International Conference in Geotechnical Engineering will be organised by the Sri Lankan Geotechnical Society in August 2015. The second bulletin of the conference is attached. The closing date for the submission of abstracts is 29th June.
The registration for the ALERT Workshop and School 2014 is open now! You can register using the form at https://alertgeomaterials.eu/forms/registration.html . After filling the form and pressing the button “Register”, a window will open with your invoice. Please print the window with the invoice for your records! You will also get an email with the registration data afterwards. In case of the registration of ALERT members, the corresponding representative of the ALERT institution will receive the registration data too.
The deadline for the registration is September 15th! The accomodation in Aussois will be processed in the order of the registrations (see the hints in the registration form).
Hints on how to get to Aussois!
The preliminary programme for the ALERT workshop and school 2014 is avalable now!
The invited Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2014 will be presented by Prof. Itai Einav from University of Sydney. The envisaged title of his talk is Geomaterials under extremes.
The ALERT Poster session will be held during the ALERT Workshop from September 29 to October 1, 2014 in Aussois. Those who are interested are asked to submit their abstracts (both word/openoffice and pdf files are required) by email to the coordinator Donia Marzougui using the attached abstract form (files as odt and pdf). The deadline for the abstracts submission is September 10, 2014.
The election of the new ALERT Board of Directors (BoD) will take place in Aussois 29-30 September 2014, during the ALERT workshop. The BoD is composed of 15 members elected by the General Assembly. Each Institution has one vote. The vote is cast by the ALERT named representative of the Institution (whose name is specified on the ALERT website), or by another person belonging to the same Institution, delegated by written mandate by the named representative.
As foreseen by the ALERT Internal Regulations, candidatures must be submitted by a simple e-mail to the address of the ALERT Director. All permanent teachers, researchers and technicians belonging to an ALERT member Institution are eligible candidates for the BoD. The deadline for the candidatures is 15 September 2014.
A PhD position on “Filter criteria for granular soils based on the Constriction Size Distribution” is proposed at Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France). All the details can be found in the attached pdf file.
The Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) invites applications for a Research Associate position in the area of Geomechanics. We look for expertise in geomechanical numerical modeling and soil/rock mechanics, and experience modeling fluid flow in conjunction with large deformations. Qualifying applicants should have up to 10 years of research experience. For more details, please see attached pdf.
The call for the ALERT PhD Prize is still open (until 31 May)! Please note that applications should be submitted by the former PhD students (applicants). The applications should be sent by post to the Vice-Director of ALERT Geomaterials, Dr. Andrea Galli. The rules are summarized at https://alertgeomaterials.eu/alert-phd-prize/.
A position of Asst./Assoc. Professor of Offshore Soil Mechanics is open at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of the TU Delft. More details in the pdf file.
The biannual course in Soil Modelling at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway) will take place in the period September 8th to 12th 2014. Link to bulletin: http://www.ntnu.no/documents/10380/0/Course+in+soil+modelling/3a1a221d-ddbe-4fbd-acbf-cdc2f93ec2e2
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