The oral presentation program for the 1st International Conference on Abrasive Processes (ICAP-1) is now available at the conference website (www.icap.elsevier.com). Evolving from earlier meetings [the International Conference on Liquid and Solid Impact (ELSI-IX) and the International Conference on Erosive and Abrasive Wear (ICEAW-II)], ICAP-1 will be held in the historic city of Cambridge, England, 21-25 September 2008. You are invited to join your peers by registering for this popular single-stream meeting.

I am delighted to announce on behalf of Elsevier that Professor Michael Ortiz of CalTech has won the very first Rodney Hill Prize in Solid mechanics in reconition of his body of research during the decade 1998-2007. The prize will be presented at ICTAM in Adelaide on 27 August by Y.S. Chi, Vice Chairman of Elsevier immediately prior to Michael's Hill Prize lecture. For more details please see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/P10.cws_home/hillprizewinner

Dean Eastbury

Publisher

Elsevier, UK  

I am pleased to announce that Volume 1, Number 2 of the the recently-launched Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (www.elsevier.com/locate/jmbbm) has been published by Elsevier. All JMBBM articles can be accessed free-of-charge on ScienceDirect until September 2008 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17516161).

The full program for the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis is available at www.icefa.elsevier.com. Join your peers and take advantage of the 15% "early bird" discount by registering for this popular and well-received single stream meeting before 30 April. The conference takes place July 13-16 in the beautiful coastal town of Sitges, just a few miles from Barcelona's international airport. 

Authors are invited to submit, via the conference website, a 200-250 word abstract by 1 June 2008. The 17th International Conference on Wear of Materials (www.wom-conference.elsevier.com) will take place in Las Vegas, April 19-22, 2009. The conference will focus on both the fundamental and applied aspects of wear and friction of materials at the macro-, micro- and nano-scale.

The full oral program for the 7th International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials is now available at http://www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com/index.htm. Join your peers by registering for this popular single-stream meeting held in Hyannis, MA, USA on beautiful Cape Cod, September 14-19, 2008.  

The full oral program is now available via the conference website at http://www.tc4pca.elsevier.com/index.htm. Register now to participate at this well-received single session conference held in the beautiful Alpine village of Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

Evolving from earlier meetings on erosion, the International Conference on Liquid and Solid Impact (ELSI-IX) and the International Conference on Erosive and Abrasive Wear (ICEAW-II), the 1st International Conference on Abrasive Processes (ICAP-I) will be held in the historic city of Cambridge, England, 21-25 September 2008.

You are invited to join international delegates for this fully residential conference by submitting an abstract by 27 January 2008. Details can be found at www.icap.elsevier.com

Evolving from earlier meetings on erosion, the International Conference on Liquid and Solid Impact (ELSI-IX) and the International Conference on Erosive and Abrasive Wear (ICEAW-II), the 1st International Conference on Abrasive Processes (ICAP-I) will be held in the historic city of Cambridge, England, 21-25 September 2008.

You are invited to join international delegates for this fully residential conference by submitting an abstract by 27 January 2008. Details can be found at www.icap.elsevier.com

The abstract submission deadline for this next conference in the biennial Engineering Failure Analysis series (www.icefa.elsevier.com) is 30 November 2007.

The conference will take place in the coastal town of Sitges, just a short distance from Barcelona's international airport, from 13 to 16 July 2008.    

The abstract submission deadline for this next conference in the biennial Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials series (www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com) is 28 November 2007.

The conference will take place will take place in Hyannis, MA, USA, 14-19 September 2008. Hyannis is located on the beautiful Cape Cod peninsula just 90 minutes from Boston's Logan International Airport and T.F.Green Airport in Providence.   

Elsevier is offering a 10% discount off the full registration fee for the 2nd International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials & Tissues (www.icmobt.elsevier.com). This offer will end on 26 October 2007.

I hope you are able to come to Kaua'i and take part in this exciting and well-received conference.

Dean Eastbury

Publisher, Elsevier 

The abstract submission deadline for this next conference in the triennial Fracture of Polymers, Composites & Adhesives series (www.tc4pca.elsevier.com) is 2 November 2007.

The conference will take place will take place in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 7-11 September 2008. Les Diablerets is a beautiful alpine village set in the mountains above Lac Leman just 90 minutes from Geneva International Airport by car or train.  

I am pleased to announce that Volume 1, Number 1 (January 2008) of the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials is published in both print and online on ScienceDirect. This first issue contains three excellent review articles on bone and dentin, human enamel, and biocompatability of Ti-alloys as well as eight research papers.

The online version of all four issues in Volume 1 can be viewed free of charge until September 2008. For further details please see http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bESJ001/mQNA874/uOPDV5/xS5EBB

Dean Eastbury, Publisher

The program for the 2nd International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials & Tissues, to be held on the beautiful island of Kaua'i in December, is now available on the website at www.icmobt.elsevier.com. Network with your fellow researchers working in this exciting field by registering for this well-received meeting. Anybody registering before 26 October is eligible for a 10% discount off the full conference fee.

I look forward to seeing you in Lihue on December 9.

Dean Eastbury

Publisher, Elsevier 

The seventh conference in the Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials series (www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com) will be held once again in Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA, 14-19 September 2008. Hyannis is situated on the historic Cape Cod peninsula just 90 minutes from either Logan International Airport (Boston, MA) or TF Green Airport (Providence, RI). 

Following successful meetings in Lisbon and Toronto in 2004 and 2006, Elsevier will be running the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis (www.icefa.elsevier.com) in the beautiful town of Sitges in July 2008. Sitges is situated on the coast of Catalunya, Spain, just a short distance from Barcelona International Airport.

I am often asked by authors about Elsevier's copyright policy and author's rights. These are clearly written in the Guide for Authors which can be found on each and every journal homepage, e.g. www.elsevier.com/locate/ijsolstr. Scott Virkler, VP of Web Search Strategy at Elsevier's New York office, also explains how with millions of web searches taking place every day it would be impossible for individual authors to monitor the correct use of their work, and how by transferring copyright to Elsevier enables it to assume the burden of monitoring the use of material, while protecting the publishing process (Protecting your ideas in the Internet age)

In December 2007 Elsevier will organise the 2nd International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials & Tissues (www.icmobt.elsevier.com). The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of the modeling and measurement of deformation and fracture behavior in biological materials and in those materials which are used to replace them in the human body.