The ALERT Workshop 2017 (28th Edition) will be held in Aussois from 2nd October to 4th October, 2017. Abstracts can only be submitted to the first and third session (Monday and Wednesday, respectively), because the second half-day session on Tuesday will be held by invited speakers only. Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, odt, pdf). If you wish to publish your presentation after the Workshop on the ALERT website, do not forget to agree by ticking the corresponding box in the abstract form. Continue reading
PhD candidate position at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
A four-year PhD candidate position is available at the Division of Soil and rock mechanics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Continue reading
Video of the ALERT Special lecture 2016
The video of Prof. Takashi Matsushima giving the Special lecture at the annual meeting in Aussois 2016 is now available online. The lecture was entitled Planetary Geomechanics.
Southeast Symposium of Recent Developments in Geotechnics
The Southeast Symposium of Recent Developments in Geotechnics is going to be held at Southeast University, Nanjing, P.R. China from 8th to 9th of July 2017.
Further information on the programme of the symposium and the organisation can be found the in attachment.
PhD position at the University Grenoble Alpes in France
A PhD position is available at the University Grenoble Alpes in France on “Micro-macro modelling by the method of discrete elements (DEM) of the long-term behaviour of shaft seals under hydraulic-gas loading”.
Workshop on Shallow geothermal systems. Applications and perspectives
In the aim of project Success (http://success.lnec.pt/index_en.php) funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology the Workshop on Shallow geothermal systems. Applications and perspectives will take place in Aveiro University (Portugal) on the 8th May 2017.
Further information can be found in the attachment.
PhD position at IRSN and University Pierre et Marie Curie in France
A PhD position is available at IRSN and University Pierre et Marie Curie in France. The PhD project title is “Modeling of 2-phase flows at the pore scale in deformable media using particulate methods (SPH)”.
Please see the detailed description.
Autumn School “Moisture measurement in porous mineral materials”
The school focuses on the needs of graduate students and PhD students but is also open for senior researchers in science and industry, see the attached pdf file.
Postdoctoral position at UPC
A Postdoctoral position is open at UPC, see the pdf file.
PhD studentship in Computational Geotechnics at the University of Bath, UK
A PhD studentship in Computational Geotechnics is open at the University of Bath, UK: “Resilient design of heat-exchanger piles for sustainable use of geothermal energy”. The deadline for application is the 30th April 2017. Attached is a description of the vacancy.