Minisymposium entitled Seismic Wave Analysis in Geomechanical Applications will take place at the ICNAAM 2013 (http://www.icnaam.org/) – 11th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Rhodes, Greece.
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The programme of the Alert Summerschool 2013 will be announced within the next weeks. The tentative list of speakers comprises Gary Couples, Helen Lewis, Boris Kaus, Taras Gerya, Laetitia LePourhiet, Matthias Klinkmueller, Hannah Pomella.
The summerschool will take place in the central building of the Innsbruck university. Hence, persons wishing to attend should register at geotechnik@uibk.ac.at or contact Mrs. Sarah-Jane Loretz-Theodorine, +43 512 507 6671. The participation fees are 200,- Euro, however the Summerschool is free of charges for participants attached to ALERT. Upon acceptance the participants are requested to find and book their accommodation in Innsbruck.
Mini-symposia entitled Effective stress principle in multi-phase systems and Bio-cementation and bio-clogging in porous media: fundamentals and engineering applications will be held at the 5th international conference on Porous media, http://www.interpore.org/events?task=view_event&event_id=16, May 21-24, 2013 Prague, Czech Republic.
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Shamsher Prakash Foundation solicits nomination (no application) for the 2013 SHAMSHER PRAKASH RESEARCH AWARD for young engineers, scientists and researchers (40 years or younger, Date of Birth 03-31-72 or later) from all over the world. Nominations are invited so as to reach the Honorary Secretary on or before March 31, 2013.
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The Géotechnique Symposium in Print on “Bio- and Chemo- Mechanical processes in geotechnical engineering” will be held in London. Event registration for the 3rd June 2013 at the Institution of Civil Engineers is open here, and a summary programme can be accessed on that page. The volumes of the Symposium are to be published as the two March 2013 editions of the journal.
The Third International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics (ComGeo III) will take place at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Krakow, Poland, 21-23 August, 2013. The last date for electronic submission of one-page abstracts for ComGeo III is January 31, 2013. Abstracts should be submitted in MS Word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. Please send the file by email to pietrusz@mcmaster.ca with a copy to g.n.pande@swansea.ac.uk. For details, see the conference website.
A session devoted to Unsaturated granular medium and clay engineering will take place within the International Congress CERMODEL 2013 – Modeling and Simulations meet
Innovation in Ceramic Technology at Trento, Italy, July 10-12, 2013. For further details see http://events.unitn.it/en/cermodel2013 and pdf.
The 2012 issue of the W(H)YDOC Workshop was successfully held in Paris (Ecole des ponts) from 21 to 23 November. Like in previous issues (2002, 2005, 2008), ALERT was a partner of the event with various doctors from ALERT partners presenting their work. The Workshop was also supported by the GEOEXCEL European network (Pierre and Marie Curie actions) between Europe and Latin-America. Keynote lectures have been given by Profs K. Scrivener (EPF Lausanne), M. Coop (City University, Hong-Kong) and L. Guimaraes (University Federal of Pernambuco, Brasil). The attendance was quite international with the presentations of doctors from Belgium, Brasil, China, Czek Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA. The W(H)YDOC 2012 prize has been given to Anna Ramon from UPC Barcelona for her work entitled “Crystal growth under bridge foundation” conducted under the guidance of Prof. E.E. Alonso.
The ALERT Summerschool (Olek Zienkiewicz Course) 2013 entitled Geology and Mechanics will be organized by Prof. Dimitrios Kolymbas and held in Innsbruck, 16-20 September 2013.
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A two and a half day workshop will be held at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland for the purpose of exploring and advancing the use of Thermo-active Geotechnical systems for Near-surface Geothermal Energy as a sustainable geoengineering practice. Continue reading