Geomechanics and Geophysics Symposium at EMI 2024

The 2024 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference will be hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and held in Chicago from May 28—31, 2024

Ghassan Shahin, John Rudnicki, and Giuseppe Buscarnera would like to invite you to contribute to the mini-symposium Advances in Geomechanics and Geophysics for Sub-surface Technology and Natural Hazard (MS 0502). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • multiscale mechanics and multiphysics of geomaterials
  • fault mechanics, rock fracturing, and strain localization
  • field and laboratory methods
  • constitutive, multiscale, and data-driven modelling
  • instability theories
  • field-scale studies

Abstract submission is now open and will remain open until December 31, 2023. Information on submitting an abstract may be found here.

We hope you will submit an abstract to the conference and meet in Chicago!

EMI / Granular Materials Symposium

Dear Colleague,

The Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference 2024 will be held in Chicago, Illinois, from May 28 to 31, 2024.

With this email, Prof. Marcial Gonzalez, Prof. Ryan Hurley, and Alessandro F. Rotta Loria would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the mini-symposium “MS 0117: Mechanics and Physics of Granular Materials.” You will find the abstract associated with this minisymposium in this pdf file.

The deadline for abstract submissions is December 31, 2023. If you are planning to participate and contribute to this event, you may upload your abstract online through the following link: https://www.emi-conference.org/call-abstracts.

We hope we will have the pleasure of seeing you in Chicago and discussing your work as a part of this minisymposium.

Invitation to the 5th European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics

Dear Colleagues,

The 5th European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ECPMG) will take place from October 2nd to 4th, 2024, in Delft in the Netherlands. Abstract Submission is open till November 17th, 2023, followed by a two to six pages long paper till Feburary 1st, 2024.

Please check the website https://tc104-issmge.com/ecpmg-2024/ for further information and registration, and share the flyer in the attachment within your network. We are looking forward to host you in Delft!

Kind regards,

Suzanne van Eekelen & Miguel Cabrera

CREAMS (CREep Across Materials and Scales) international workshop

We would like to inform you that researchers from the Laboratoire Navier, the LMPS (ENS Paris Saclay) and the Centre de Géosciences (Ecole des Mines ParisTech) are organising the CREAMS (CREep Across Materials and Scales) international workshop with co-funding from the Laboratoire Navier, the LABEX MMCD and the DIM MaTeRe.

The objective of this workshop is to explore the various approaches employed by different scientific communities in investigating creep phenomena in solids. Specialists in the fields of cementitious materials, bio-sourced materials, glasses + amorphous materials, and rocks + soils will discuss different materials and scales at which creep processes are observed.

We invite everybody to this workshop that will be held on 9 and 10 November at ENPC close to Paris (France).

The programme and all the necessary information about this event are available online at: https://creams.sciencesconf.org/

Online registration is free and mandatory, subject to the number of places available.

A poster session will be devoted to those interested in presenting their work, related to the workshop theme. We strongly encourage doctoral and post-doctoral students to participate. All you have to do is register on the website and submit an abstract (max. 400 words) by 24 October.

Please reserve these dates and share this announcement within your network!

2nd International Conference on Microbial Biotechnology in Construction Materials and Geotechnical Engineering (MBCMG 2024)

Dear Colleagues,

Nanyang Technological University together with NTU CEE Alumni Association is organizing 2nd International Conference on Microbial Biotechnology in Construction Materials and Geotechnical Engineering (MBCMG 2024) from 15th and 16th of August 2024 in Singapore.  This conference is gracefully supported by Geotechnical Society of Singapore (GeoSS), ISSMGE Technical Committee TC211 on Ground Improvement, ISSMGE Technical Committee TC217 on Land Reclamation, American Concrete Institute (Singapore Chapter), and BioGeotechnics (An International Journal). We would like to invite you to participate this conference to catch up with latest development in one of the fastest developing R&D areas in construction materials and geotechnical engineering together with the other participants around the world.

The conference involves a wide range of topics related to biogeotechnologies. It will be an insightful gathering, drawing together a diverse audience of academics, developers, design engineers, and postgraduate students who share a profound interest in bio-mediated soil behaviour and bio-inspired construction materials.

For further details regarding the conference, please visit our official website at www.2icmbcge.com. Should you have any inquiries or require further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at < chao.shi@ntu.edu.sg > < sfwu@ntu.edu.sg > or < kangda.wang@ntu.edu.sg >.

We look forward to welcoming you to Singapore in August 2024.

Prof. CHU Jian
Conference Chair
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of MBCMG 2024s

GOING TO AUSSOIS BY TRAIN – LAST UPDATE – BUS LOCATION

Dear colleagues,

For those of you coming by train to Aussois this year, we have booked a transportation by bus between the Chambéry station and the Centre Paul-Langevin. Here are the final information:

  • Sunday 24/09 at 18:30, a bus will leave the station. There is space for 100 people so don’t worry, you’ll get on the bus!
  • Wednesday 27/09 at 18:45, a bus will arrive at the station. It should therefore leave the Centre Paul-Langevin at around 16:45. Of course, the bus will come back to the Centre with the people coming for the doctoral school.
  • Saturday 30/09 at 15:00, a bus will arrive at the station. It should therefore leave the Centre Paul-Langevin at around 13:00.

The bus will meet you at the “Gare Routière de Chambéry”, 250m from the Station “Challes-Les-Eaux”. You can see the plan below for more detailed instructions.

We hope this solution suits everyone, see you in Aussois!

Going to Aussois by train: Update

Dear colleagues,

For those of you coming by train to Aussois this year, we have booked a transportation by bus between the Chambéry station and the Centre Paul-Langevin. Here are the final information:

  • Sunday 24/09 at 18:30, a bus will leave the station. There is space for 100 people so don’t worry, you’ll get on the bus!
  • Wednesday 27/09 at 18:45, a bus will arrive at the station. It should therefore leave the Centre Paul-Langevin at around 16:45. Of course, the bus will come back to the Centre with the people coming for the doctoral school.
  • Saturday 30/09 at 15:00, a bus will arrive at the station. It should therefore leave the Centre Paul-Langevin at around 13:00.

We hope this solution suits everyone, see you in Aussois!

Information about ALERT Doctoral School 2023

Dear participants,

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the 2023 ALERT Doctoral School on “Machine Learning in Geomechanics”.

Don’t forget to bring your laptop and refresh your knowledge in Python.

Please also fill out the following survey, which will be very helpful for the teachers:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdR7_LVY4s0fNfl6d-Imuw6PLBYfuUV5uah4AqWAU3dsahFog/viewform

Best regards, Felix Darve and Ioannis Stefanou

Invitation to the Pan IIT Lecture series on Geotechnical Engineering: AGERP 2023

Thank you for your support to the AGERP lecture series from the past three years. At AGERP’20 AGERP’21, and AGERP’22, we have had 38 lectures and 1 panel discussion that brought together more than 40 renowned geoengineering experts and a huge audience from 126 countries through a free to access knowledge sharing platform. Apart from the generous support from the experts that appeared in the past three editions of, it is your participation and appreciation that largely contributed to the success of AGERP.

In the first three editions of the AGERP lecture series, we covered quite a breadth of topics related to geotechnical engineering. In the fourth edition, we are looking forward to offering the global audience a glimpse of the cutting-edge research conducted in the field of geotechnical engineering by the top engineering institutions in India – the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). To that end,  we are pleased to invite you to the PAN IIT Lecture series on Geotechnical Engineering, scheduled to be held on 19th to 20th September 2023 (India | Australia). You may register for the workshop at www.age-rp.com. Program for the workshop is summarised in the Flyer (In IST and AEST).