Dear Colleagues,

From April 14th to 17th, 2025, we are organizing an international workshop titled “International Workshop on Granular Materials & Regolith” at the University de Lorraine, Metz, France. The theme of the event will focus on: “Granular Materials Fundamentals, Applications, and Concepts for Extraterrestrial Regolith, including the Moon, Mars, and Asteroids.”

The event will bring together specialists and established researchers from academia, government agencies (including NASA, ESA, CNES) and industry. Participants will exchange and discuss ideas and topics related to regolith issues, particularly how knowledge and methods developed for granular media can help to approach extraterrestrial regolith behavior under extreme temperature, thin atmosphere, radiation, meteorite impact and other extreme environmental conditions.

The Workshop will have 10 sessions including 10 invited researchers/specialists delivering keynote presentations and 14 invited Feature presentations,18 quick-talks, and a poster session with more than 40 presentations.

We are pleased to invite you to participate in this event, and we will be grateful if you could circulate the attached flyer to those interested.

More information can be found on the workshop website at: https://regolith-metz.event.univ-lorraine.fr/ or here. We look forward to seeing you at the workshop in Metz, France. Thank you.

With all the best,

On behalf of International Organizing Committee

CoChairs:
Mahdia, Anil and Ramesh

Mahdia Hattab (Workshop Co-Chair),
Professor, Université de Lorraine-LEM3-CNRS/Member ASCE/EMI-GMTC and Member IRN GeoMech,. France.
E-mail: mahdia.hattab@univ-lorraine.fr,

Ramesh B. Malla (Workshop Co-Chair),
Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A.Chair, ASCE/Aerospace Division (ASD) -Space Engineering and Construction Technical Committee (SEC TC).
E-mail: Ramesh.Malla@uconn.edu, 

Anil Misra (Workshop Co-Chair)
Professor, Florida International University, Miami, FL, U.S.A.Chair, ASCE/Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) -Granular Materials Technical Committee (GMTC).
E-mail:  anmisra@fiu.edu

May 12-15, 2026
Vilnius, Lithuania
(https://vilniustech.lt/mbmst)

Traditional International Conference Modern Building Materials, Structures and Techniques has been organized since 1991 when the very first forum organized by the Faculty of Civil Engineering of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University was held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Conference will be organized in 4 parallel sections: Structures, Materials, Geotechnics and Construction technologies.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Maria Stefanidou. Utilization of industrial by-products for the production of sustainable building materials
Lyesse Laloui. Energy geostructures: a smart exploitation of the renewable energy situated under our cities
José António Silva Carvalho Campos Matos. Implementing Novel Technologies Towards the Sustainable Management of Existing Infrastructures
Klaus Holschemacher. Application of robotics for the production of precast carbon-reinforced concrete members

Abstracts will not be collected. Only full papers will be reviewed.
January 1, 2025 – Opening the full papers submission system.
October 1, 2025 – Deadline for registration and full paper submission for review
November 31, 2025 – Notification of paper acceptance
January 31 , 2026 – Submission of the corrected final papers (corrected according to the review report)
February 15, 2026 – Notification of acceptance of final papers
February 28, 2026 – Deadline for payments for all conference authors of the articles (if not paid until 28th February 2026, the articles will not be published)
May 12, 2026 – Welcome reception
May 13–14, 2026 – The event
May 15, 2026 – Cultural tour

We look forward to seeing you in Vilnius.
Sincerely,
Organizing committee members
Remigijus Šalna and Šarūnas Skuodis

Conference EUNSAT2025 – 5th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (https://eunsat2025.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/) – will be at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 3 September 2025. This conference is supported by the Technical Committee 106 of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.

Considering Unsaturated Soils natural link to Bio-Inspired Technology such as Nature-based Solutions and Biocementation, among other topics, the organization has decided to create special sessions related to Biotechnology in Geotechnical Engineering, BGE, and offer a summer course on this topic mainly dedicated to PhD students. Participants outside unsaturated soils technical community are mostly welcome, having the option to register only at BGE. 

Abstracts on any topic related to UNSATURATED SOILS AND ROCKS are welcome, covering topics on traditional geotechnical engineering applications, sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering, environmental problems (engineered barriers to protect the environment, the reuse of waste materials, tailings and mine waste, etc), climate stresses under climate change scenario, energy geotechnics, historic sites, geo-education and bio-inspired technologies in Geotechnics (BGE topics: nature-based solutions, root reinforcement, bio-cementation, fungi reinforcement, hydrophobic materials, among others).

Conference proceedings will be submitted for Scopus indexation.

Abstract submission, until 30th December 2024, is already open through the website (https://eunsat2025.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/). There you can find further information, but you can also contact: info@eunsat2025.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Rafaela Cardoso – Chair of EUNSAT2025 with BGE

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 8th International Symposium on Pressuremeters (ISP8), marking the 70^th anniversary of this esteemed conference series that takes place from September 2^nd to 5^th, 2025 at the University of Luxembourg.

The symposium will provide an excellent platform to exchange knowledge and experiences among contractors, manufacturers, geotechnical engineers from design offices, scientists, and academics. A technical exhibition will showcase the latest methods, technologies, and cutting-edge testing equipment and materials.

We also invite you to visit the ISP8 website, available in both English and French, at: https://isp8-pressio2025.com

We invite the researchers and practitioners to submit abstracts on topics relevant to the symposium’s themes. The deadline for the submission of the abstract is on 1^st December 2024, and all necessary details on submission of the abstract and can be found here.

All papers accepted by the scientific committee will be published in the Symposium Proceedings, which will be made available during the event.

We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions to ISP8 and hope to welcome you all in Luxembourg.

Should you have any questions or require further information, please don’t hesitate to contact us at arash.lavasan@uni.lu.

Best regards,
(Organization committee)
Arash Lavasan
Romain Meyer
Robert Heintz
Monique Rodesh
Jean-Frank Wagner

The 2025 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference will be hosted by the University of California, Irvine and held in Anaheim, California from May 27—30, 2025.

Ghassan Shahin (EPFL), John Rudnicki (NU), and Giuseppe Buscarnera (NU) would like to invite you to contribute to the mini-symposium ADVANCES IN GEOMECHANICS AND GEOPHYSICS FOR SUB-SURFACE TECHNOLOGY AND NATURAL HAZARD. MS code (needed for abstract submission) 1a9yv. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• multiscale and multiphysics mechanics of porous rocks
• fault mechanics, fracture mechanics, and deformation banding
• field and laboratory methods
• constitutive, multiscale, and data-driven modeling approaches

Abstract submission is now open and will remain open until December 1, 2024. Information on submitting an abstract may be found here.

We hope you will submit an abstract to the conference and meet in Anaheim, California!

We are glad to announce that the information and detailed program of the 
VII KRATOS WORKSHOP that will be held in Padova, Italy, on November 6,7,8 2024 is now online.

Please, visit the following web for information and registration: https://kratosmultiphysics.github.io/Kratos/pages/Kratos/Workshops/2024_UNIPD/Event/index.html

The attendance is free but registration is required (deadline for registration October 29, 2024)

Important info:
KRATOS WORKSHOP November 6, 7 2024
KRATOS Course November 8 2024

VENUE:
Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi Civita”, University of Padova, Italy via Trieste 63, 35121 Padova
Sala Gialla, Library floor -1 (entrance from stair B)

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider attending the Anura3D MPM workshop and training course in Barcelona on January 30-31, 2025. Early bird registration fee closes on October 31st. Note that the first half day there will be a hands-on training course about MPM, which may be relevant for doctoral students, but not only. Although it is called “Anura3D MPM workshop” we warmly welcome all participants interested in MPM, especially those working with different codes. 

Further details on the event are available here: https://anura3dworkshop2025.cimne.com/introduction