ISSMGE News & Information Circular – May 2022

ISSMGE News & Information Circular – May 2022

ISSMGE COUNCIL MEETING – SUNDAY 1ST MAY 2022

At the Council Meeting in Sydney, Dr Marc Ballouz was elected as the next President of ISSMGE for the period 2022 – 2026. The Vice-Presidents will be:

Africa – Professor Marawan Shahien

Asia – Professor Keh-Jian Shou

Australasia- Mr Graham Scholey

Europe – Professor Lyesse Laloui

North America – Professor Walter Paniagua

South America – Professor André Assis

Other key points from the Council Meeting are:

The next quadrennial international conference (21 ICMSGE) will be held in Vienna, Austria 28 June 3 July 2026.

The next Council Meeting will be in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, 14-18 August 2023, on occasion of the XVII Asian Regional Conference.

ISSMGE TIME CAPSULE 2022 – LAUNCHED IN SYDNEY

Watch the 60 minute video of the plenary session at the 20th ICSMGE conference (1-5 May 2022).

https://www.issmge.org/the-society/time-capsule/pa….

NEWS FROM TC209 OFFSHORE GEOTECHNICS

ISSMGE Offshore Geotechnics is delighted to announce that Professor Richard Jardine of Imperial College has been invited to deliver the 6th McClelland Lecture. Scheduled for September 2023 at the SUT – Society for Underwater Technology’s Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics (OSIG) 9th International Conference – Innovative Geotechnologies for Energy Transition. For more information, please see https://www.issmge.org/article/announcing-the-6th-mcclelland-lecturer-professor-richard-jardine.

ISSMGE BULLETIN

The latest edition of the ISSMGE Bulletin (Volume 16, Issue 1, February 2022) is available from the website https://www.issmge.org/publications/issmge-bulletin/vol16-issue-1-february-2022

ISSMGE FOUNDATION

The next deadline for receipt of applications for awards from the ISSMGE Foundation is the 31st May 2022. Click here for further information on the ISSMGE Foundation.

CONFERENCES

For a listing of all ISSMGE and ISSMGE supported conferences, and full information on all events, including deadlines, please go to the Events page at https://www.issmge.org/events. However, for updated information concerning possible changes due to the coronavirus outbreak (ie. postponements, cancellations, change of deadlines, etc), please refer to that specific event’s website.

As might be expected, many events have been rescheduled and we update the Events page whenever we are advised of changes.

The following are events that have been added since the previous Circular:

ISSMGE Events

ONLINE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSPORTATION GEOTECHNICS – 01-06-2022 – 03-06-2022

Online, Thiruvananthapuram, India; Language: English; Organiser: LBS Institute of Technology for Women, Thiruvananthapuram, India; Contact person: Dr. Jayamohan J (Member TC 107, ISSMGE); Address: Professor, LBS Institute of Technology for Women; Phone: +919447017088 Fax: +914712343395 ; Email: jayamohanj@lbsitw.ac.in; Website : http://lbt.ac.in/

Fifth Symposium of MAG / Second Conference of Regional Geotechnical Societies / ISRM Specialised Conference – 23-06-2022 – 25-06-2022

Ohrid Lake Riviera, Hotel Metropol, Macedonia; Languages: English, South-slavic; Organiser: Macedonian Association for Geotechnics; Contact person: Assoc. Prof. Igor Peshevski; Address: blvd. Partizanski odredi No.24; Phone: +389 72 307 567; Fax: +389 2 311 88 34; Email: pesevski@gf.ukim.edu.mk; Website: https://mag.net.mk/v-mag-symposium-28-30-5-2020/; Email: mag@gf.ukim.edu.mk

4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN GEO-ENGINEERING (04 – 05 AUG 2022) – 04-08-2022

Virtual Online Conference, Singapore; Language: English; Organiser: Geotechnical Society of Singapore; Website: https://www.4iticg.org/; Email: sc.chian@nus.edu.sg

5TH CENTRAL ASIAN CONFERENCE ON SOIL MECHANICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 05-10-2022 – 07-10-2022

Samarkand, Uzbekistan; Language: English; Organiser: Uzbekistan Geotechnical Society; Contact person: Yodgor Obidov; Address: Lolazor street, 73; Phone: +998904526035; Email: conference.uzgs2022@gmail.com; Website: http://geotechnics.uz/

GEO-EXPO 2022 Scientific and Expert Conference – 21-10-2022 – 22-10-2022

Hotel Prijedor, Prijedor; Bosnia & Herzegovina; Languages: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, English; Organiser: Geotechnical Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Contact person: Sabrina Salković; Address: Urfeta Vejzagića 2; Phone: +38761451701; Email: eotehnika@geotehnika.ba; Website: https://www.geotehnika.ba;

UNDERGROUND CONTRUCTION PRAGUE 2023 – 29-05-2023 – 31-05-2023

Clarion Congress Hotel Prague, Language: English; Organiser: The Czech Tunnelling Association ITA-AITES; Contact person: Czech Tunnelling Association ITA-AITES; Address: Koželužská 2450/4; Phone: +420 702 062 610; Email: pruskova@ita-aites.cz; Website: https://www.ucprague.com/;

Email: masin@natur.cuni.cz

NUMERICAL METHODS IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 2023 – 26-06-2023 – 28-06-2023

Imperial College London; Language: English; Organiser: Imperial College London; Contact person: Email: numge2023@imperial.ac.uk;m Website : http://imperial.ac.uk.

28TH EUROPEAN YOUNG GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERS CONFERENCE AND GEOGAMES 04-10-2023 – 07-10-2023

National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Russia; Language: English; Organiser: Russian Society for Soil Mechanics, Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering; Contact person: PhD Ivan Luzin ; Address: NR MSUCE, 26 Yaroslavskoye shosse; Phone: +7-495-287-4914 (2384); Email: youngburo@gmail.com; Website : https://www.eygec28.com/

2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONSTRUCTION RESOURCES FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES – 20-11-2023 – 22-11-2023

Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka, Japan; Language: English; Organiser: Kyushu University; Contact Information: Secretariat of CREST 2023; Address: Room No. 1124, West Building 2, Kyushu University 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan; Phone: +81 092-802-3369 ; Email: info@ic-crest.com; Website: https://www.ic-crest.com/