ALERT OZ course (Summerschool) on “Geomechanics of landslides”

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The 8th ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Summerschool) on “Geomechanics of landslides” will be held at the University of Salerno from the 5th to the 9th of September 2016. This year, the OZ course will be jointly held with the LARAM school (LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation).

Information on the OZ course can be found on the LARAM website. The deadline for the registration is the 15th of June 2016, the deadline for the bank transfer is the 1st of July 2016. Please use the registration form.

ALERT Workshop 2016 – 2nd call for abstracts

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As announced already in October 2015, the ALERT Workshop 2016 (27th Edition) will be held in Aussois from October 3 to October 5, 2016. 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.

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 abstracts of the posters will be published in a separate booklet (ISSN registered).

The deadline for the abstract submission is April 30, 2016. For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact the coordinators of the workshop sessions directly.

Ioannis Vardoulakis PhD Prize 2016

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The Bureau of ALERT Geomaterials has decided to fund the ALERT PhD Prize 2016. Starting this year, the PhD prize will be entitled Ioannis Vardoulakis PhD Prize to commemorate Prof. Vardoulakis and his contributions to research and teaching in the field of Geomechanics.

The participation to the prize is open to all the PhD students coming from institutions belonging to ALERT, that have discussed their PhD thesis in 2015. The deadline for the applications is May 31, 2016. The application procedure was changed and has to be done completely online via the application form.

The rules and further details are to be found on the Alert website:
https://alertgeomaterials.eu/alert-phd-prize/

Position of Doctoral Candidate at Aalto University, Finland

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Aalto University School of Engineering in Finland has launched an open call for Doctoral Candidate in Modelling of failure and post-failure behavior of granular slopes with Generalized Interpolation Material Point Method. Please find attached a pdf file with the job advertisement for the position, and a link to the advertisement at Aalto University webpage: http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/759/. Deadline for the applications is May 10th 2016.

PhD conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Geoloigcal Disposal

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The second PETRUS-OPERA PhD early-stage researcher conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Geological Disposal will take place in Delft, 27 June – 1 July, 2016. The conference consists of two main components:
– A set of high quality lectures on radioactive waste disposal presented by international experts.
– Oral presentation and poster exhibition of on-going research work by participants. The best oral and poster presentations will be rewarded.
PhD students and early-stage researchers who are involved in any aspects of radioactive waste research are invited to submit an extended abstract of 1-3 pages. Research subjects from the social and economic areas related to the radioactive waste management are welcome too.
The conference is free of charge. For more information please see the attached pdf or www.petrus-opera2016.eu.