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ISSMGE News Digest march 2016

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

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.

 2.    19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul 2017

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

 

 

 3.    ISSMGE Webinars

The Q&A session for the most recently launched webinar as detailed below is still open, and is available only for 48 hours after its release.

Speaker

Date

Title

Lyesse Laloui (Switzerland)

Monday, 29th February 2016

12:00 (noon) GMT

Multiphysical processes and design of thermo-active foundations

 

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

Edition - latest

Website

Volume 10, Issue 1

February 2016

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

 5.    Conferences

 

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

·       3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils - Paris 2016 , 12 - 14 September 2016

Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Marne la Vallée, France http://eunsat2016.sciencesconf.org/

 

·       International Geotechnical Engineering Conference on Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering Practices and Related Urban Issues, 23-24 Sept 2016

Ramada Powai Hotel and Convention Centre, Saki Vihar Road, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; e-mail: igsmumbai@gmail.com

http://www.igs.org.in/mix_files/ISSMGE-IGS-Mumbai-Conference-1st-Bulletin-2016.pdf

·       11th ANZ Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference (11YGPC), 25 – 28 October 2016

Queenstown, New Zealand, e-mail: 11ygpc@gmail.com, http://www.nzgs.org/resources/pdfs/YGP_11Queens2016formsv1.pdf

 

·       Geotec Hanoi 2016, 24 – 25 November 2016

JW Marriott Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam, e-mail: secretariat@geotechn.vn, Website: www.geotechn.vn

 

·       International Conference on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering, 8 - 10 December 2016

Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, e-mail:  anbu@civil.iisc.ernet.in

·       PBD-III Vancouver 2017 - The 3rd International Conference on Performance Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, 16-19 July 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, http://pbdiiivancouver.com/

6.     ISSMGE Foundation

Please note that 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

 

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