Summer school on Modelling of Landslides and Debris Flow

A summer school on the Modelling of Landslides and Debris Flow, aimed at early stage researchers (i.e. PhD students), organized and funded by the MUMOLADE [www.mumolade.com] ITN network, will be hosted this September at BOKU University, Vienna. The scientific programme provides key lectures on computational plasticity (R. Borja), unsaturated soil mechanics (C. Tamagnini, P. Delage), and the behavior of a granular flow (C. Fang). For more information on the programme and full grants please visit the summer school’s website [www.baunat.boku.ac.at/22552.html].
The deadline for applications is 18 August 2013.

ALERT Workshop 2013 – extended deadline

The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the ALERT Workshop 2013 has been extended up to May 31!

Workshop sessions:

Session 1 (Monday, September 30)
Geomechanics of slopes
Coordinators: Claudio di Prisco and Leonardo Cascini

Session 2 (Tuesday, October 1)
Contact problems in geomechanics

Coordinators: Euripides Papamichos and Jean Sulem
(this will be only a half-day exploratory workshop)

Session 3 (Wednesday, October 2)
Degradation in geomaterials
Coordinators: Ali Daouadji, Christophe Dano and Erich Bauer

Registration deadline for the ALERT summerschool in Innsbruck

The registration deadline for the Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Summerschool) on GEOLOGY AND MECHANICS, taking place 16-20 September 2013 in Innsbruck, is 31 May 2013! Details for this summerschool you can find at http://www.uibk.ac.at/geotechnik/graphics/pics/summerschool_geology_and_mechanics.pdf. Early booking of accommodation in Innsbruck is recommended.

US-France workshop in Aussois

An international US-France workshop jointly proposed by ICACM (International Center for Applied Computational Mechanics) and INDURA (Infrastructures Durables en Rhône-Alpes) will be held in Aussois (France), May 22-24th 2013. In the following of the previous successful events (since 2007), this workshop is devoted to: Mean-stress dependent materials: recent advances and applications to natural risks. Continue reading