There will be a co-convened session (NH3.7, GM8.5, SSS2.24) on “Mechanics of mass flows” during the 2017 EGU Congress in Vienna (23-28 April). It should be of particular interest for granular flow researchers. More details are available here:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/session/23050
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/sessionprogramme
Note the strict submission deadline for abstracts: 11th Jan 2017 at 13:00 CET.

The next International Conference on Debris Flow Hazards Mitigation will be held in Golden, Colorado USA on June 10-13, 2019. Field trips will take place both before and after those dates. Attached please find a brief flyer announcing the meeting: more details are available at http://dfhm7.csmspace.com. A call for abstracts will be announced in late 2017.

In the framework of the Mari-Curie Innovative Training Networks project TERRE (www.terre-etn.com), the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is proud to host an International Doctoral School dedicated to Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.

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The first call for abstracts for the 3rd International Conference on Tomography of Materials and Structures, which will be held in Lund, Sweden, 26th – 30th June 2017 is now open. ICTMS 2017 is the 3rd biannual conference of IntACT (International Association of Computed Tomography), following very successful meetings in Ghent (2013) and Quebec City (2015), and will focus on the use of 3D tomographic methods for (non-medical) studies of the internal structures of materials and their evolution. More details can be found at: http://ictms2017.lth.se
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Minisymposium titled “Degradation and healing in particulate systems” will be held at the EMI Conference, 2017 in San Diego, USA, organized by the Granular Materials Committee members in the forthcoming EMI-2017 conference, June 4 – 7, 2017. Please find attached all the details of the Minisymposium in the call of abstracts pdf file.
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GeoProc deadline for abstract submission is now extended to: November 20, 2016. This extension is final.

A minisymposium on recent developments in unsaturated soil and unsaturated porous media mechanics will be held during/at InterPore 2017 (Rotterdam, May 8-11, 2017). The session is entitled MS1.5 Constitutive framework for unsaturated porous media: experimental challenges and modeling opportunities. Abstract submission information is available at the following link: https://www.interpore.org/116-event-booking/9th-international-conference-on-porous-media-annual-meeting/318-abstract-uploading-16. The extended deadline is November 21.