Like in the previous years, a collection of photographs by David Mašín documents the Workshop of ALERT Geomaterials in Aussois 2014. The focus is on the PhD prize (a report will follow) and the Special lecture by Prof. Itai Einav. Thanks, David!
The invited Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2015 will be presented by Prof. Hans Muhlhaus from the University of Queensland. The envisaged title of his talk is Mechanical and hydraulic instabilities in Geomechanics.
The ALERT Geomaterials Workshop 2015 will be organized from Monday, 28 September till Wednesday, 30 September in Aussois, France. It will include the following sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, September 28)
From discrete methods to continuum methods: Applications, Problems and Solutions
Coordinators: Y. Dafalias, L. Sibille and E. Andò
Session 2 (Tuesday, September 29)
How should we teach geomechanics?
Coordinators: G. Viggiani and I. Herle
(a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, September 30)
Fracturing and fractured reservoirs
Coordinators: E. Papamichos, H. Lewis and G. Couples
ALERT Doctoral School on Coupled and multiphysics phenomena will follow the workshop.
The title of the ALERT Doctoral School 2015 is Coupled and multiphysics phenomena. It will take place in Aussois, October 1-3, 2015. The school organisers are Bernhard Schrefler (Università degli Studi di Padova), Lorenzo Sanavia (Università degli Studi di Padova) and Frederic Collin (Université de Liège).
The registration for the ALERT Workshop and School 2014 is closed! The final programme of the ALERT meeting 2014 can be downloaded as pdf. The paper version will be distributed to the participants in Aussois (hints on how to get to Aussois).
The deadline for submitting contributions to the ALERT Poster Session has been extended until September 20, 2014. The Poster Session will be held during the ALERT Workshop 2014 from September 29 to October 1 in Aussois. A booklet of abstracts (with an ISBN number) will be published too. Please submit your posters by email directly to the coordinator Donia Marzougui.
The registration for the ALERT Workshop and School 2014 is open now! You can register using the form at https://alertgeomaterials.eu/forms/registration.html . After filling the form and pressing the button “Register”, a window will open with your invoice. Please print the window with the invoice for your records! You will also get an email with the registration data afterwards. In case of the registration of ALERT members, the corresponding representative of the ALERT institution will receive the registration data too.
The deadline for the registration is September 15th! The accomodation in Aussois will be processed in the order of the registrations (see the hints in the registration form).
Hints on how to get to Aussois!
The preliminary programme for the ALERT workshop and school 2014 is avalable now!
The invited Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2014 will be presented by Prof. Itai Einav from University of Sydney. The envisaged title of his talk is Geomaterials under extremes.
The ALERT Poster session will be held during the ALERT Workshop from September 29 to October 1, 2014 in Aussois. Those who are interested are asked to submit their abstracts (both word/openoffice and pdf files are required) by email to the coordinator Donia Marzougui using the attached abstract form (files as odt and pdf). The deadline for the abstracts submission is September 10, 2014.
As announced already in October 2013, ALERT Workshop 2014 (25th Edition) will be held in Aussois from September 29 to October 1, 2014. Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, odt, pdf).
Since time for the presentations is limited, only a part of the submitted abstracts can be chosen for the 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, 2014. For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact directly the coordinators of the workshop sessions.