----- Title: ----- Mathematical Developments in Modern Topics in Composite Mechanics ----------- Organizers: ----------- Peter Schiavone Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Alberta 4-9 Mechanical Engineering Building Edmonton, T6G 2G8 Alberta, Canada E-mail: P.Schiavone@ualberta.ca Web page : http://www.mece.ualberta.ca/staff/schiavon.htm Tel/Voicemail: (780) 492 3638 Fax: (780) 492 2200 Stanislav Potapenko Department of Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada Phone : (519) 888-4567 ext. 37156 Fax: (519) 888-6197Email: spotapenko@uwaterloo.ca Christian Constanda Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Oliphant Professor of Mathematics The University of Tulsa 600 South College Avenue Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104, USA Tel: +1 918 631 3068 Fax: +1 918 631 3077 E-mail: christian-constanda@utulsa.edu ------------------------- Minisymposium description: ------------------------- Recently, there have been significant advances in the development of certain mathematical techniques used to analyze problems dealing with advanced composite materials. These techniques lend themselves well to both analytical and computational investigations allowing researchers to establish meaningful results of interest to scientists and practitioners alike. For example, problems dealing with materials with significant microstructure have been analyzed using semi-analytical techniques such as the boundary element method while a class of composite materials involving elastic inhomogeneities and an (imperfect) interphase layer have been analyzed in detail (for both finite and linear elasticity) using series methods and complex variable techniques. This minisymposium will focus on theoretical and computational aspects of the application of the above-mentioned techniques to interesting problems in engineering and applied science.