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.
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International Doctoral School on unsaturated soil mechanics in Lausanne
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.
2nd level specializing master in “Tunnel Engineering” POLIMI
In March 2017 a 2nd level specializing master in “Tunnel Engineering” will be activated at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano (www.dica.polimi.it). The Director is Professor Claudio di Prisco. The master is open to candidates who have a Master of Science in Civil or Environmental Engineering. For foreign applicants, the master is open to students holding equivalent qualifications.
The deadline for the application is 13th February 2017. Information about the course and the application can be found on the master course website www.mastertunnelling.polimi.it. See also Master leaflet.
ICTMS 2017 – call for abstracts
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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EMI 2017 – San Diego USA – MS 71: Degradation and Healing in Particulate Systems
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 final deadline announcement
GeoProc deadline for abstract submission is now extended to: November 20, 2016. This extension is final.
Session on unsaturated soils at interpore 2017
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.
Presentations of the ALERT Doctoral School 2016
The presentations of the ALERT Doctoral School 2016 are now available online. The accompanying book of the Doctoral School can be downloaded here.
Presentations of the ALERT workshop 2016
The presentations of the ALERT workshop 2016 are now available online.
Mini-symposium on Hydro-mechanical Large Deformation Problems (in Geotechnical Engineering)
As an opportunity to present and discuss advances in the computational simulation of large deformation problems, a mini-symposium will be organized at the Interpore 2017 conference, 8-11 May 2017 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The conference works on the basis of submitted abstracts only (no papers) and then oral/poster presentations in a series of mini-symposiums. All participants will have the opportunity to orally present their work (15 mins for oral contributions or 3 mins for poster presenters, in addition to their poster). Abstract submission is now open until November 14th.
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