Find below three articles that may be useful to those who are planning to organize a virtual conference:

• “How to organize an online conference”
• “Maximizing virtual meetings and conferences: a review of best practices” 
• “Online Meetings in Times of Global Crisis: Toward Sustainable Conferencing”

The organising committee of AGERP is pleased to invite you to the 10th installment of the Lecture series, which will be on ‘Improvement of Soft Soils with special reference to Transport Infrastructure‘. This is scheduled to be hosted on 13th November 2020 (AEST). Registration (free and mandatory) for this lecture closes at 00:00, 12th November 2020 (AEST). This Lecture will be delivered by Professor Buddhima Indraratna (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) and  Dr. AHM Kamruzzaman (Transport for NSW, Australia).
Further info. and registration (free but mandatory): https://www.age-rp.com/registration

For further information, please refer to the attached flyer.

Dr. Partha Mishra and Professor Sarat Das,Convenor, AGERP

Dear All,

I am glad to invite you to participate in the Special Session: Physical and Numerical Modelling of Landslide-Structure-Interaction (LSI) in ICONHIC 2021 (22 – 24 June 2021 in Athens https://iconhic.com/2021/) :

https://iconhic.com/2021/session/physical-and-numerical-modelling-of-landslide-structure-interaction-lsi/

Attached flyer.

Sabatino Cuomo
University of Salerno, Italy

The University of Milan oragnizes a free online international workshop entitled “Shallow geothermal energy: from the ground to buildings, from the field to modelling”, taking place from 30 November to 3 December 2020 and featuring a number of speakers from both the academia and the industry.

Please find attached the relevant flyer and program.

The organising committee of AGERP is pleased to invite you to the 9th installment of the Lecture series, which will be on ‘Energy Geotechnics’. This is scheduled on 30th October 2020 (AEST). Registration (free and mandatory) for this lecture closes at 00:00, 29th October 2020 (AEST). This Lecture will be delivered by Professor Marcelo Sanchez (Texas A&M University, USA) and Dr. Fleur Loveridge (University of Leeds, England).
Further info. and registration (free but mandatory): https://www.age-rp.com/registration

For further information, please refer to the attached flier.

Dr. Partha Mishra and Professor Sarat Das,Convenor, AGERP

Dear Colleagues,
on Wednesday 28 October 2020, at 15:30 CET, Dr. Adrian Mifsud, lecturer at the University of Malta, Msida, will be deliveringa webinar titled:

“The Middle Globigerina Limestone, Malta: A study into the geotechnical characteristics with reference to engineering situations.”

The webinar is organised by the Geotechnical Research Group of DICATECh, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, and will be held on Microsoft Teams. No registration is required, participants can join the event by clicking on the following link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ODhiNjVmOTQtNTM1OC00YjE2LTkzZTYtMjU2MGVmYjQ5M2Qy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%225b406aab-a1f1-4f13-a7aa-dd573da3d332%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%224ea622af-265c-46ca-b01b-93f1eefd7dcd%22%7d

Please see the attached file for further details.

Speakers: Prof Robert Mair, Dr Chris Haberfield, Idy Li, Theva Muttuvel and Philippe Vincent

The 21^st Australian Geomechanics Society, Sydney Chapter will be organised on Friday 13 Nov 2020 8:30 am – 5:00 pm (AEST), fully online.

The symposium will showcase state-of-the-art practices, new research findings and case histories that demonstrate geotechnical advances and challenges in urban development. The organising committee invites papers on geotechnical aspects of urban development, underground structures, restoration of geotechnical structures, innovative and cost-efficient solutions, groundwater modelling and application of smart technologies. The symposium presents an opportunity for professional engineers, researchers, specialist contractors, regulators, educators and students to meet and share their knowledge and experiences in geotechnical engineering.

We invite you all to check the Programme and register as webinar attendant at our website https://australiangeomechanics.org/meetings/geotechnical-advances-and-challenges-in-urban-development/.

The registration for non members is AU$30.

For further information please contact Ali Parsa: aparsa@jkgeotechnics.com.au

Dear Powders and Grains community!

Our next granular matter webinar will take place October 22, 15:00 CET

Glass half full: Embracing the unexpected in granular systems
Speaker: Prof. Christine Hrenya, University of Colorado at Boulder

Full Details: https://www.springer.com/journal/10035/updates/18300828

The 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, E-UNSAT 2020–Unsaturated Horizons, supported by TC106 of the ISSMGE, will be next week, from 19 to 21 October 2020, fully online.

130 papers will be presented, focused on traditional geotechnical engineering applications on the domain of unsaturated soils, environmental problems (engineered barriers to protect the environment, the reuse of waste materials, climate stresses, sustainable geotechnical design) and new technologies (energy geotechnics and bio-inspired technologies).

We invite you all to check the Programme and register as webinar attendant at our website https://eunsat2020.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/

Best regards and keep safe,
Rafaela Cardoso, Cristina Jommi and Enrique Romero
Conference co-chairs

The University of Liverpool Division of Civil Engineering invites you to the following webinar: SANISAND-F: A fabric-based sand constitutive framework within anisotropic critical state theory by Dr Alexandros Petalas, Imperial College

Tuesday 13 October 2020 12.00 BST (13.00 CET)

Details of how to register can be found in the attached document. Alternatively, you can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4515941137085/WN_NFlZnLIqT5CeEwnbWsRueQ