ISSMGE News & Information Circular - November 2017

Please visit thenew-look ISSMGE website ?http://www.issmge.org/ for full details of all ISSMGE activities.

1. Webinars :
- Please visit the website: https://www.issmge.org/media/recorded-webinars for a full list of
previously recorded ISSMGE webinars.

2. Bulletin :
- The latest edition of the ISSMGE Bulletin (Volume 11, Issue 5, October 2017) is available
from https://www.issmge.org/publications/issmge-bulletin/vol-11-issue-5-oct-20170

3. ISSMGE Foundation
- The next deadline for receipt of applications for awards from the ISSMGE Foundation is the1st February 2018.
Please visit the website: https://www.issmge.org/issmge-foundation for further information on the ISSMGE Foundation.

4. Call to select the 2nd Hutchinson Lecturer - JTC1 on Landslides and Natural Slopes
- The Joint Technical Committee no 1 (JTC1) on Landslides and Natural Slopes set up by the sister societies
active in the domain of geo-engineering, the ISSMGE, the ISRM, the IAEG and the IGS,
is launching a call to select the 2nd Hutchinson Lecturer.

- The Lecture has been established to award a scholar, aged 42 or less at the time of the event,
who has significantly contributed through his/her research and other work to the development
of knowledge in the field of slope stability and landslides.

- The Hutchinson Lecture that will be delivered during the 2nd JTC1 Workshop, will focus on research
undertaken out by the lecturer, consistent with the topic of the event.

- The provisional title of the workshop, that should take place in Hong Kong in
December, 2018, is triggering and propagation of rapid flow-like landslides.

- The Hutchinson lecturer, who should have a disciplinary background from one or more
of the domains of the geosciences, will be appointed by vote of the members of the JTC1 Committee,
based upon candidatures proposed by national societies. Any country is then asked to submit the name and
the CV of one (national) candidate by December, 31, 2017. The proposals should be sent to Luciano Picarelli, as chairman
of the JTC1(luciano.picarelli@unicampania.it).

5.Conferences
- For a listing of all ISSMGE and ISSMGE supported conferences , please visit the website: https://www.issmge.org/events

The following are events that have been added/upated since the previous Circular:

ISSMGE Events
- 18th KLJE Lecture, 10-11-2017 - 11-11-2017
Conference centre BRDO pri Kranju, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Organizer: SLOGeD,
Website:http://www.sloged.si, Email:vojkan.jovicic@irgo.si

- International Symposium on Geotechnics for Transportation Infrastructure, 07-04-2018 - 08-04-2018
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, Organiser: Indian Geotechnical Society,
Email: ictg2018@gmail.com, Website:http://www.isgti2018.org/index.html

Non-ISSMGE Events
- Fifth World Landslide Forum,02-11-2020 - 06-11-2020
Kyoto International Conference Center, Japan ; Website:http://wlf5.iplhq.org/; Email:secretariat@iclhq.org