The XVI French-Polish Colloquium of Soil and Rock Mechanics “Multiscale Modelling in Soil and Rock Mechanics” will be held from 8th to 10th of July 2013 in Montpellier, France. The deadline for abstract submission is the 16th of November 2012. More information is provided at the web site: http://cfp2013.lmgc.univ-montp2.fr/ and in pdf.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology is looking for Associate Professor/ Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, with a focus on experimental geotechnics. The position is a full time tenure appointment. The deadline for applications is December 1, 2012. For details, see http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/Pages/default.aspx or pdf.
Francesco Pesavento, Lorenzo Sanavia and Bernhard Schrefler are organizing the Minisymposium MS22 on “Multiphysics numerical modelling of geomaterials and computational strategies” at the 5th Biot conference on Poromechanics, http://biot2013.conf.tuwien.ac.at/, July 10-12, 2013, Vienna, Austria
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Enrique Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech, Spain) and Jean-Michel Pereira (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France) are organizing a mini-symposium on “Coupled processes in geomechanics. Bridging theory and experiments” (MS16) at the 5th Biot Conference on Poromechanics to be held in Vienna, Austria, July 10-12, 2013.
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The deadline for the registration of presentations for the Workshop on hypoplasticity in Dresden, 7-8 March 2013, has been extended until the end of November 2012. The titles of the presentations can be announced via the registration webpage. Only oral presentations as discussion topics are planed, without any printed proceedings.
ALERT Workshop 2013 will be organized from Monday September 30th till Wednesday October 2nd in Aussois.
Workshop sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, September 30)
Geomechanics of slopes
Coordinators: Claudio di Prisco and Leonardo Cascini
Session 2 (Tuesday, October 1)
Contact problems in geomechanics
Coordinators: Euripides Papamichos and Jean Sulem
(this will be only a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 2)
Degradation in geomaterials
Coordinators: Ali Daouadji, Christophe Dano and Erich Bauer
ALERT Doctoral School on Soil-structure interaction will follow the workshop.
The Laboratory of Civil Engineering of the National School of Engineering of Tunis – University Tunis El Manar organises the International Conference on Landslide Risk (ICLR13) to be held at Tabarka-Ain Drahem on March 14-16, 2013.
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During the ALERT Workshop a poster session always takes place. The posters presented this year as well as a booklet containing their short abstracts are now available online and can be downloaded here.
The title of the ALERT Doctoral School 2013 is Soil-structure interaction. It will take place in Aussois, October 3-5, 2013. The school organisers are Panagiotis Kotronis (EC Nantes), Claudio Tamagnini (University of Perugia) and Stephane Grange (UJF Grenoble).
A winter school on Numerical and Experimental Assessment of Landslides and Debris Flow organized and funded by the MUMOLADE network will be hosted by the COMPHYS group at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. More information on programme and full grants can be found on the winter school’s website and in the pdf file.