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ISSMGE News & Information Circular – April 2016

Posted on by Kristoffer Brathen

Please visit the ISSMGE website – http://www.issmge.org/ for full details of all ISSMGE activities.

  1. Message from Professor Roger Frank, President of ISSMGE.

Professor Frank’s recent message (15 March 2016) is available from the ISSMGE website – http://www.issmge.org/en/the-society/the-president/messages-from-the-president/793-message-from-the-president-march-2016.  It will also be included in the April 2016 issue of the Bulletin.

  1. 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul 2017

Please note that Member Societies should be collecting abstracts, ready to submit via  – http://www.icsmge2017.org/program/program_04.asp

Revised abstract submission deadline – Please refer to http://www.icsmge2017.org/newsletter/en_newsletter_3.html for full information on the revised abstract submission deadline, and guidelines for abstract submission.

  1. ISSMGE Awards to be presented at the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul 2017

Please note that the call for awards has now been published, and the deadline for nominations is 1st July 2016.  Information can be found on the website at http://www.issmge.org/en/awards.

 

  1. ISSMGE Webinars
Speaker Date Title
Gabriel Auvinet (Mexico) Monday, 18th April 2016

12:00 (noon) GMT

 Geotechnical Challenges in Mexico City Clay

Click here for a full list of previously recorded ISSMGE webinars

  1. ISSMGE Bulletins

To retrieve copies of the ISSMGE Bulletin, please go to http://www.issmge.org/en/resources/issmge-bulletin

Edition – latest Website
Volume 10, Issue 1

February 2016

 http://www.issmge.org/en/resources/issmge-bulletin/792-vol-10-issue-1-february-2016
  1. Conferences

For a listing of all ISSMGE and ISSMGE supported conferences – click here.  New conferences/changes since the last circular are listed below:

  • Third International Course on Geotechnical and Structural Monitoring, 07 -10 June 2016

The Castle of Counts Guidi, Poppi (Tuscany), Italy, E-mail: info@geotechnicalmonitoring.com, Website: http://www.geotechnicalmonitoring.com/en/

  • 8ème Journées Africaines de la Géotechnique, 20 – 24 June 2016

Hotel Sawa, Douala, Cameroon, E-mail: http://www.8jag-cngc.org/8jag/contact/; website: www.8jag-cngc.org 

  • SFGE 2016 – Shaping the Future of Geotechnical Education – International Conference on Geo-Engineering Education, 20-22 October 2016

Minascentro, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, E-mail: sfge2016@cobramseg2016.com.br, Website: http://cobramseg2016.com.br/index.php/sfge-sobre/?lang=en

  • Advances in Laboratory Testing and Modelling of Soils and Shales, 18 -20 January 2017 –

Swiss Alps, Switzerland.  E-mail: valentina.favero@epfl.ch, Website: http://atmss.epfl.ch

  • 4th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT’18), 21 – 22 June 2018

Delft University of Technology (TUD), Delft, The Netherlands, E-mail: info@cpt18.org; Website: http://www.cpt18.org

  • ISDCG 2019 – 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, 26 – 28 June 2019

Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom (contact details to be provided)

  1. ISSMGE Foundation

The next deadline for receipt of applications for awards from the ISSMGE Foundation is the 1st May 2016.  Click here for further information on the ISSMGE Foundation

Apologies to those of you getting multiple copies of this circular. 

Best wishes,

Paloma Peers

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Paloma Peers

Administrative Officer

ISSMGE
City University

Northampton Square

London EC1V 0HB

UK