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Title:
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Advances in Boundary Element Methods 

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Organizers:
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Ernie Pan
Department of Civil Engineering
The University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-3905, United States
E-mail:  pan2@uakron.edu
Tel.:  1 (330) 972-6739

Yijun Liu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0072, United States
E-mail:  Yijun.Liu@uc.edu
Tel.:  1 (513) 556-4607

Martin Schanz
Graz University of Technology
Institute of Applied Mechanics
Technikerstr. 4, A-8010 Graz, Austria
E-mail:  m.schanz@tugraz.at
Tel.: 43 (316) 873-7600

Mitsunori (Mitch) Denda
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States
E-mail:  denda@jove.rutgers.edu
Tel.:  1 (732) 445-4391 

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Minisymposium description:
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A minisymposium on Advances in Boundary Element Methods is being organized for the 9th US National 
Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM9) to be held in San Francisco, CA, July 22-26, 2007. 
This symposium will bring together researchers from academia, government research laboratories, 
and industries around the world to discuss the recent progresses in the development of the boundary 
integral equation and boundary element methods (BIE/BEM). Researchers from all countries are cordially 
invited to participate in this minisymposium. Presentations dealing with all aspects of the BIE/BEM 
formulations and applications as well as various fundamental solution-based multiscale and 
BIE/BEM-involved hybrid approaches are welcome. Topics will include, but be not limited to:

   1. Fast boundary element methods (e.g., fast multipole methods, parallel computing, and others);
   2. Large-scale, multi-scale and multi-physics analyses using BIE/BEM and combined methods;
   3. Efficient coupling of the BEM with other methods;
   4. Modeling of novel materials (e.g., NEMS/MEMS, composites, functionally graded, and others);
   5. Wave propagation problems; Fracture mechanics problems;
   6. Multiscale Green?s functions and applications;
   7. Other formulations (e.g., boundary meshless methods, method of fundamental solutions);
   8. Software development and industrial applications.