Registration for the ALERT Workshop & School 2014 is open!

The registration for the ALERT Workshop and School 2014 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 the window with the invoice 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 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!

Election of the ALERT Board of Directors

The election of the new ALERT Board of Directors (BoD) will take place in Aussois 29-30 September 2014, during the ALERT workshop. The BoD is composed of 15 members elected by the General Assembly. Each Institution has one vote. The vote is cast by the ALERT named representative of the Institution (whose name is specified on the ALERT website), or by another person belonging to the same Institution, delegated by written mandate by the named representative.

As foreseen by the ALERT Internal Regulations, candidatures must be submitted by a simple e-mail to the address of the ALERT Director. All permanent teachers, researchers and technicians belonging to an ALERT member Institution are eligible candidates for the BoD. The deadline for the candidatures is 15 September 2014.

ALERT Workshop 2014

The ALERT Workshop 2014 will be organized from Monday, 29 September till Wednesday, 1 October in Aussois, France. It will include the following sessions:

Session 1 (Monday, September 29)
Constitutive modelling – what’s new?
Coordinators: Roberto Nova and Claudio di Prisco

Session 2 (Tuesday, September 30)
Railway geomechanics
Coordinators: Antonis Zervos and Farhang Radjai
(a half-day exploratory workshop)

Session 3 (Wednesday, October 1)
Multiphysics coupling
Coordinators: Robert Charlier, Lorenzo Sanavia and Jean Vaunat

ALERT Doctoral School on Stochastic analysis and inverse modelling will follow the workshop.

Registration for the ALERT Poster Session 2013

The registration for the ALERT Poster Session 2013, held during the ALERT Workshop, is open now! The 7th ALERT poster session will be organized by Donia Marzougui (3SR – Grenoble INP).  All posters will be included in a booklet with ISBN, which will be made available on ALERT’s website after the Workshop. Those who have submitted an abstract and a poster to the organizers of the Workshop sessions, please send your posters to Donia, too!