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.
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.