News from the Groupement Belge de la SIMSG
Jan Maertens receives the De Beer Award for the period 2004-2008.
For a full report, please click on the link below
Attachment: De Beer Award_09.pdf
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Dr. Victor Milligan (November 11, 1929 – March 4, 2009)
Victor Milligan was born in Northern Ireland and graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast, in 1951 with a BSc in civil engineering. He followed this up with a M.Sc. in soil mechanics at Queen’s and then worked as a research fellow at Purdue ...
Prof. Victor F.B. de Mello - Website
Luiz Guilherme de Mello would like to advise all ISSMGE members that Prof. Victor de Mello''s unfinished book on Embankment Dams and Fills is available for downloading from his website [www.victorfbdemello.com.br;victorfbdemello.com.br]. In addition to the material that is alrea ...
Report of IS-Kyoto 2009: International Symposium on Prediction and Simulation Methods for Geohazard Mitigation -Kyoto - May 2009
Please click on the following link to read a report on the symposium.
Attachment: IS-Kyoto 2009 report.pdf
3rd International Geotechnical Symposium 2009 - Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Prevention and Reduction (Harbin, China, July 2009)
Please click on the following link to read a report on the symposium
Attachment: 3 rd IGSH 2009 Harbin China.pdf
International Korean-Japanese-Russian-Kazakhstan Geotechnical Seminar / Meeting between the Korean and Kazakhstan Geotechnical Societies
An International Korean-Japanese-Russian-Kazakhstan Geotechnical Seminar on geodisaster problems was held on the 20th of August 2009, at Incheon Research Disaster Prevention Center under the auspices of the Korean Geotechnical Society and the University of Incheon. There were ...
Presidential Report
Pedro Sêco e Pinto delivers his report on the ISSMGE presidential period 2005-2009
Attachment: ISSMGE President Report September 2009.pdf
IOANNIS VARDOULAKIS (22.03.1949 – 19.09.2009)
It is with our deepest regret to announce that Ioannis (John) Vardoulakis, Professor of Mechanics at the National Technical University of Athens has passed away. He died in the morning hours of 19th September, aged 60, after suffering serious brain damage caused by an accidental ...
ISSMGE Council elects Jean-Louis Briaud as President and chooses venue for 18ICSMGE.
At the Council Meeting in Alexandria on 4 October 2009, Professor Jean-Louis Briaud was elected as the next President of ISSMGE for the period 2009 - 2013. Other key points from the Council Meeting are:
The Vice-Presidents for the period 2009-2013 will be:
Africa - Dr Samuel E ...
Prof. Georg Stefanoff - From the Bulgarian Society for SMFE
On May 14th, 2009 Georg Stefanoff, Professor Emeritus of the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy - Sofia (UACEG) and Doctor Honoris Causa (1993) of the Technical University Vienna celebrated his ninetieth birthday.
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