be found in the archive.

See you soon in Aussois !

ALERT Workshop 2022 – Extended Call for Abstract for Session 1

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Arthur Fanara

The deadline for the abstract submission has been extended to May 31, 2022 for the SESSION 1 ONLY. Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc). If you wish to publish your presentation after the Workshop on the ALERT website, do not forget to agree by ticking the corresponding box in the abstract form.

As a reminder, here are the workshop sessions:

Session 1: “Mechanics of hard-soils/soft rocks” – EXTENDED CALL
Organizers: Claudia Vitone (claudia.vitone@poliba.it) (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Nadia Benahmed (nadia.benahmed@inrae.fr) (INRAE, France), Elma Charalampidou (ec10@hw.ac.uk) (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK).
Session 2: “Robot-Ground Interaction“ – CLOSED
Organizers: Raul Fuentes and Itai Einav
Session 3: “Multi-field approach of gravity-driven disasters in a global climate change context” – CLOSED
Organizers: F. Nicot (EDYTEM / USMB), F. Magnin (EDYTEM / CNRS-USMB), S. Lambert (UGA – INRAE), F. Calvetti (Politecnico Milano)

Further information on this post.

ALERT Poster Session 2022

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Arthur Fanara

The ALERT Poster session will be held during the ALERT Workshop from September 26 to September 28, 2022 in Aussois.

Those who are interested are asked to submit their abstracts (both word/openoffice and pdf files are required) by email to the coordinators Nadia Benahmed (nadia.benahmed@irstea.fr) and Antoine Wautier (antoine.wautier@irstea.fr) using the attached abstract form (Template).

The deadline for the submission of the abstract is the September 9, 2022.

ALERT Workshop 2022 – Call for abstracts for the three sessions

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Arthur Fanara

The ALERT Workshop 2022 (32nd Edition) should be held in Aussois from 26th to 28th September, 2022. Abstracts can now be submitted for the three sessions. Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc). If you wish to publish your presentation after the Workshop on the ALERT website, do not forget to agree by ticking the corresponding box in the abstract form.

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 abstracts of the posters will be published in a separate booklet (ISSN registered).

The deadline for the abstract submission is April 30, 2022. For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact the coordinators of the workshop sessions directly.

As a reminder, here are the workshop sessions for which the call for abstracts is open:

Session 1: “Mechanics of hard-soils/soft rocks”
Organizers: Claudia Vitone (claudia.vitone@poliba.it) (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Nadia Benahmed (nadia.benahmed@inrae.fr) (INRAE, France), Elma Charalampidou (ec10@hw.ac.uk) (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK).
Session 2: “Robot-Ground Interaction“
Organizers: Raul Fuentes (raul.fuentes@rwth-aachen.de) and Itai Einav (itai.einav@sydney.edu.au)
Session 3: “Multi-field approach of gravity-driven disasters in a global climate change context“
Organizers: F. Nicot (francois.nicot@univ-smb.fr) (EDYTEM / USMB), F. Magnin (Florence.Magnin@univ-smb.fr) (EDYTEM / CNRS-USMB), S. Lambert (stephane.lambert@inrae.fr) (UGA – INRAE), F. Calvetti (francesco.calvetti@polimi.it) (Politecnico Milano)