Jean-Michel Pereira's blog

Enrique Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Spain) and Jean-Michel Pereira (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France) are organizing a mini-symposium on "Coupled
processes in geomechanics. Bridging theory and experiments"
(MS16) at the 5th Biot Conference on Poromechanics to be held in
Vienna, Austria, July 10-12, 2013.

Read the new themed issue for Géotechnique Letters: "Geomechanics across the scales"

 http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/info/Geolthemedissue

A joint workshop of the ISSMGE TC101-TC105: Experimental
Micromechanics for Geomaterials will be held on 23rd-24th May
2013 at The University of Hong Kong.

Abstracts are now invited, until the 1st October 2012. They should
be 200-300 words in length, written in English, and show relevance
to the theme of the workshop. Abstracts should be sent to Ms Bridget
Lam. Email: owlam@hku.hk (subject: EXP MICRO 2013)

See also attached flyer.

 Call for Papers: Geomechanics across the scales

More details available here:

 http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Rapid-publication-themed-issue-abstract-4138910.S.98035918?view=&gid=4138910&type=member&item=98035918

New journal Géotechnique Letters now gives access to 10 papers for free. Please have a look at the following announcement from ICE Publishing:

A new journal published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) is available: Géotechnique Letters.

Average time to first peer review decision: 32.5 consecutive days.

First papers are available for free at the ICE Virtual Library: http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/serial/geolett/fasttrack

Have a look!

Dear All,
I would like to announce a symposium in memory of Pr. Olivier Coussy

Mechanics and Physics of Porous Solids : a tribute to Pr. Olivier Coussy

It will be held at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France from 18 to 20 April 2011.

All informations can be found in the ongoing website http://navier.enpc.fr/events/mpps2011

Jean-Michel Pereira
on behalf of the organizing committee

A post-doctoral position is available at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (Paris, France) in Offshore Geomechanics. The theme of this 1 year research fellow position is:

Mechanical behaviour of ocean sediments and offshore geohazards

More information is available at the web page of Navier research department of Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

Two PhD scholarships, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, are currently available in the Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geosciences at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) (Barcelona, Spain). The PhD positions are associated to the Project “Progressive failure and the reactivation of big landslides: Analysis, prediction and risks (BIG RISK)” with Professor Eduardo Alonso and Professor Jordi Corominas as principal researchers.