In the week from September 5-9, 2022 a short course has been organized by the University of Pavia (Italy) entitled “Wave Propagation in Deformable Solids and Meta-Materials“. The course will be held in a prestigious Renaissance Residence in downtown Pavia. The lecturers are well-known specialists in their respective disciplines. The schedule of the course is very intense with 6-7 hours of lectures every day. A limited number of PhD students and post-docs who are not supported by their own academic institutions can apply to student residences in Pavia which offer lodging at a particularly convenient rate. Details can be found on the attached flyer and at the web site http://mech-waves-course.unipv.it/ which has been purposely created. The course will be held in presence however due to Covid-19 restrictions, the auditorium can host up to a maximum of 50 participants. Reservations will be made on a first-come first-served basis. Applicants can register via the page http://mech-waves-course.unipv.it/registration/ no later than July 30, 2022. Other info can be found at the web site and on the attached flyer.

Advanced course on Modeling of Localized Inelastic Deformation (LID 2022),
taught by Milan Jirásek in Prague, Czech Republic, 5-9 September 2022.

This course provides an overview of modeling approaches used in the mechanics of inelastic materials and structures, with special attention to objective description of highly localized deformation modes such as cracks or shear bands. It is one of the RILEM educational courses. The course is intended for graduate students at the doctoral level, but it can be equally useful to motivated master students, post-doctoral researchers, or senior researchers who are not specialists in this field.

For details see https://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2022.html
For registration please contact Milan.Jirasek@fsv.cvut.cz .

The CouFrac 2022 (Coupled Processes in Fractured Geological Media) Conference will take place in Berkeley, California, 14-16 November 2022. The deadline for CouFrac 2022 abstract submission is June 1.  https://coufrac2022.org/abstracts/.
Why CouFrac 2022?
We have organized a very interesting program with distinguished Keynote Speakers, a Panel Discussion on Carbon Neutrality, and Emerging Scientist Plenaries. 
 Please find the conference flyer attached.

The Organizing Committee members have developed 26 sessions covering a wide range of topics associated with coupled processes in fractured geological media.

Selected presentations will be invited to submit papers to one of the CouFrac 2022 Special Issues (RMRE, WRR, JRMGE, TUST, and GGGG).

As CouFrac 2022 is an international conference sponsored by both ARMA and ISRM, we offer a 20% discount of the Registration fee for the ARMA/ISRM members: https://coufrac2022.org/registration/.

What is New and Special?
Mengsu Hu and Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte have organized a Special Session on Machine Learning for Coupled Processes in the Earth Sciences and Engineering. Six Distinguished Invited Lecturers have been invited to deliver state-of-the-art machine learning applications. The details of the Special Session can be found in the second flyer attached.

The conference will be held in person in Berkeley, with online options available for participants who are unable to travel.

We look forward to your participation!

Oslo, 7-10 June 2023

Website: https://jtc1-2023.com/

Please see the attached announcement for further details and visit the website of the workshop.

Deadline for short and extended abstracts: 30 June 2022.

(* JTC1: ISSMGE, IAEG and ISRM Joint Technical Committee on Natural Slopes and Landslides)

We are happy to announce that GEOLAB has launched its Second Call for Proposals to potential users among academia, SME, and industry to gain access to excellent research facilities in the fields of geotechnical and environmental engineering. This so-called Transnational Access is free of charge and includes technical & scientific support from the hosting facility. The theme of the present call is: ‘Experiments to study the pressures on Critical Infrastructure, e.g., impact of climate change, aging, increased usage, extreme weather events and geo-hazards’.

In our upcoming webinar, GEOLAB’s Second Transnational Access Webinar, we will be presenting an overview and update on project activities; examples of physical modelling of CI pressures; and fielding questions in relation to the presentations and access policy. 

The event will take place on May 19th, 9:30 – 11:00 AM CET.

The webinar will be delivered by University of Cambridge, TU Delft, ETH Zurich, Deltares, CEDEX, NGI, Technical University of Darmstadt, University Gustave Eiffel, and University of Maribor.

To register, please click on the link: Meeting Registration – Zoom

Deadline for Registrations – May 18th, 12:00 PM CET

Find more information on the Second Call for Proposals here: Call for Proposals – Geolab (project-geolab.eu)

GEOLAB is an European network of renowned institutes bringing together six geo-centrifuges and six other large research facilities: a geo-model container, a pile foundation test pit, a static liquefaction tank, a railway track simulator, a large-scale triaxial apparatus and a set of field test sites. The project is funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme. The overarching aim of GEOLAB is perform ground-breaking research and innovation that enhances the resilience of Europe’s Critical Infrastructure.

Find out more about the project here: https://project-geolab.eu/

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Dears colleagues,

You are more than welcome to join us in the Geotechnical Engineering Webinars, held by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Shiraz University, at:
https://vroom.shirazu.ac.ir/eng1-9

For that you only need to write your name and enter as guest. The following table presents the title and timing of our upcoming lectures in May and June. You, your colleagues, and your students are more than welcome to join us. Although the attached booklet is in both Persian and English, the lectures are in English (a short Persian and English introduction will be given at the beginning of each lecture). Please find enclosed the list and attached the booklet of lectures in May and June, they will also be continued in the Fall semester.

Hope to see you soon!

Kind regards,
E. Nikooee  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2365-1132

Thank you for your support to the AGERP lecture series in 2020 and 2021. At AGERP’20 and AGERP’21, we have had 16 lectures and 1 panel discussion that brought together 38 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 AGERP’20 and AGERP’21, it is your participation and appreciation that largely contributed to the success of AGERP.

In the first and second edition of the AGERP lecture series, we covered quite a breadth of topics related to geotechnical engineering. With the third edition we intend to dive further and deeper into some of the specialised topics in geotechnical engineering. To that end, we are pleased to invite you to the second workshop of the AGERP 2022 which will be an International Workshop on Unsaturated Soils, this workshop is scheduled to be held from 24th to 26th May 2022 (Australia). You may register for the workshop at www.age-rp.com. Program for the workshop is summarised in the attached flyer.

NTNU’s Geotechnical Group offers a PhD Course in Soil Modelling from October 3rd to 7th, 2022. This course provides a background for development and application of the soil models used in continuum-based computer codes for geotechnical applications. The course focuses on soil behaviour, elasto-plastic theory, hyperplasticity, selected material models and their parameters. It also provides some insight into numerical implementation of soil models. The course aims at providing a general theoretical framework for interpretation of the mechanical behaviour of soils.”

For more information:
https://www.ntnu.no/documents/1272524419/1273204284/Jordmodellering.pdf/698ff332-4143-0f11-9725-03f47282d376?t=1648711886989