LARAM School 2020 goes online: the 15th doctoral school on “LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation”
LARAM is an International School on “LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation” of the University of Salerno (http://www.laram.unisa.it/). The School is held annually and is aimed at 40 PhD students selected every year from those working in the field of Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Engineering Geology or with a similar Engineering background. The School can be also attended by Young Doctors who defended their PhD thesis in the previous 5 years.
The School is, in normal circumstances, residential. This year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the LARAM Scientific Committee and the coordination team decided not to lose the occasion to teach and be together with the students, but rather to do it in a different way. To achieve this aim, the two middle weeks of September were confirmed as the dates of LARAM School 2020, yet it was decided to run a fully online edition of the school using a suitable online platform.
The following signature characteristics of LARAM remain unchanged, also in this year’s online format of the school: two-week duration, international application call, selection among the applicants to form the class, final certificate of attendance to the students, mandatory and interactive participation of the students to the school activities.
Dates: 7 - 18 September 2020
Time: Each day from 13:00 to 19:30, Italian summertime (UTC+2)
Deadline for applications: June 29, 2020
The LARAM class will be composed by:
- 40 selected PhD students (link)
Candidates must include in their application a curriculum vitae and up to three recommendation letters. The selection will be based on an evaluation of the candidate’s curriculum - including academic performance, previous research experience and publications - and on the content of the recommendation letter(s) in relation to the PhD course years, field of expertise and research topic. Apply here: http://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2020online/application_phd_students
- up to 10 registered young doctors (link)
The young doctors (max 10), with PhD defended as far back as 5 years ago, will be able to register on a first-come-first-served basis. Apply here: http://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2020online/registration_young_doctors
Registration fees
- PhD students: Euro 250
- Young doctors: Euro 400
School programme
The programme of the School will consist of 5-hour daily lectures and tutorials from Monday to Friday and a virtual field trip on Saturday 12 September. Following the tradition, the list of lecturers will be strongly international and the contents and the sequence of the lessons will pay great attention to address both the most advanced theoretical issues as well as to present and discuss relevant landslide case studies coming from many different countries, within the following sessions:
- S1, Introduction to landslides
- S2, Landslide risk theory
- S3, Landslide modelling
- S4, Landslide risk analysis and zoning
- S5, Landslide monitoring and mitigation
- S6, Landslide risk management and risk governance
During the school, the second LARAM Honour Lecture will be delivered. As per rules of the award, the LARAM Honour Lecture is delivered by “a distinguished researcher for outstanding contributions in scientific research and educational activities dealing with landslide risk assessment and mitigation”. We are proud to communicate that the second LARAM Honour lecture will deal with “Reducing landslide risk – Emerging challenges, new paradigms and novel technologies” and will be delivered by Dr. Suzanne Lacasse from NGI, Norway.