About ALERT - Geomaterials
The Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology (ALERT) "Geomaterials" has been created in 1989 as a pioneering (at that time!) effort to develop a European School of Thinking in the field of the Mechanics of Geomaterials.
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Cooptation of New Members
ALERT is proud to announce the cooptation of three new members to the Alliance. We welcome CEMAGREF, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis.

ALERT OLEK ZIENKIEWICZ COURSE 2010
The second Alert Geomaterials Local Doctoral Course will be held from Monday July 5th to Friday July 9th 2009 at EPFL, Lausanne, on the topic of: "Mechanics of Unsaturated Geomaterials".

Please see below the announcement of the course, including the program and other main information.

For further details please visit the website: http://lmswww.epfl.ch/ALERT/index.html

alert 2010 MEETING
ALERT Workshop and Doctoral School 2010 will be organized from Monday October 4th to Saturday October 9th 2010 in Aussois.

The ALERT Invited Lecture 2010 will be given by Prof. A.P.S. Selvadurai, professor at McGill University.

alert 2009 MEETING
ALERT Workshop and Doctoral School 2009 was organized from Monday October 12th to Saturday October 17th 2009 in Aussois. The final program is available.

The ALERT Invited Lecture 2009 was given by Dr. Suzanne Lacasse, managing director of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institue NGI.

The ALERT PhD Prize 2009 was granted to Dr. Bertrand François from EPFL in Lausanne for his PhD thesis entitled Thermo-plasticity of fine-grained soils at various saturation states: application to nuclear waste disposal.

The annual Poster Session was held during the Workshop.