The Universite catholique de Louvain is looking for a full-time professor in Geotechnical Engineering, starting September 2013 towards a tenure-track position. The applications should reach UCL by midnight Monday 17th December 2012, at the latest. For details, see http://www.uclouvain.be/en-423063.html or pdf.
At its meeting in Aussois, October 2012, the ALERT Board of Directors approved three submitted applications for the ALERT membership:
With this decision, the number of the member institutions of ALERT Geomaterials increased to 30!
The invited Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2013 will be presented by Prof. Ronaldo Borja from Stanford University. The title of his talk is Triggering a shear band in heterogeneous porous media.
The book with lecture notes from the ALERT Doctoral School 2012 on Advanced experimental techniques in geomechanics, edited by G. Viggiani, S.A. Hall and E. Romero, is available for free download.
The pictures taken by the students for the photo competition during the ALERT Doctoral School 2012 are now available online. The competiton was initiated by Carlos Santamarina and its results were presented in a stimulating atmosphere by Eddy Ando. The subject of the competition was reserch motivation.
The ALERT PhD Prize 2012 was awarded to Thomas Blanc from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid for his PhD thesis entitled “The Runge-Kutta Taylor-SPH, A new improved model for soil dynamics problems” (abstract), and to Mohammad Monfared from École des Ponts – Paris Tech for his PhD thesis entitled “Temperature-damage-permeability coupling in clayey soils and rocks” (abstract). See more details and the winners from the previous years.
The annual meeting of ALERT Geomaterials in Aussois is over. A collection of impressions photographed by David Mašín can be found on his webpage. More news from the meeting will follow soon.
A session named Computational Models and Methods for Multiphysics Processes in Multiphase Porous Media (session code 103) will be organized by Lorenzo Sanavia and Claudio Tamagnini at the Vth International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering – COUPLED PROBLEMS 2013. This ECCOMAS thematic conference and IACM Special Interest Conference celebrating the 60th birthday of Professor Eugenio Oñate, will be held in Ibiza Island, Spain, June 17-19, 2013. Continue reading
A mini-symposium on Micro-scale and field-scale modeling of underground storage of wastes and hydrocarbons will be organized within the 5th Biot Conference on Poromechanics. For details, see http://biot2013.conf.tuwien.ac.at/programme/mini-symposia.html.
From the 17th to 21st September 2012 the Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Doctoral Summerschool) entitled Constitutive Modelling of Soils took place in Dresden. 42 participants from 15 countries were listening to the presentations of four lecturers – Professors David Muir Wood (Dundee), Claudio Tamagnini (Perugia), David Mašín (Prague), Ivo Herle (Dresden) – and working out computer exercises using the software Octave.
