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ISSMGE News & Information Circular - September 2021

ISSMGE News & Information Circular - September 2021

ISSMGE News & Information Circular - September 2021


ELECTION OF ISSMGE PRESIDENT 2022-2026


As a consequence of the 20ICSMGE being pushed back to May 2022, and in accordance with the Statutes and Bylaws, the deadline for receiving nominations for the next ISSMGE President has been extended to 30th January 2022.


20ICSMGE / 7iYGEC – NEW DATES – MAY 2022

New dates have been confirmed for the conferences in Sydney as follows;
7iYGEC - Friday 29 April - Sunday 1 May 2022
20ICSMGE – Sunday 1 May – Thursday 5 May 2022.
For more information, please visit the conference website (https://icsmge2021.org/) which is in the process of being updated.


SSMGE TC-302 Webinar on "Collapse of Fujinuma Dam by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and its reconstruction" by Prof. Tatsuoka on 18th September, 2021


TC-302 of ISSMGE is conducting a webinar on "Collapse of Fujinuma Dam by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and its reconstruction", by Prof. Fumio Tatsuoka, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo and Tokyo University of Science, Japan, on 18th September, 2021 (Saturday), starting at 17:00 hours (Tokyo time)/ 8:00 hours (GMT) https://statement.imgix.net/13.30?auto=compress%2Cformat&cs=strip&ixlib=php-1.1.0&s=56f6c964f777bcbbac86a54bfeaec7bc hours (Indian Standard Time).


Prof. Tatsuoka has pre-recorded his lecture, and requested the TC-302 to circulate the lecture video, along with a few published literature on the topic, to all the members of ISSMGE well in advance. Following is the link to the video file.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-GUbD6BrOb_RFo9V0...


Also please find below the link to the research papers published by Prof.Tatsuoka on the topic of webinar.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1emfrJ-LFN6...


The purpose of sharing the resources before the webinar is to encourage all the interested to send their queries/questions on the lecture, so that Prof.Tatsuoka can effectively respond to all the queries in the Q&A session following the webinar on 18th September, 2021.
Please fill the following registration form for attending the webinar, and you can also submit your questions/queries, if any, after viewing the above video, in the same form.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kTZplR3smGiwb84aq...

The meeting link will be shared with all the registered people in due course of time.


TIME CAPSULE PROJECT (TCP)


You may already know that an ISSMGE Blog section has been launched as part of the ISSMGE Time Capsule Project (https://www.issmge.org/the-society/time-capsule), the idea being to stimulate personal consideration on the practice of Geotechnical Engineering. Contributions of 200-400 words on any topic that will generate debate within the Geotechnical Engineering profession are encouraged, and may be submitted via the website. For further information, examples of current and upcoming articles, and instructions on submission, please go to the TCP pages on the ISSMGE site https://www.issmge.org/news/tcp-blog-posts


NEW WEBINAR


New TC103 Lecture "Numerical Simulations by Energy Piles" by Prof. McCartney, is a new webinar now available from the ISSMGE website.


3rd HUTCHINSON LECTURE - 3rd JTC WORKSHOP – NORWAY, 2022 – CALL FOR PROPOSALS


The Joint Technical Committee (JTC1) on Natural Slopes and Landslides of the Federation of the International Geo-engineering Societies (FedIGS) is organizing the 3rd JTC1 workshop, which will be held in Norway in Spring, 2022; the provisional title of the event is Landslide initiation, prediction and risk mitigation.


The workshop will host the 3rd Hutchinson Lecture, which has been established by the same JTC1 to award a scholar, aged 42 or less at the time of the event, who has significantly contributed to the development of knowledge in the field of slope stability and landslides. The Hutchinson Lecture should deal with a subject consistent with the workshop issues. The lecture will be published in an international journal.


The Hutchinson lecturer, who should have a disciplinary background from one or more of the domains of the geosciences, will be chosen - by vote of JTC1 Committee members - among candidates proposed by national societies. All countries are then asked to propose their own candidate. The proposals, accompanied by the candidate CV, should be submitted to the JTC1 chairman, Luciano Picarelli, by September 15th 2021 (luciano.picarelli@unicampania.it) .


BULLETIN

The latest edition of the ISSMGE Bulletin (Volume 15, Issue 3, August 2021) is available from the website https://www.issmge.org/publications/issmge-bulleti...


ISSMGE FOUNDATION


The next deadline for receipt of applications for awards from the ISSMGE Foundation is the 30th September 2021. 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


6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SITE CHARACTERIZATION - 26-09-2021 - 29-09-2021
Budapest Congress Center, Budapest, Hungary; Language: English; Organiser: Hungarian Geotechnical Society; Contact person: Tamás Huszák; Address: Muegyetem rkp. 3.; Email: info@isc6.org; Website: http://isc6.org


GEONIAGARA - CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY'S ANNUAL CONFERENCE - 26-09-2021 - 29-09-2021
ON Convention Centre, Niagara Falls, Canada; Organiser: Canadian Geotechnical Society; Contact person: Lisa Reny; Address: 2167 166 Street; Phone: 7788342010; Email: lisa@karma-link.ca; Website: https://www.geoniagara2021.ca/; Email: admin@geoniagara2021.ca


SECOND GENERATION OF EUROCODE 7 - IMPROVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES - 28-09-2021 - 29-09-2021
Online, Netherlands; Language: English; Organiser: ISSMGE ERTC10; Contact person: Georgios Katsigiannis (Chair of ISSMGE ERTC10); Email: georgios.katsigiannis@ekfb.com; Website: https://second-generation-of-eurocode7.nen-eveneme...


FUTURE OF GEOTECHNICS - 04-10-2021 - 05-10-2021
Online, United States; Language: English; Organiser: YMPG; Contact person: Lucy Wu; Email: info@futuregeo.org; Website: https://www.futureofgeo.org/


INTERNATIONAL YOUNG PROFESSIONALS WORKSHOP ON RAIL-ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE - 26-11-2021 - 27-11-2021
Hybrid, Sydney, Australia; Language: English; Organiser: Transport Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney; Contact person: Christine Smith; Email: christine.smith-1@uts.edu.au; Website: https://www.uts.edu.au/research/transport-research...


17TH DANUBE - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING - DATES TO BE CONFIRMED
Ramada Parc, Bucharest, Romania- September 2023); Language: English; Organiser: Romanian Society for Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering; Contact person: Ernest Olinic; Address: Bvd. Lacul Tei 124; Email: srgf@utcb.ro; Website: http://www.17decge.ro


NON-ISSMGE EVENTS


BUCHANAN LECTURE - 12-11-2021
Online, United States, College Station; Language: English; Organiser: Jean-Louis Briaud; Contact person: Blake Thurman; Address: 3135 TAMU; Phone: 9794581024; Email: blake960@tamu.edu; Website: https://briaud.engr.tamu.edu/buchananlecture/

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