We would like to inform you of Euromech colloquium 539 entitled “Mechanics of Unsaturated Porous Media: Effective stress principle from micromechanics to thermodynamics” which will be held at the Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University (Utrecht, The Netherlands), 27-30 August 2012.
The ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Course (Summerschool 2012) entitled Constitutive Modelling of Soils will be held from Monday September 17 to Friday September 21, 2012 at the Technical University Dresden, Germany.
A formless application for the participation should be submitted by e-mail to Erik Nacke not later than May 31, 2012. The number of participants is limited and the registration will be confirmed until June, 10.
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A session on “Rock Physics and Natural Hazards” at the EGU Meeting will be held in Vienna, Austria from 22 to 27 April 2012 (for details see http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9082).
Invited speakers
Prof. C. Scholz, Columbia University, USA
Dr. N. De Paola, University of Durham, England
Prof. K. Russell, University of Vancouver, Canada
Deadline for receiving abstracts is 17th January 2012
The fourth Alert Geomaterials Local Doctoral Course will be held from Monday September 17 to Friday September 21, 2012 in Dresden. The topic is Constitutive Modelling of Soils.
ALERT Workshop 2012 will be organized from Monday October 1st till Wednesday October 3rd and Doctoral School from Thursday October 4th till Saturday 6th in Aussois.
Workshop sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, October 1st)
Micromechanics and critical steady states in geomaterials
Coordinators: Yannis Dafalias and Bruno Chareyre
Session 2 (Tuesday, October 2nd)
Geomechanics of underground structures
Coordinators: Claudio Tamagnini and David Mašín
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 3rd)
Geomechanics for energy production
Coordinators: Lyesse Laloui and Helen Lewis
The title of the Doctoral School is Advanced experimental techniques in geomechanics and the coordinators are Cino Viggiani, Steve Hall and Enrique Romero.