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Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce the Symposium

Mechanics and Physics of Porous Solids: a Tribute to Pr. Olivier Coussy

Dear All,
I would like to announce a symposium in memory of Pr. Olivier Coussy

Mechanics and Physics of Porous Solids : a tribute to Pr. Olivier Coussy

It will be held at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France from 18 to 20 April 2011.

All informations can be found in the ongoing website http://navier.enpc.fr/events/mpps2011

Jean-Michel Pereira
on behalf of the organizing committee

A post-doctoral position is available at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (Paris, France) in Offshore Geomechanics. The theme of this 1 year research fellow position is:

Mechanical behaviour of ocean sediments and offshore geohazards

More information is available at the web page of Navier research department of Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

Two PhD scholarships, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, are currently available in the Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geosciences at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) (Barcelona, Spain). The PhD positions are associated to the Project “Progressive failure and the reactivation of big landslides: Analysis, prediction and risks (BIG RISK)” with Professor Eduardo Alonso and Professor Jordi Corominas as principal researchers.