A position for a post-doctoral researcher is available at the GeM laboratory (University of Nantes). The project is designed to start a new numerical FEM approach to model internal erosion, complementary to the experimental approach developed by the team. The project requires good modelling skills (FEM) and if possible knowledge of the mixture theory. You can find attached a one-page description of the postdoctoral position.
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.
2016 Gordon Research Conference on Granular Matter – Particulate Systems in Science and Technology will take place on July 24-29, 2016 at Stonehill College, Easton, MA, United States, see http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=13053.
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.
The deadline for the abstract submission has been officially extended to May 1, 2016; you can find here a link to the symposium: http://www.lem3.fr/2016EMI-IC/ and here a link for the abstract submission: http://www.lem3.fr/2016EMI-IC/index.php?page=abstract. The list of the minisymposia can be found at http://www.lem3.fr/2016EMI-IC/index.php?page=sessions.
The video of Prof. Hans Mühlhaus giving the Special lecture at the annual meeting in Aussois 2015 is now available online. The lecture was entitled Mechanical and hydraulic instabilities in Geomechanics.
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/
The ALERT Newsletter 2016 summing up the events and highlights within the framework of ALERT activities is available online now. The newsletters of recent years can be found in the archive.
The State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection (SKLGP), Chengdu University of Technology, located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Southwest China, invites applicants for postdoctoral positions (1-3 years) in the field of Geohazards, Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering. More details in the pdf file.
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.