ALERT Workshop 2012 – Call for abstracts

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As announced in December 2011, ALERT Workshop 2012 (23 rdEdition) will be held in Aussois on October 1 to 3, 2012. Please don’t forget to submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form.

Since time for the presentations is limited, only part of the abstracts submitted will be chosen for oral presentations. Therefore, we invite you to submit your abstract as soon as possible. The deadline for the abstract submission is April 30, 2012 . For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact directly the organizers of the sessions.

Professor in Uncertainty, Reliability and Risk

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Chair (Prof.) in Uncertainty, Reliability and Risk in the School of Engineering
University of Liverpool
http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/professorial/A-577003.htm

Closing date is Feb 17.

These positions are part of the new Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, which is just being established in the intersection of Engineering, Architecture, Environmental Sciences, Economy/Management, Financial Mathematics and Psychology.

Rock Physics and Natural Hazards

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A session on “Rock Physics and Natural Hazards” at the EGU Meeting will be held in Vienna, Austria from 22 to 27 April 2012 (for details see http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9082).

Invited speakers
Prof. C. Scholz, Columbia University, USA
Dr. N. De Paola, University of Durham, England
Prof. K. Russell, University of Vancouver, Canada

Deadline for receiving abstracts is 17th January 2012

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at UCL

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The Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) at UCL is renowned for its radical and innovative approach to teaching and for the breadth and variety of its research. We are seeking applications for a Professorship in the field of Geotechnics. Successful applicants will be expected to develop and manage a substantial research group and make an appropriate contribution to the department’s portfolio of teaching.

New ALERT Bureau

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The ALERT Geomaterials network is managed by the ALERT Bureau. During the ALERT meeting in Aussois 2011, Manolo Pastor (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) was elected as a new President of the ALERT Geomaterials. He will be supported by the Bureau composed of:

  • Ivo Herle, Director (Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Germany)
  • Andrea Galli, Vice-Director for Administration (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Structural Engineering, Italy)
  • Bruno Chareyre, Vice-Director for Economy (ENSHMG, Laboratoire 3S, France)

ALERT 2012 Workshop & School

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ALERT Workshop 2012 will be organized from Monday October 1st till Wednesday October 3rd and Doctoral School from Thursday October 4th till Saturday 6th in Aussois.

Workshop sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, October 1st)
Micromechanics and critical steady states in geomaterials
Coordinators: Yannis Dafalias and Bruno Chareyre

Session 2 (Tuesday, October 2nd)
Geomechanics of underground structures
Coordinators: Claudio Tamagnini and David Mašín

Session 3 (Wednesday, October 3rd)
Geomechanics for energy production
Coordinators: Lyesse Laloui and Helen Lewis

The title of the Doctoral School is Advanced experimental techniques in geomechanics and the coordinators are Cino Viggiani, Steve Hall and Enrique Romero.