Rock Mechanics Conferences & Meetings

2008

• April 17-18, 2008, West Sacramento, California - Advanced Rock Slope Stability Analysis: Numerical Methods
  Instructor: CARMA member Dr. Erik Eberhardt, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
  Cost: $250 for AEG Members; $300 for Non-Members; and $350 at the door if space is available.
  Further course details and registration information are available here.
  Corporate sponsorship opportunities are also available.
  Information: Patrick Jenks, pjenks@wallace-kuhl.com or (916) 372-1434.

• April 21-25, 2008, Emeryville, CA - Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering: A short course of the American Rock Mechanics Association

• May 6-8, 2008, Botswana - 11th International Seminar on Paste and Thickened Tailings
  Register here
• May 6-9, 2008, Ibis Perth Hotel, Western Australia - Geotechnical Engineering for Open Pit Mines & Pit Slope Instrumentation & Monitoring Techniques
  Download the registration brochure
• May14-15, 2008, Sydney, NSW, Australia - Coal Tailings Impoundments: Risks, Responses and Alternatives Short Course
  Please download the registration brochure.

• June 29 – July 2, 2008, San Francisco, CA - SanFrancisco 2008 42nd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium

• July 24-25, 2008, Ibis Perth Hotel, Western Australia - Blasting for Stable Slopes
  Please download the registration brochure.
• September 1-2, 2008, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia – 1st South American Symposium on Rock Excavations: an ISRM Regional Symposium

• September 16-19, 2008, perth, Western Australia - 1st Southern Hemisphere International Rock Mechanics Symposium - SHIRMS 2008
  Abstract submissions extended to April 3, 2008.

• September 21 - 24, 2008, Dunhuang, China – International Symposium on Conservation of Ancient Sites (ISCAS-2008): an ISRM Regional Symposium
• Sept. 28 - Oct. 1, 2008, Quebec City - Canada Third International Seminar on Strategic vs Tactical Approaches in Mining
  Download the Call for Papers brochure.
• October 14-17, 2008, South Africa - Third International Seminar on Mine Closure
  Abstracts due now

• October 30-31, 2008, Izmir, Turkey - IX.th Turkish Rock Mechanics Symposium
  The symposium is jointly organized by the Geological and mining Departments of the Dokuz Eylül University at the university’s Buca Campus. Papers are invited on all the topics within the scope of rock mechanics.
  For Symposium costs and other specifics email:Prof. Dr. Necdet TÜRK

• November 24 - 26, 2008, Teheran, Iran – 5th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (ARMS 5): the 2008 ISRM International Symposium

2009

• January 4-11, 2009, Tucson, Arizona, International Conference on Rock Joints and Jointed Rock Masses
  If you are interested in either contributing a paper for the conference or participating as a short course lecturer, workshop organizer or as an attendee, exhibitor please fill out the Preliminary Information Form available on the website (under the Registration section). Please note that the deadline to receive abstracts is May 15th, 2008


• March 12-13, 2009,Jomtien Palm Beach Resort, Pattaya, Thailand, The Second Thailand Rock Mechanics Symposium (ThaiRock 2009)


• May 18-22, 2009, Sacramento, CA - Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Conference, Geo-Institute of ASCE


• May 19-22, 2009, The University of Hong Kong, SINOROCK 2009 - Rock Characterisation, Modelling and Engineering Design Methods
• September 15 - 17, (or 23 - 25 June) 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland – Symposium on Rock Mechanics: an ISRM Regional Symposium
• October 29 -31, 2009, Dubrovnik-Cavtat, Croatia – Rock Engineering in Difficult Ground Conditions, Soft Rocks and Karst: an ISRM Regional Symposium

2011

• October 16 - 21, 2011, Beijing, China – Harmonizing Rock Mechanics and the Environment: the 12th ISRM International Congress.