ISSMGE News & Information Circular - JUNE 2016

Dear KGS colleagues,

Please visit the ISSMGE website. http://www.issmge.org/ for full details of all ISSMGE activities.

1. Upcoming International Young Geotechnical Engineers’Conferences. ATTENTION ALL MEMBER SOCIETIES: These conferences are fast approaching and you action may be required.
·25th European Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 21- 24 June 2016, Sibiu, Romania. Information: http://25eygec.srgf.ro
·8th Asian Young Geotechnical Engineering Conference, 5-7 August 2016 - Astana, Kazakhstan. Information: http://kgs-astana.wix.com/8aygec
·5th African Young Geotechnical Engineering Conference, 10-12 August 2016, Kumasi, Ghana. Information: 5aygec16@gmail.com

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

3. ISSMGE Webinars
Speaker : Yoshi Iwasaki (Japan)
Date : Monday, 27th June 2016
Title : 12:00 (noon) GMT , Geotechnical Engineering for Conservation of Heritage.

4.ISSMGE Bulletins

5.Conferences
For a listing of all ISSMGE and ISSMGE supported conferences - click here. New conferences/changes since the last circular are listed below:
·GEO-EXPO 2016 Scientific and Expert Conference, 7-8 October 2016
Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
E-mail: geotehnika@geotehnika.ba , info@geotehnika.ba,
website: http://www.geotehnika.ba
·IX Chilean Congress of Geotechnics, 5-7 December 2016,
Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, XIV Región de Los Ríos, Chile, E-mail: directorio@sochige.cl;
Website: www.congresosochige.cl
·9th International Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground, 6 April 2017

6. ISSMGE Foundation
The next deadline for receipt of applications for awards from the ISSMGE Foundation is the 1st August 2016. Click here for further information on the ISSMGE Foundation.