Call for Submissions – Geo-Extreme 2021
We would like to draw your attention to the attached Call for Submissions for Geo-Extreme 2021, a specialty conference organize by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to be held at the Hyatt Regency Savannah, in Savannah, GA, USA, on August 15-18, 2021.
Geo-Extreme 2021 aims to create a multi-disciplinary forum to discuss how the geo-engineering community can work with other professionals, e.g., climate scientists, engineers, emergency managers, resilience and sustainability investigators, insurance experts, and policy makers, to cope with extreme events under a changing climate.
Proposals for technical sessions, panels, and short courses are due May 22 and may be only emailed to Jay McKelvey at: jaym@earthengineering.com.
Abstracts are due June 19 and may be only submitted via the online Submission System at: https://www.geoinstitute.org/index.php/news/geo-extreme-2021-call-abstracts
TUST Special Issue “Building and infrastructure response to ground movement: bridging the gap between geotechnical and structural modelling of SSI”
Carissimi colleghi,
vi segnaliamo che la rivista Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology ospiterà un numero speciale dal titolo “Building and infrastructure response to ground movement: bridging the gap between geotechnical and structural modelling of SSI“, a cui molti di voi potrebbero essere interessati.
Maggiori informazioni possono essere reperite al seguente indirizzo:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/tunnelling-and-underground-space-technology/call-for-papers/bridging-the-gap
Le date principali sono le seguenti:
· scadenza per l’invio dei sommari (massimo 400 parole) – 15 Settembre 2020
· scadenza per l’invio degli articoli – 15 Dicembre 2020
· comunicazione della decisione finale – 15 Maggio 2021
· data presunta di pubblicazione del numero speciale – 15 Agosto 2021
Sperando in una vostra numerosa partecipazione, vi salutiamo cordialmente
Daniela Boldini, Andrea Franza e Giulia Viggiani
Guest Editors of the TUST Special Issue
LARAM School 2020 on-line this time (deadline for application 29 June)
Dear All,
Covid19 outbreak is a global threat and, first of all, we hope that you and your families are fine. The LARAM team is fine and we hope to meet students and lecturers again in person as soon as possible.
Also this year the LARAM School (www.laram.unisa.it) will take the occasion to teach and be together with the students. We will simply do in a different way.
We reshaped the traditional schedule of the School, with the lectures and the other activities comprised in the time window from 13:00 to 19:30 in Italian Summer time (=UTC+2).
Dates: 7-18 September 2020
Compared to traditional LARAM School Editions, it will be unchanged:
· the international application call
· the selection among applicants
· final certificate of attendance to the students
· mandatory, interactive participation of the students (to receive the end of the School certificate)
Participants
· 40 selected PhD students
· 10 registered Young Doctors (PhD defended not before 2015)
Program
The programme of the School will consist of 5-hour daily lectures and end-of-day test. The programme is structured in the following sessions:
· S1, Introduction to landslides
· S2, Landslide risk theory
· S3, Landslide modelling
· S4, International experiences
· S5, Landslide risk analysis and zoning
· S6, Landslide monitoring and mitigation
· S7, Landslide risk management and risk governance
Deadline for application: Monday 29 June 2020
More information on the LARAM website: http://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2020online/2020online
Best regards,
LARAM Team
Decreto istituzione Commissione di esperti PNR 2021-2027
Ai fini della definizione della proposta di un Programma Nazionale per la Ricerca 2021-2027, da rendersi entro il 30 giugno 2020, il Ministro dell’Università e della Ricerca ha istituito una Commissione di esperti, la cui composizione per configurazioni tematiche è elencata nell’allegato.
Per la tematica Sicurezza per i Sistemi Sociali – Sicurezza sistemi naturali è componente della Commissione per il S.S.D. ICAR/07 Geotecnica il Prof. Francesco Castelli.
Documento allegato: decreto.0000544.24-04-2020
Borsa di dottorato presso Laboratorio 3SR, Université Grenoble Alpes (Francia)
Il Laboratorio 3DR dell’Université Grenoble Alpes (Francia) offre una posizione di dottorato sul tema “A micro-mechanical approach to cemented granular materials” – supervisori Alessandro Tengattini, Gioacchino (Cino) Viggiani, Pierre Bésuelle.
Scadenza per le candidature: 31 maggio 2020.
Maggiori informazioni nell’allegato:
Announcement_PhD_Tengattini_Viggiani_Besuelle
Bando assegno di ricerca presso la sezione INGV di Pisa
Vi segnaliamo un bando di assegno di ricerca professionalizzante presso la sezione INGV di Pisa, della durata di 12 mesi, con tema: “Installazione e gestione di un sistema di monitoraggio wireless su frane soggette a riattivazione sismica ed elaborazione, post-processing e interpretazione dei dati acquisiti nell’ambito del progetto FRASI”
Scadenza presentazione domanda: 15 maggio 2020
L’assegno prevede le seguenti attività:
– Installazione del sistema Wireless Sensor Network for Ground Instability Monitoring (Wi-GIM) su una frana in area sismica;
– Gestione del cluster Wi-GIM installato;
– Elaborazione e post-processing dei dati raccolti e loro interpretazione;
– Confronto con altre tecnologie volte a misurare spostamenti superficiali in frane soggette a riattivazione sismica;
– Raccolta dati sulla frana oggetto di studio.
PhD and Postdoc positions in Infrastructure Geotechnics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
The Geotechnics research group in Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, is looking for PhD students and Postdoctoral Researchers in Infrastructure Geotechnics (max. two positions each). The applicants are expected to be passionate about introducing/developing the state-of-the-art of modelling and testing of coupled processes (thermo-hydro-mechanical) into geotechnical engineering. The current research projects in infrastructure geotechnics include application of deep mixing under road and railway embankments and bottom support of excavations, as well as modelling natural and man-made slopes etc. These are problems where the coupling of mechanical, hydraulic and thermal response, as well as soil-structure interaction, is important. The applicants are expected to engage with industry, to create innovative solutions for major stakeholders. In parallel with research, the applicants are expected to contribute to teaching at undergraduate or Masters level (typically max. 10%-20% of their time), with focus on Geotechnical Engineering. The positions are temporary research positions (4-5 years for PhD, 2 years for Postdoc), fully funded by external research projects.
More information on the positions and how to apply:
PhD student positions in Infrastructure Geotechnics:
https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=8541
Postdoc positions in Infrastructure Geotechnics:
https://www.chalmers.se/sv/om-chalmers/Arbeta-pa-Chalmers/lediga-tjanster/Sidor/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=p8542
The First Mediterranean Symposium on Landslides – MSL 2021 – Naples, 7-9 June 2021
Il primo Mediterranean Symposium on Landslides, intitolato “Slope Stability Problems in Stiff Clays and Flysch Formations“, si terrà a Napoli dal 7 al 9 giugno 2021. La scadenza per l’invio dei sommari è fissata al primo giugno 2020. Gli atti del simposio saranno pubblicati sulla raccolta open access “Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering” di Springer Nature.
Landslides represent a relevant problem for most of the countries overlooking the Mediterranean. This trivial consideration should prompt researchers, professionals, and stakeholders in this region to form closer relationships and engage themselves in a continuous exchange of data and ideas to find common strategies of landslide risk mitigation.
A common problem concerns the stability of slopes in hard fissured soils, weak rocks and flysch deposits, which are widespread all over the region, posing major problems to the development of these areas.
It is evident that the behaviour of such a wide and complex class of materials, spreading across large areas in this corner of the world, cannot be interpreted simply through the basic laws of the Soil or Rock Mechanics. With the goal in mind of urging people living on the Mediterranean to join their efforts, we decided to organize a Mediterranean Symposium on Landslides (MSL) in Napoli in June, 2021 hoping that this initiative will be the first of a series of similar periodic events.
Symposium website: https://medsymplandslides.wixsite.com/msl2021
Candidature per il Bright Spark Award
La ISSMGE ha istituito il Bright Spark Award per giovani ingegneri geotecnici il cui vincitore sarà invitato a presentare una Special Lecture di 30 minuti durante la XX ICSMGE di Sydney.
A tale scopo l’AGI invita tutti i giovani soci ISSMGE che vogliono candidarsi, ad inviare per email (agi@associazionegeotecnica.it), entro il 30 aprile 2020, il sommario dell’attività di ricerca che intendono eventualmente presentare e il proprio CV.
Sono ammessi candidati fino a 36 anni di età (al 17 settembre 2021).
Maggiori informazioni nel sito AGI alla pagina
http://www.associazionegeotecnica.it/novita/candidature-il-bright-spark-award
e nel sito ISSMGE alla pagina
https://www.issmge.org/the-society/awards/bright-spark-lecture-award
XIII International Symposium on Landslides – Cartagena (Colombia) – postponed to 2021
Due to the drastic measures imposed at the local and international level to control the Coronavirus, the entry of foreigners to Colombia has been forbidden since the middle of March 2020 and most probably it will be very limited until the month of June 2020 and therefore we were forced to postpone the XIII International Symposium on Landslides to February 22-26, 2021.
More information at the conference website: http://www.scg.org.co/xiii-isl/index.html
