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CREAMS (CREep Across Materials and Scales) international workshop

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We would like to inform you that researchers from the Laboratoire Navier, the LMPS (ENS Paris Saclay) and the Centre de Géosciences (Ecole des Mines ParisTech) are organising the CREAMS (CREep Across Materials and Scales) international workshop with co-funding from the Laboratoire Navier, the LABEX MMCD and the DIM MaTeRe.

The objective of this workshop is to explore the various approaches employed by different scientific communities in investigating creep phenomena in solids. Specialists in the fields of cementitious materials, bio-sourced materials, glasses + amorphous materials, and rocks + soils will discuss different materials and scales at which creep processes are observed.

We invite everybody to this workshop that will be held on 9 and 10 November at ENPC close to Paris (France).

The programme and all the necessary information about this event are available online at: https://creams.sciencesconf.org/

Online registration is free and mandatory, subject to the number of places available.

A poster session will be devoted to those interested in presenting their work, related to the workshop theme. We strongly encourage doctoral and post-doctoral students to participate. All you have to do is register on the website and submit an abstract (max. 400 words) by 24 October.

Please reserve these dates and share this announcement within your network!

2nd International Conference on Microbial Biotechnology in Construction Materials and Geotechnical Engineering (MBCMG 2024)

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Dear Colleagues,

Nanyang Technological University together with NTU CEE Alumni Association is organizing 2nd International Conference on Microbial Biotechnology in Construction Materials and Geotechnical Engineering (MBCMG 2024) from 15th and 16th of August 2024 in Singapore.  This conference is gracefully supported by Geotechnical Society of Singapore (GeoSS), ISSMGE Technical Committee TC211 on Ground Improvement, ISSMGE Technical Committee TC217 on Land Reclamation, American Concrete Institute (Singapore Chapter), and BioGeotechnics (An International Journal). We would like to invite you to participate this conference to catch up with latest development in one of the fastest developing R&D areas in construction materials and geotechnical engineering together with the other participants around the world.

The conference involves a wide range of topics related to biogeotechnologies. It will be an insightful gathering, drawing together a diverse audience of academics, developers, design engineers, and postgraduate students who share a profound interest in bio-mediated soil behaviour and bio-inspired construction materials.

For further details regarding the conference, please visit our official website at www.2icmbcge.com. Should you have any inquiries or require further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at < chao.shi@ntu.edu.sg > < sfwu@ntu.edu.sg > or < kangda.wang@ntu.edu.sg >.

We look forward to welcoming you to Singapore in August 2024.

Prof. CHU Jian
Conference Chair
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of MBCMG 2024s

GOING TO AUSSOIS BY TRAIN – LAST UPDATE – BUS LOCATION

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Dear colleagues,

For those of you coming by train to Aussois this year, we have booked a transportation by bus between the Chambéry station and the Centre Paul-Langevin. Here are the final information:

  • Sunday 24/09 at 18:30, a bus will leave the station. There is space for 100 people so don’t worry, you’ll get on the bus!
  • Wednesday 27/09 at 18:45, a bus will arrive at the station. It should therefore leave the Centre Paul-Langevin at around 16:45. Of course, the bus will come back to the Centre with the people coming for the doctoral school.
  • Saturday 30/09 at 15:00, a bus will arrive at the station. It should therefore leave the Centre Paul-Langevin at around 13:00.

The bus will meet you at the “Gare Routière de Chambéry”, 250m from the Station “Challes-Les-Eaux”. You can see the plan below for more detailed instructions.

We hope this solution suits everyone, see you in Aussois!

Going to Aussois by train: Update

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Dear colleagues,

For those of you coming by train to Aussois this year, we have booked a transportation by bus between the Chambéry station and the Centre Paul-Langevin. Here are the final information:

  • Sunday 24/09 at 18:30, a bus will leave the station. There is space for 100 people so don’t worry, you’ll get on the bus!
  • Wednesday 27/09 at 18:45, a bus will arrive at the station. It should therefore leave the Centre Paul-Langevin at around 16:45. Of course, the bus will come back to the Centre with the people coming for the doctoral school.
  • Saturday 30/09 at 15:00, a bus will arrive at the station. It should therefore leave the Centre Paul-Langevin at around 13:00.

We hope this solution suits everyone, see you in Aussois!

Information about ALERT Doctoral School 2023

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Dear participants,

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the 2023 ALERT Doctoral School on “Machine Learning in Geomechanics”.

Don’t forget to bring your laptop and refresh your knowledge in Python.

Please also fill out the following survey, which will be very helpful for the teachers:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdR7_LVY4s0fNfl6d-Imuw6PLBYfuUV5uah4AqWAU3dsahFog/viewform

Best regards, Felix Darve and Ioannis Stefanou

Invitation to the Pan IIT Lecture series on Geotechnical Engineering: AGERP 2023

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Thank you for your support to the AGERP lecture series from the past three years. At AGERP’20 AGERP’21, and AGERP’22, we have had 38 lectures and 1 panel discussion that brought together more than 40 renowned geoengineering experts and a huge audience from 126 countries through a free to access knowledge sharing platform. Apart from the generous support from the experts that appeared in the past three editions of, it is your participation and appreciation that largely contributed to the success of AGERP.

In the first three editions of the AGERP lecture series, we covered quite a breadth of topics related to geotechnical engineering. In the fourth edition, we are looking forward to offering the global audience a glimpse of the cutting-edge research conducted in the field of geotechnical engineering by the top engineering institutions in India – the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). To that end,  we are pleased to invite you to the PAN IIT Lecture series on Geotechnical Engineering, scheduled to be held on 19th to 20th September 2023 (India | Australia). You may register for the workshop at www.age-rp.com. Program for the workshop is summarised in the Flyer (In IST and AEST).

Géotechnique 75th Anniversary

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The journal Géotechnique is hosting an event on the 27th October 2023 at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London to celebrate its 75th anniversary (https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/page/ice-news/geot75). We wish to gather the geotechnical community to cherish Géotechnique’s past research and look forward, to future fundamental and applied research.

The day is organised around three main themes:

  • Theme 1 – Soil micromechanics: from surface physics and chemistry to macro engineering applications
  • Theme 2 – Bio-assisted geotechnics: effective strategy in a Net Zero Carbon World?
  • Theme 3 – Artificial Intelligence in geotechnics: virtual dream or practical reality?


Each theme session will include:

  • Introductory Lecture offering a multidisciplinary perspective of the research theme (Lecturers are Prof Carlos Santamarina, Prof Glyn Bengough, and Prof Darren Wilkinson)
  • Géotechnique Research Lecture to cherish the past and look forward to the future (Lecturers are Prof Catherine O’Sullivan, Prof Jason DeJong and Prof Antonio Correia)
  • Discussion
  • Poster session (10 posters per theme)

The event programme is available here.
Tickets are available here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/geotechnique-75th-anniversary-2368059

Going to Aussois following the landslide

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Dear ALERT members,

Many of ALERT Workshop and School participants already contacted us about the difficulty to get a train connection to Aussois. Some of you received a message related to the cancelling of their train ticket.

The reason of these canceled trains is the rock slope instability that occured in the Maurienne Valley on Sunday 27th August (see a French article here). As a researcher in geomechanics, this instability problem is really interesting.

However, its consequence is the following: the train connections, the highway and the regional roads are currently closed due to this instability.

We may hope that the highways will be open very soon but it will not be the case for the train lines. That means that the travel by car to Aussois at the end of September should be possible.

The Bureau is in contact with the Center Paul Langevin to try to find a solution to the problem.

For the people coming from France to Aussois (by train), we propose you to take a train to Chambéry and we will organise a bus between Chambéry station and Aussois the Sunday 24th at 6:30 pm.

We will organise also a bus connection between Chambéry station and Aussois the Wednesday 27th at 6:45 pm. The same organisation will be foreseen at the end of the workshop (Wednesday 27th at 6:45pm at the station) and school (Saturday 30th at 3pm at the station) .

We will send directly a message to the participant that declared to come by train to Aussois.

We will do our best to organize the transfer.

For the people coming from Italy to Aussois, the situation is a bit more complex and we would suggest to organize your travel to Aussois by car.

We will of course keep you informed in case of any changes.

Thank you again for your support and hoping to see you in Aussois!

Best regards,
Frédéric COLLIN.

Reminder – ALERT Poster Session 2023

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The ALERT Poster session will be held during the ALERT Workshop from September 25 to September 27, 2023 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@inrae.fr) and Antoine Wautier (antoine.wautier@inrae.fr) using the attached abstract form (Template).

This year, the ALERT Committee has decided to award a prize (€500) to the poster that demonstrates the greatest originality, aesthetics and clarity, as well as the best scientific content, both in the poster and the abstract.

The deadline for the submission of the abstract is the September 10, 2023. For those wishing to participate to the competition, please send your poster (in pdf format) at the same time as your abstract.