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CISM-EUROMECH Advanced Course on “Damage and Fracture Mechanics of Fluid-Infiltrated Geomaterials” September 7-11, 2026 – Udine (Italy)
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the CISM-EUROMECH Advanced Course on “Damage and Fracture Mechanics of Fluid-Infiltrated Geomaterials”, which will take place from 7 to 11 Sptember 2026 at Palazzo del Torso, Piazza Garibaldi 18, Udine (Italy).
The course is offered in a hybrid format, allowing participants the flexibility to attend either in person or remotely via the Microsoft Teams platform. Admission to on-site attendance is granted on a first-come, first-served basis to comply with the capacity of the lecture room.
Application forms should be submitted online through the website: http://www.cism.it.
Registration fees:
– Early Bird On-Site Participation: € 650.00 + VAT* – Deadline: July 7, 2026
– Late On-Site Participation: € 800.00 + VAT* – Deadline: August 26, 2026
– Live Streaming Online Participation: € 250.00 + VAT* – Deadline: August 26, 2026
A limited number of participants from universities and research centers who do not receive support from their institutions can request a waiver of the registration fee and/or free lodging. Requests should be submitted by email to the CISM Secretariat at info@cism.it by July 7, 2026. Submissions must include the applicant’s curriculum vitae and a letter of recommendation from the head of the department or a supervisor, confirming that the institute is unable to provide funding. Preference will be given to applicants from countries that sponsor CISM.
All relevant information is provided in the flyer and on the website https://cism.it/en/activities/courses/C2612/.
For further information please contact: info@cism.it
Two doctoral students (soil mechanics / geotechnics) at Charles University in Prague, Czechia
We are looking for two highly motivated doctoral students for our 4-year doctoral programme at Charles University in Prague.
The successful candidates must hold a master’s degree in engineering geology, geotechnical engineering, or equivalent subjects.
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2025
Start date: 1 October 2025
Send your resume & motivation letter to gianvito.scaringi@natur.cuni.cz
Position 1. Effect of temperature on the engineering behaviour of geomaterials
Supervisor: Dr. Gianvito Scaringi
Required experience/skills: coding of constitutive models of geomaterials, and/or thermo-hydromechanical numerical modelling of geomaterials (e.g., Plaxis, Comsol, Geostudio), and/or experience in a soil mechanics laboratory conducting advanced experiments (e.g., unsaturated and/or cyclic/dynamic triaxial, thermal oedometer or triaxial, CRS oedometer, ring shear), and/or fieldwork experience with energy geostructures.
Position 2. Numerical modelling of soil cyclic behaviour
Supervisor: Prof. David Masin
Required experience/skills: deep understanding of advanced constitutive models of soils (ideally, knowledge of hypoplasticity) as well as programming skills (mainly C++ and Fortran) and knowledge of ABAQUS, OpenGeoSys, and Plaxis.
Further details are provided in the flyer.
Failure and Instability in Geomaterials and Geosystems- G. Buscarnera ,10-12 giugno, Roma La Sapienza
Nell’ambito del Corso di Dottorato in Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica dell’Università di Roma La Sapienza, dal 10 al 12 giugno 2024, il prof. Giuseppe Buscarnera (Northwestern University- short-bio) terrà un corso sul tema Failure and Instability in Geomaterials and Geosystems. I dettagli del corso, tenuto in inglese e concepito per essere preferibilmente fruito in presenza (solo in subordine per via telematica) sono riportati in questo flyer e in questa pagina web dalla quale è possibile effettuare l’iscrizione, obbligatoria, al corso. Il programma dettagliato del corso è consultabile qui.
LIQUEFAZIONE DEI TERRENI INDOTTA DAI TERREMOTI – Napoli Federico II , 25-26 gennaio 2024
Giovedì 25 e venerdì 26 Gennaio 2024, presso l’Aula Magna dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (P.le Tecchio 80), si terrà un Workshop su LIQUEFAZIONE DEI TERRENI INDOTTA DAI TERREMOTI organizzato da Stefania Lirer, Alessandro Flora e Francesco Silvestri. La partecipazione è libera ed il programma dell’evento è contenuto in questo flyer. Per informazioni e comunicazioni scrivere a federico.valtucci@unina.it
Constitutive and numerical modeling of geomaterials- Napoli Federico II – 26-30 giugno 2023
Da lunedì 26 a a venerdì 30 giugno 2023 (ore 0:00-12:00 e 15:00-17:00), nell’ambito della Scuola di Dottorato attiva presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, in modalità mista, si svolgerà un corso dal titolo “Constitutive and numerical modeling of geomaterials“. Per maggiori informazioni e iscrizioni scrivere a ferdinando.marinelli@unina.it
ALERT Workshop (27-29 September 2021) and School (30 September – 2 October 2021)
ALERT Geomaterials Workshop 27th September to 29th September
ALERT Doctoral School 30th September to 2nd October
Aussois, France (or online)
The preliminary programme of the ALERT Doctoral School 2021 (link) in Aussois/online is now available. Be aware that changes can still occur. The programme of the Workshop (link) will follow soon.
Information and the link to the registration script can be found here.
As sanitary conditions are improving, it was decided to propose you two alternatives for your registration to the workshop and doctoral school: either you can come and participate in Aussois, or you can attend those remotely. Don’t worry, your choice can always be modified later on, as the sanitary conditions may change. As a reminder, the restrictions for entering France will depend on your country of departure and your vaccination status.
ALERT Geomaterials Workshop 2021 – Call for abstracts
Vi trasmettiamo la call for abstracts per la sessione “Bridging the gap between experiments and modelling: from laboratory testing to material models prediction” dell’Alert Geomaterials Workshop 2021. La sessione è coordinata da Béatrice Baudet, Federica Cotecchia e Cristina Jommi.
La scadenza per l’invio degli abstract (extended deadline) è il 20 giugno 2021.
Allegato: ALERT 2021 call_abstracts final
Pagina web del workshop: http://alertgeomaterials.eu/category/workshop/
PhD and Post-doc positions at EPFL, Switzerland
The Laboratory of Soil Mechanics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is looking for 3 PhD candidates and 2 Post-docs in Geomechanics and Energy Geotechnics.
The call is open until all the positions will be filled. Candidates are urged to apply as early as they can, contacting recruitment.lms@epfl.ch .
More information in the attachment: LMS-EPFL-openpositions
PhD and Postdoctoral research positions at EPFL, Switzerland
The Laboratory of Soil Mechanics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is currently looking for two PhD students and a Postdoctoral researcher to conduct research in THM testing and modelling of geomaterials as part of research activities on nuclear waste storage.
The positions are open as of January 1st 2019, or upon agreement. More information on these positions can be found in the attached document. Interested candidates should submit their application to recruitment.lms@epfl.ch.
ALERT Geomaterials – Newsletter
Segnaliamo la possibilità di iscriversi alla newsletter di ALERT (Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Education, Research and Technology) tramite l’apposito modulo del sito http://alertgeomaterials.eu/ .
The Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Education, Research and Technology (ALERT) “Geomaterials” has been created in 1989 by Roberto Nova, Manuel Pastor, Ian Smith, Peter Vermeer, Olek Zienkiewicz and Félix Darve as a pioneering (at that time!) effort to develop a European School of Thinking in the field of the Mechanics of Geomaterials. The generic name “Geomaterials” is viewed as gathering together materials, whose mechanical behaviour depends on the pressure level, which can be dilatant under shearing and which are multiphase because of their porous structure. So, the “geomaterials” label brings together mainly soils, rocks and concrete. It has been obvious from the very beginning that there is a crucial need for a joint Graduate School in order to build firmly this European scientific group in the Mechanics of Geomaterials, in close link with the doctoral students.
The main areas of interest are
– micromechanics and constitutive modelling for geomaterials
– engineering, failure, strain localisation and instabilities
– large scale computations for geomaterials and geostructures
– integrity of geostructures and inverse analysis in geomechanics
– environmental geomechanics and durability of geomaterials
The core activity represents the annual meeting with ALERT Workshop and ALERT Doctoral School.
Maggiori informazioni su: http://alertgeomaterials.eu/
