ISSMGE News Digest February 2016

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

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 1^st July 2016.  Information can be found on the website at http://www.issmge.org/en/awards.

2.     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

3.     ISSMGE Webinars

Click here for a full list of previously recorded ISSMGE webinars

4. ISSMGE Bulletins

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

5. Conferences

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

·       8th Asian Young Geotechnical Engineering Conference (8 AYGEC), 5 – 7 August 2016, Astana, Kazakhstan

e-mail: astana-geostroi@mail.ru, Website: http://kgs-astana.wix.com/8aygec

·       5th African Young Geotechnical Engineering Conference, 10 – 12 August 2016, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

e-mail: 5aygec16@gmail.com

·       69th Annual Canadian Geotechnical Conference – GeoVancouver2016, 2 – 5 October 2016, Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada;

e-mail: mzergoun@thurber.ca ; website: http://www.geovancouver2016.com

·       9th All-Ukrainian Scientific-Technical Conference “Soil mechanics, geotechnics and foundation engineering”: “Geotechnical innovations and implementation of Eurocodes in Ukraine”, 11 – 13 October 201, Dnieper state academy of construction and architecture, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine,

e-mail: iepi@pgasa.dp.ua

6.     ISSMGE Foundation

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