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.
ALERT Special Lecture 2014
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ALERT Workshop 2014
The ALERT Workshop 2014 will be organized from Monday, 29 September till Wednesday, 1 October in Aussois, France. It will include the following sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, September 29)
Constitutive modelling – what’s new?
Coordinators: Roberto Nova and Claudio di Prisco
Session 2 (Tuesday, September 30)
Railway geomechanics
Coordinators: Antonis Zervos and Farhang Radjai
(a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 1)
Multiphysics coupling
Coordinators: Robert Charlier, Lorenzo Sanavia and Jean Vaunat
ALERT Doctoral School on Stochastic analysis and inverse modelling will follow the workshop.
ALERT Doctoral School 2014
The title of the ALERT Doctoral School 2014 is Stochastic analysis and inverse modelling. It will take place in Aussois, October 2-4, 2014. The school organisers are Cristina Jommi and Michael Hicks (both TU Delft).
Minisymposium on Multiphysics Modelling of Porous Media
Minisymposium Multiphysics Modelling of Porous Media: Geomaterials, Biomaterials and Others will take place at the Conference: WCCM XI – ECCM V
11th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI)
5th. European Conference on Computational Methods (ECCM V)
6th. European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI)
in Barcelona, July 20-25, 2014.
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10th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics
10th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics will be held in Aussois, France, May 12-15 2014. Please find attached the flyer with more details and note that the deadline for submission of abstracts is November 15. The website of the conference is: http://euroconf2014.sciencesconf.org/ . The organizers: Pierre Bésuelle, François Renard and Cino Viggiani
Research Position in Numerical Modelling of Landslides in Southampton
A position for a Senior Research Assistant/Research Fellow in Numerical Modelling of Landslides is open at Southampton. Details are given in the attached pdf and the following link:
https://www.jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=299913AT
Impressions from the ALERT meeting 2013
The Workshop and Doctoral School of ALERT Geomaterials in Aussois 2013 is over. Like in the previous year, a collection of photographs by David Mašín can be found on his webpage. More news from the meeting will follow soon.
Associate Research Fellow in Geotechnical Engineering in Wollongong
A position of an Associate Research Fellow in Geotechnical Engineering is open at the Centre for Geomechanics & Railway Engineering of the University of Wollongong, Australia. More details in the attached pdf file.
Marie Curie Fellowship (Experienced Researcher) at Chalmers University of Technology
The Division of GeoEngineering at Chalmers is looking for a dynamic and talented individual for the position of Marie Curie Fellow (Experienced Researcher) to work on constitutive model development, verification and validation, with focus on modelling rate-dependent behaviour of soft natural soils. The holder of the post is supposed to play an active role in the EC/FP7 funded IAPP (Industry Academia Pathways and Partnerships) project CREEP (Creep of Geomaterials), focussing on research and knowledge exchange activities. The position is a 12 month fixed term appointment (1 fte).
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PhD positions at Northwestern University
The geotechnical engineering group of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Northwestern University is seeking for PhD candidates. Three positions will be available in the Fall 2014. Successful candidates should have a master degree in civil engineering, geomechanics, applied mechanics or related disciplines and a strong background in continuum mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Continue reading