Dear InterPore friends,

Today’s newsletter features the InterPore Academy pre-recorded Short-Course series. If you have
missed a
short course or want to suggest the course to a colleague, this is your chance. When composing this
Newsletter, I came to realize that we probably would not have had this feature without the highly
accelerated
extending of online possibilities. A year ago, we’d be travelling across the globe.

Of course, we need in-person contact. Online meetings won’t fully replace in-person meetings. As a
complimentary option it helps extending our global interaction. Of course, the InterPore2021
conference (abstract deadline February 9, please submit your abstract here) will be a new example of
interacting
online. In particular, I have high hopes for the online poster sessions that closely resemble an
in-person
poster session (with video-chatrooms for each poster).

We went to extremes. From completely offline to completely online. What is your vision regarding a
mix of
both? What should online and in-person look like? For InterPore2022? Feel free to drop me a line.

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

The Call for
Abstracts
is now open for InterPore2021 Online!
Deadline: 9 February

Click here to
submit

Conference Format

Following the feedback we received from InterPore2020, we will make the pre-recorded oral
presentations
available for viewing 9 days prior to the conference so that you don’t miss a thing – no matter
where you are.

New at InterPore2021, there will not just be live Q&A sessions but “real” oral presentations of
10
minutes followed by 5 minutes of live Q&A.

Furthermore, poster presentations will be as close to an in-person presentation as we can get, e.g.,
there
will be a video chatroom available for each poster presenter during poster session, allowing not
only for
discussions but also exchange of images.

InterPore Foundation for Porous Media Science and Technology (InterPore Foundation) has set up a
limited number
of conference grants, funded by generous donations from InterPore members. These grants include
conference fee
waivers for the InterPore2021 online conference.

The deadline for submitting an application is Tuesday, 30 March; however, you are
encouraged
to apply as soon as possible. The applications will be evaluated by the Conference Grant Committee,
and
successful applicants will be notified by Tuesday, 06 April.

For more information, please visit the website.

Don’t miss a moment!

InterPore Academy: Short Course
registration
now open

InterPore Academy of Porous Media will open REGISTRATION on Monday, 25 January for
viewing
pre-recorded Short Courses.

Deadline for
registration:
Saturday, 20 February
(23:59 PST)

Recordings will be available for viewing from Monday, 1 February until Sunday, 28 February (23:59
PST).

Short Courses offered for recorded viewing (click links below for course abstract and course
information):

To register as an InterPore member, you need to log
into
your account on Interpore.org or create an account and purchase a membership here. Once logged into your account, select
Event
Registration from the left menu and then select the correct course. You will be
prompted
to log into your Indico account in order to complete registration. It will be
possible to
create an Indico account if you don’t have one.

Please note that both InterPore members and nonmembers need to have an Indico account to register for
the
short course.

Course fees

Course registration FEES for Prof. Blunt and Prof. Hassanizadeh’s courses:

Course registration FEES for Prof. Hajibeygi’s course:

Impact of porous media
research on
the security of our society

InterPore president Professor Laura Pyrak-Nolte was invited as Keynote Speaker at the
University
Alliance of the Silk Road (UASR) President Forum. Laura
discussed the
impact of porous media research on the security of our society.

The event was jointly organized by Politecnico di Milano
(InterPore
Institutional Member) and Xi’an Jiaotong University. Her talk can be watched from our InterPore YouTube channel.

German Chapter meeting

The German Chapter of InterPore, organized by SFB 1313 of the University of Stuttgart, will hold its
next
assembly on 1-2 February 2021. Despite the pandemic, a strong demand for a scientific exchange in
the
community is felt, especially during these difficult times. Therefore, it has been decided to change
to an
online meeting.

The meeting will feature five plenary talks and more than 40 short talks in various fields of
porous-media
research. For detailed information please visit the homepage.

Mexican Chapter meeting

The community related to research, development, and applications of porous media is invited to
participate in the Annual Meeting of the Mexican InterPore Chapter (RACMI 2021), which in this
occasion due to
the circumstances of COVID-19, will be held online on 4-5 March 2021. The Mexican InterPore Chapter
(CMI) is
part of the International Society of Porous Media (InterPore).

If you are interested in participating in RACMI 2021, please register here
and submit your one-page abstract before 5 February 2021.

More information can be found in the attached
flyer (39 KB).

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session
at 26
January at 15.00 pm CEST local
time
on our YouTube
Channel.

The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successful
Geoscience and Geoenergy
webinars with
the focus placed on young professionals.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you online!

Catherine Spurin (ICL), Kamalijt Singh (HW), Marcel Moura (PoreLab, UiO), Tom Bultreys (UGhent),
Mohammad
Nooraiepour (UiO), Maja Ruecker (ICL)

Promote your Publication

InterPore Members, do you want to promote your publication to the community? If so, please submit
your
highlight to newsletter@InterPore.org.
Clearly
indicate which of the authors is an InterPore member (or the institute with an Institutional
Membership). Note that we will not review the entries nor does InterPore endorse
the published
work. Furthermore, we publish on a “submitted first, published first” basis. The highlighted
publication
should be no older than 6 months (available online).

The highlight should be short (max 100 words) and contain an illustration.
Please note
that we offer this opportunity exclusively to InterPore members. If you would like to become a
member,
please have a look here.

• PhD
  position, Thermoregulation and ventilation in termite nests: Towards bio-inspired solutions
  to design
  energy efficient buildings. Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University,
  UK
• Postdoctoral
  position in flow, and hydrodynamic transport in permeable media, Technical University of
  Madrid and/or
  Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain

If you have a job opening in your institute and you want international promotion for it, please
send the
description to newsletter@interpore.org and we’ll it to the list