Faculty Tenure Track Position in Geotechnical Engineering at Northwestern University

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University invites applicants for a tenure track faculty position in geotechnical engineering. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, soil-structure interaction, numerical modeling, geo-mechanics, retaining structures, geotechnical earthquake engineering and flow through porous media. This position is open to mid-career and senior candidates with an earned Ph.D., the ability to establish a well-funded program of independent and collaborative research, and strong teaching skills.
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Conference on Coupled Problems 2015

VI International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering – COUPLED PROBLEMS 2015 will take place in San Servolo, Venice, Italy, 18-20 May 2015. There will be an invited session “Computational Models and Methods for Multiphysics Processes in Multiphase Porous Media”
(session code 6) organized by Lorenzo Sanavia and Claudio Tamagnini.
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ALERT poster session – new deadline

The deadline for submitting contributions to the ALERT Poster Session has been extended until September 20, 2014. The Poster Session will be held during the ALERT Workshop 2014 from September 29 to October 1 in Aussois. A booklet of abstracts (with an ISBN number) will be published too. Please submit your posters by email directly to the coordinator Donia Marzougui.

New Journal – Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment

A new Elsevier journal entitled GEOMECHANICS FOR ENERGY and the ENVIRONMENT (GETE) has been established.
The scope of the journal is designed as broad, emphasizing fundamental concepts in multi-phase geomechanics and mechanics of porous media, the experiments and analysis of novel phenomena and applications. In terms of areas of specific technologies, it encourages research manuscripts covering geomechanics for natural and enhanced geothermal energy, geological solutions in disposal, storage and retrieval of nuclear, hazardous and domestic waste, resource engineering and mining, conventional and unconventional petroleum engineering, natural gas geotechnologies, geological sequestration of carbon dioxide and methane, methane hydrate technology, and any possible new energy technologies involving geomaterials.

More information is available of the following link:

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/geomechanics-for-energy-and-the-environment/