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Congress Minisymposia

CALL FOR MINISYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS

A wide variety of minisymposia forms the backbone of the Congress' technical program. A minisymposium consists of one or more technical sessions that focus on a specific topic or research area associated with Computational Mechanics. The technical sessions provide a flexible format that accommodates keynote lectures, invited, and contributed papers. Volunteer minisymposium organizers will develop each minisymposium individually. The organizers are responsible for the technical content of their minisymposium; they select invited participants, and review abstracts of contributed papers.

The Technical Program Chairs invite proposals for minisymposia from the Computational Mechanics community. All proposals must be submitted electronically via the Congress web site. There should be at least two organizers for each minisymposium; it is desirable that they represent more than one institution. Teaming of U.S. and international co-organizers is encouraged. The minisymposia proposals deadline is January 15, 2007. Notification of the final selection of minisymposia will be given no later than February 1, 2007.

MINISYMPOSIUM TOPICS

The Ninth US National Congress on Computational Mechanics will feature symposia in several emerging and mature areas:

Biophysics,
Mesh Generation,
Error Analysis,
Meshfree Methods,
Finite Element Technology,
Failure Analysis,
Applications in Engineering Practice,
Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis,
Computational Dynamics,
Stochastic FEA,
Inverse Problems,
Coupled Problems,
Computational Acoustics,
Computational Electromagnetics,
Granular Materials/discrete element methods,
Automotive Problems,
Advances in Commercial Finite Element Software,
Multiscale Methods in Materials Modeling
Computational Advances in Modeling Heterogeneous Materials,
Geotechnical Applications,
Contact-Impact Problems in Nonlinear Mechanics,
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods,
Computational Combustion,
Methods and Applications in Coupled Engineering Simulation, and
Computational Fluid Dynamics

We strongly encourage participants to organize mini-symposia. If you wish to do so, please email both of the conference chairman, Prof. Panos Papadopoulos and Prof. Tarek I. Zohdi, with the title of the mini-symposia, an abstract in plain text, and a complete list of contact addresses for the mini-symposium organizers.