Following on from a mini-symposium on Soil-Atmosphere Interaction at the IACMAG (http://www.iacmag.net/#!conferences/c1f4i) conference, a themed issue of Environmental Geotechnics is being planned.

In spite of soil-atmosphere interaction providing the boundary condition to many surface and near surface geotechnical infrastructure, detailed knowledge and modelling of the processes remain rather poor, and still deserve new research and development. Contributions are being sought on aspects of Soil-Atmosphere Interaction such as wetting/drying, unsaturated transport, soil desiccation, vegetation, freeze/thaw, and on any engineering application influenced by such processes.

Abstract submission has been extended to be open until 15th April 2015, with full papers anticipated to be submitted by June. Please see the attached advert for submission details.

The invited session From Discrete Particles to Continuum Models of Granular Mechanics, to be held at the Particles 2015 conference, Sept 28-30 in Barcelona, Spain. The session is divided into the three parts below, with corresponding session codes listed:

Part I. Elasticity and Wave Propagation (session code is “22”)
Part II. Quasi-static Elastoplastic Flows (session code is “23”)
Part III. Rapid Granular Flows (session code is “24”)

The deadline for abstract submission is February 2, 2015.

The mini-symposium titled “Unsaturated poromechanics: experimental, theoretical and numerical studies” (MS 1.14) will be held in InterPore 2015 conference (May 18 – 21, 2015, Padova, Italy).
Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: Wed, 14 January, 2015 (this deadline is approaching, please check the website for possible extension of the deadline, if any).
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A Winter School on the modelling of variably saturated porous materials, aimed at early stage researchers (i.e. PhD students), will be held from 19-23 of January 2015. The winter school is organised and hosted by the University of Padua, Italy. A limited number of full grants is provided and funded by the MUMOLADE initial training network. For more information on the scientific programme, full grants, and registration please visit the winter school’s website or see the attached flyer.

A special session on Geomaterials will be organised during the 10th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics. The conference takes place at the Heriot Watt University from the 1st to the 3rd of September, see the poster of the session and the link to the conference pre-call: http://www.bssm.org/default.asp?p=6&event=186.

The British Society for Strain Measurement’s (BSSM) 10th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics will offer industry and academia the opportunity to present current developments in experimental mechanics. It will take place at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 1-3 September 2015. More details at the preliminary webpage.

As part of EMI Conference 2015, Stanford, 16-19 June, the following minisymposium will be organized: Mechanics of unsaturated porous materials: From geo-materials and building materials, to food and beyond. Please see the attached file for details.
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XV Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
VI International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials
VIII South American Congress of Rock Mechanics
take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 15 to 18, 2015, see the webpage. The abstract submission will close on Thursday, 31 October 2014.
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