Dear Colleague,

The Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference 2024 will be held in Chicago, Illinois, from May 28 to 31, 2024.

With this email, Prof. Marcial Gonzalez, Prof. Ryan Hurley, and Alessandro F. Rotta Loria would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the mini-symposium “MS 0117: Mechanics and Physics of Granular Materials.” You will find the abstract associated with this minisymposium in this pdf file.

The deadline for abstract submissions is December 31, 2023. If you are planning to participate and contribute to this event, you may upload your abstract online through the following link: https://www.emi-conference.org/call-abstracts.

We hope we will have the pleasure of seeing you in Chicago and discussing your work as a part of this minisymposium.

Dear Colleagues,

The 5^th European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ECPMG) will take place from October 2^nd to 4^th, 2024, in Delft in the Netherlands. Abstract Submission is open till November 17^th, 2023, followed by a two to six pages long paper till Feburary 1^st, 2024.

Please check the website https://tc104-issmge.com/ecpmg-2024/ for further information and registration, and share the flyer in the attachment within your network. We are looking forward to host you in Delft!

Kind regards,

Suzanne van Eekelen & Miguel Cabrera

We would like to inform you that researchers from the Laboratoire Navier, the LMPS (ENS Paris Saclay) and the Centre de Géosciences (Ecole des Mines ParisTech) are organising the CREAMS (CREep Across Materials and Scales) international workshop with co-funding from the Laboratoire Navier, the LABEX MMCD and the DIM MaTeRe.

The objective of this workshop is to explore the various approaches employed by different scientific communities in investigating creep phenomena in solids. Specialists in the fields of cementitious materials, bio-sourced materials, glasses + amorphous materials, and rocks + soils will discuss different materials and scales at which creep processes are observed.

We invite everybody to this workshop that will be held on 9 and 10 November at ENPC close to Paris (France).

The programme and all the necessary information about this event are available online at: https://creams.sciencesconf.org/

Online registration is free and mandatory, subject to the number of places available.

A poster session will be devoted to those interested in presenting their work, related to the workshop theme. We strongly encourage doctoral and post-doctoral students to participate. All you have to do is register on the website and submit an abstract (max. 400 words) by 24 October.

Please reserve these dates and share this announcement within your network!

Dear Colleagues,

Nanyang Technological University together with NTU CEE Alumni Association is organizing 2nd International Conference on Microbial Biotechnology in Construction Materials and Geotechnical Engineering (MBCMG 2024) from 15th and 16th of August 2024 in Singapore.  This conference is gracefully supported by Geotechnical Society of Singapore (GeoSS), ISSMGE Technical Committee TC211 on Ground Improvement, ISSMGE Technical Committee TC217 on Land Reclamation, American Concrete Institute (Singapore Chapter), and BioGeotechnics (An International Journal). We would like to invite you to participate this conference to catch up with latest development in one of the fastest developing R&D areas in construction materials and geotechnical engineering together with the other participants around the world.

The conference involves a wide range of topics related to biogeotechnologies. It will be an insightful gathering, drawing together a diverse audience of academics, developers, design engineers, and postgraduate students who share a profound interest in bio-mediated soil behaviour and bio-inspired construction materials.

For further details regarding the conference, please visit our official website at www.2icmbcge.com. Should you have any inquiries or require further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at < chao.shi@ntu.edu.sg > < sfwu@ntu.edu.sg > or < kangda.wang@ntu.edu.sg >.

We look forward to welcoming you to Singapore in August 2024.

Prof. CHU Jian
Conference Chair
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of MBCMG 2024s

Thank you for your support to the AGERP lecture series from the past three years. At AGERP’20 AGERP’21, and AGERP’22, we have had 38 lectures and 1 panel discussion that brought together more than 40 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 the past three editions of, it is your participation and appreciation that largely contributed to the success of AGERP.

In the first three editions of the AGERP lecture series, we covered quite a breadth of topics related to geotechnical engineering. In the fourth edition, we are looking forward to offering the global audience a glimpse of the cutting-edge research conducted in the field of geotechnical engineering by the top engineering institutions in India – the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). To that end,  we are pleased to invite you to the PAN IIT Lecture series on Geotechnical Engineering, scheduled to be held on 19th to 20th September 2023 (India | Australia). You may register for the workshop at www.age-rp.com. Program for the workshop is summarised in the Flyer (In IST and AEST).

The journal Géotechnique is hosting an event on the 27^th October 2023 at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London to celebrate its 75^th anniversary (https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/page/ice-news/geot75). We wish to gather the geotechnical community to cherish Géotechnique’s past research and look forward, to future fundamental and applied research.

The day is organised around three main themes:

• Theme 1 – Soil micromechanics: from surface physics and chemistry to macro engineering applications
• Theme 2 – Bio-assisted geotechnics: effective strategy in a Net Zero Carbon World?
• Theme 3 – Artificial Intelligence in geotechnics: virtual dream or practical reality?

Each theme session will include:

• Introductory Lecture offering a multidisciplinary perspective of the research theme (Lecturers are Prof Carlos Santamarina, Prof Glyn Bengough, and Prof Darren Wilkinson)
• Géotechnique Research Lecture to cherish the past and look forward to the future (Lecturers are Prof Catherine O’Sullivan, Prof Jason DeJong and Prof Antonio Correia)
• Discussion
• Poster session (10 posters per theme)

The event programme is available here.
Tickets are available here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/geotechnique-75th-anniversary-2368059