The Universite catholique de Louvain is looking for a full-time Research and Teaching Assistant in Geotechnical Engineering, starting September/October 2015 towards a PhD. The applications should reach UCL by midnight friday 22nd May 2015, at the latest. For details, see the webpage or the pdf file.
This PhD thesis will study the impact of cementation type and degree on the micro-processes induced during deformation of artificially cemented granular materials.
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The Doctoral Course on “Granular Matter: from Packing to Flow” will be held at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy from the 8th to the 12th June 2015. More details in the attached pdf.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the ALERT Geomaterials Workshop 2015 (26th Edition) has been extended up to May 31, 2015!
Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, odt, pdf). 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).
A PhD project is available within the Geomechanics Group of the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University (Australia) in partnership with The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The project deals with landslide issues – SPH simulation and/or laboratory tests. Applications are invited for the next round of PhD scholarship at Monash University with deadline May 31st 2015. More details in the pdf file.
The webpage for the 7th ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Summerschool) on “Unsaturated Soil Mechanics: From Fundamentals to Applications” is online. The Course be held at the Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geosciences (Spain) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC) from the 25th to the 29th May 2015.
The video of Itai Einav giving the Special lecture at the annual meeting in Aussois 2014 is now available online. The lecture was entitled Geomaterials under extremes.
The 2nd German Soil Mechanics Conference (2. Deutsche Bodenmechanik Tagung) will take place 19 May 2015 at Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, Germany.
Established two years ago in 2013 the conference gives attention to recent topics and brings together young scientists with experienced researchers from the soil mechanics community. This year the one-day-conference is divided into three sessions, which are entitled „Material behaviour and constitutive modelling“, „Soil as a mulitphase system“ and „Soil Mechanics: Application and Challenges“. Although the general conference language is German, invited lectures will be given in English language. For more details please visit the conference webpage (http://www.gbf.rub.de/bodenmechaniktagung2015.html) or download the attached flyer.
1st International Conference on Energy Geotechnics – ICEG 2016 will be hosted at Kiel University (Germany) in August 29th -31 th, 2016. The details of the conference are provided in the conference webpage preview: www.ICEG-2016.de.
The 2nd International Workshop on Geomechanics and Energy will take place 13-15 October 2015 in Celle (Germany). The deadline for the submission of abstracts is June 10th.
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