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
The Computational Geomechanics minisymposium (Session ID: 1701) is going to be held at the World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIII) in New York City from July 22-27th, 2018. The call for abstracts will be open between October 15 and December 31, 2017.
Researchers are invited to submit an abstract to the interactive poster session at EGU 2018 in Vienna on
Multi-scale measurements of the Earth’s properties and imaging techniques: from laboratory to large-scale Earth phenomena
More information can be found on the corresponding website.
David Mašín (Charles University, Prague) has documented the atmosphere of the ALERT PhD prize ceremony (winners are Anne-Catherine Dieudonné from Université de Liège and Xiusong Shi from Technische Universität Dresden) and the special lecture (given by Prof. William G. Gray) with photographs. Thanks, David!
The Andra R&D Division is looking for a Post-Doc for Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical modeling of large-scale in situ heating experiments.
For more details see the attachment.