ISSMGE News & Information Circular - April 2016 -

Dear KGS collegues,

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.

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
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.

3. 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.

4. ISSMGE Webinars : For the previous webinars, please go to http://www.issmge.org/en/resources/recorded-webinars

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

6. 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/

- 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), 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)

7. 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