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

ALERT Workshop 2013 – Call for abstracts

As announced already in October 2012, ALERT Workshop 2013 (24th Edition) will be held in Aussois from September 30 to October 2, 2013. Please don’t forget to submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, pdf).

Since time for the presentations is limited, only part of the abstracts submitted will be chosen for oral presentations. Therefore, we invite you to submit your abstract as soon as possible. The presentation can also be submitted as a poster. The deadline for the abstract submission is April 30, 2013 . For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact directly the organizers of the sessions.