INVITATION & CALL FOR PAPERS

In October2011, our first international geotechnical conference Geotec Hanoi
2011 was organized in Hanoi. The conferencewas so successful, with about
450 attendees from 24 countries, and with six keynote-lectures given by Prof.
Sven Hansbo from Sweden, Prof. Kenji Ishihara from Japan, Prof. Harry G.
Poulos from Australia, Prof. Pieter A. Vermeerfrom the Netherlands, Prof. Alain
Guilloux from France, and Dr. Hiroshi Yoshida from Japan. The conference
proceeding with 110 papers, was edited and hard-bound printed with a high
international quality, please see the attachment.

Continuing the success of the conference Geotec Hanoi 2011, we will
organize the second conference GEOTEC HANOI 2013, which is planned to
be held on 28th and 29th November 2013 in Hanoi, Vietnam, please see the
other attachment. There will be five technical sessions in this conference:

1. FOUNDATION FOR HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS
2. UNDERGROUND PROJECTS IN SOFT SOIL
3. SOIL IMPROVEMENT AND REINFORCEMENT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE
4. MONITORING AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR TUNNELS AND EXCAVATIONS
5. GEOTECHNICAL MODELING AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

Similarly to the first conference, we will invite six world leading

professors/experts to give honorable and key-note lectures for the above themes:

1. Prof. Sven Hansbo (Sweden).
2. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Katzenbach (Germany)
3. Prof. Dr. Neil Taylor (UK)
4. Prof. Dr. Fumio Tatsuoka (Japan)
5. Prof. Dr. Kenichi Soga (UK)
6. Prof. Dr. Helmut F. Schweiger (Austria)

During the last three months we have got an overwhelming response to our
conference. Due to the request from many prospective participants, we would
like to extend the deadline for abstract submission to 15 April 2013. The
abstracts would be prepared according to the attached abstract sample, and
submitted online. Please find further info in our conference website,
www.geotechn2013.vn.

We would like to invite you from universities, institutes, and companies, to take
part in our GEOTEC HANOI 2013 conference. Your attendance will be an
honor and a sympathetic support to our conference.

With our best wishes,

Do Minh Duc, Dr. Eng., Assoc. Prof.
Faculty of Geology, VNU University of Science
334 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam
Specially Appointed Assoc. Prof.
Ibaraki University, Japan