Minisymposium titled “Degradation and healing in particulate systems” will be held at the EMI Conference, 2017 in San Diego, USA, organized by the Granular Materials Committee members in the forthcoming EMI-2017 conference, June 4 – 7, 2017. Please find attached all the details of the Minisymposium in the call of abstracts pdf file.
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The Department of Civil Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham invites applications for an Assistant / Associate Professorship in Geotechnical Engineering, see http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/ENG369516.
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A research position is available in the Geotechnics Section at Imperial College London. The position is funded by the UK EPSRC. The research project will involve coupled particle-fluid simulation of internal erosion. Full details are available via the website of Dr. Catherine O’Sullivan (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/cath.osullivan).
A PhD position at Newcastle University is available in Civil Engineering on Discrete Element Method modelling of non-spherical particles: application to geomaterials, process and mining engineering. More details in the pdf file.
GeoProc deadline for abstract submission is now extended to: November 20, 2016. This extension is final.
A minisymposium on recent developments in unsaturated soil and unsaturated porous media mechanics will be held during/at InterPore 2017 (Rotterdam, May 8-11, 2017). The session is entitled MS1.5 Constitutive framework for unsaturated porous media: experimental challenges and modeling opportunities. Abstract submission information is available at the following link: https://www.interpore.org/116-event-booking/9th-international-conference-on-porous-media-annual-meeting/318-abstract-uploading-16. The extended deadline is November 21.
The presentations of the ALERT Doctoral School 2016 are now available online. The accompanying book of the Doctoral School can be downloaded here.
The presentations of the ALERT workshop 2016 are now available online.
A PhD Position is available in Geotechnical Engineering at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. More details in the pdf file.
The geotechnical engineering group of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Northwestern University is seeking PhD applicants for new doctoral positions starting in the Fall 2017. Successful candidates should have a master’s degree in civil engineering, geomechanics, applied mechanics or related disciplines and a strong background in continuum mechanics, numerical modelling and geotechnical engineering.
Interested candidates should contact Prof. James Hambleton (jphambleton at northwestern.edu), Prof. Giuseppe Buscarnera (g-buscarnera at northwestern.edu) or Prof. Richard Finno (r-finno at northwestern.edu). The deadline for applications is December 31 2016. Further information can be found at http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/admission/application-deadlines.html.