A PhD position in OpenFoam modelling of snow avalanches is available at the Division of Geotechnical and Tunnel Engineering at the University of Innsbruck. Further information can be found at: https://www.uibk.ac.at/geotechnik/bdsa_.html
The ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Winterschool 2018 on Natural versus compacted clayey soils: from micro to macro behaviour and modelling will be held from 5th to 9th of November 2018 in Bari, Italy. The school is organised by The Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Education, Research and Technology (ALERT), the Politecnico di Bari and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
For further information: federica.cotecchia@poliba.it; jean.vaunat@upc.edu; claudia.vitone@poliba.it
The mini-symposium MS40 – Mechanics and Physics of Granular Materials will be held in the EMI 2018 – MIT Boston, May 29 – June 1, 2018. Researchers are invited to submit an abstract to MS40 organized by the EMI Granular Materials Committee, from Oct 15, 2017 to Jan 31, 2018 in the link: ABSTRACT SUBMISSION, and register at: REGISTRATION
For more information, visit: CONFERENCE WEBSITE
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Researchers are invited to submit an abstract for the mini-symposium on hydraulics and mechanics of unsaturated porous that will be held in InterPore 2018, New Orleans, US.
Deadline for submitting abstracts: 15 Dec. 2017, 23:59 US/central timezone. Please select session number MS 1.21 when submitting the abstracts.
More information can be found on the corresponding website.
The presentations (that have been provided to the ALERT bureau) of the ALERT Workshop 2017 and the ALERT Doctoral School 2017 are now available online.
The accompanying book of the Doctoral School can be downloaded here.
The Ioannis Vardoulakis PhD Prize 2017 was granted to Anne-Catherine Dieudonné from Université de Liège (Belgium) and to Xiusong Shi from Technische Universität Dresden (Germany). The award ceremony and the presentation of the theses took place during the workshop in Aussois this year.
As every year, information on the chosen PhD(‘s) thesis/theses can be found on the corresponding website.
A PhD position in Soil Hydrology related to Shallow Landslides is available at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL.
Visit https://apply.refline.ch/273855/0767/pub/1/index.html for more information.
The last date for electronic submission of one-page abstracts for the forthcoming ComGeo IV has been extended to November 20, 2017. Abstracts in the MS Word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats should be submitted to pietrusz@mcmaster.ca with a copy to g.n.pande@swansea.ac.uk and claudio.tamagnini@unipg.it
ComGeo series of Symposia is a sequel to the long running Numerical Models in geomechanics (NUMOG) and aims to report and discuss latest developments in Computational Geomechanics. We have already received contributions from a number of prominent researchers including most of the members of the Scientific Committee. For more detailed information, please visit the ComGeo IV website at http://www.ic2e.org/comgeo-iv/
A Postdoctoral Position in Numerical Simulations of Landslides with the Material Point Method is available at the Aalto University.
For details please consult the attachment.
The 18th U.S. National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM). USNCTAM will be held Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 4 – 9, 2018. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the Computational Geomechanics Minisymposium (Symposium ID: 110). Continue reading