The 6th Biot Conference on Poromechanics ( http://biot2017.sciencesconf.org/ ) will be held just outside of Paris, France, at École des Ponts ParisTech and IFSTTAR, from July 9 to July 13, 2017. The Biot conference is organized only once every 4 years and is the main international event for experts in poromechanics. All topics related to porous solids that deform and contain one or several pore fluids are relevant. This edition will be held as a tribute to Olivier Coussy (1953-2010), who was the first recipient of the ASCE Biot medal. Deadline for abstract submission is September 15, 2016. Further details may be found on the attached flyer.

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, likes to invite you to an international workshop on “effective stress in multiphase geomaterials”. Details can be found in the pdf file.

Advanced course on Modeling of Localized Inelastic Deformation (LID 2016) will be taught by Milan Jirásek in Prague, Czech Republic, 19-23 September 2016.
This course provides an overview of modeling approaches used in the mechanics of inelastic materials and structures, with special attention to the 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 http://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2016.html
For registration please contact Milan.Jirasek@fsv.cvut.cz .

The 3rd International Conference on Tomography of Materials and Structures will be held in Lund, Sweden, 26th – 30th June 2017.
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The next Powders and Grains conference is organized by Franck Radjai in Montpellier. The Powders and Grains is an influential conference in which participate every four years many researchers from different disciplines including in particular geomaterials community from all over the world. The next conference will take place in Montpellier from 3 to 7 July, 2017. The website of the event is open for abstract submission (until 5 June, 2016). Please find herewith the call for abstracts and flyer of the conference.

In the frame of EURO:TUN 2017, 18-20 April 2017, Innsbruck, Austria (eurotun2017.com) a Mini-Symposium „Simulation of cutting, wear and abrasion“ will be organized by Dimitrios Kolymbas (dimitrios.kolymbas@uibk.ac.at). Abstracts (up to 1 page) to be submitted until 1. June 2016 to https://www.conftool.net/eurotun2017/. Templates are given at http://www.eurotun2017.com/de/registration/submit-contribution/.

The second PETRUS-OPERA PhD early-stage researcher conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Geological Disposal will take place in Delft, 27 June – 1 July, 2016. The conference consists of two main components:
– A set of high quality lectures on radioactive waste disposal presented by international experts.
– Oral presentation and poster exhibition of on-going research work by participants. The best oral and poster presentations will be rewarded.
PhD students and early-stage researchers who are involved in any aspects of radioactive waste research are invited to submit an extended abstract of 1-3 pages. Research subjects from the social and economic areas related to the radioactive waste management are welcome too.
The conference is free of charge. For more information please see the attached pdf or www.petrus-opera2016.eu.