Positions in Geomechanics and Porous Media research group at University Pau & Pays Adour

Available opening positions in Geomechanics and
Porous Media research group at University Pau & Pays Adour, Basque Coast Campus, Anglet, France:

– 2 PhD positions
– 1 postdoctoral position (1 year)
– 1 faculty position (Tenure-track Junior chair / Assistant Professor  – 5 years)

Details can be found in the website

China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, Vienna 13-16 August 2018

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the China-Europe Conference on geotechnical Engineering, in Vienna, 13-16 August 2018. There will be a large delegation from China including Hongkong and Taiwan, Europe and beyond. Please find the invitation bulletin for this conference in the attachment.

Please note that the abstracts are due on the 31st December, 2017. Abstracts can be uploaded via the conference website. The conference proceedings will be published in “Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering”.

More information on the conference is available at the website 

Two new PhD positions in numerical modelling in geomechanics at Charles University Prague

Two new PhD positions in numerical modelling in geomechanics are open at Charles University.
Starting date October 2018, supervisor D. Mašín, topics:
“Hypoplastic model for unsaturated expansive clays used in simulations of bentonite homogenization for nuclear waste repositories”
“Hypoplastic modelling of deformation and stability of internal landfill of open cast coal mine Bílina”

For more details, see http://www.stars-natur.cz/open-calls/geology-environmental-studies

2nd Yet Another Discrete Element Workshop — Discrete-based modeling of multi-scale coupled problems

Irstea and the international research network GdRI GeoMech invite you to participate in the 2nd Yet Another Discrete Element Workshop — Discrete-based modeling of multi-scale coupled problems to be held in Aix-en-Provence (France) on April 26-27, 2018.

This international workshop will discuss DEM or DEM-based modeling approaches in geomechanics, and is free of registration fees.

Abstract submission and registration are currently open, please see the workshop website.