The Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics will be held from June 8 to 10, 2009, at Columbia University, New York City. The conference web site is located at: http://www.civil.columbia.edu/biot/

We are now calling for abstracts. Please send the one-page abstracts by e-mail to biot@civil.columbia.edu (deadline: May 31, 2008).

Examples of Technical Sessions:
-Numerical Simulation of Crystal Growth (Koichi Kakimoto)
-Multiscale and Stochastic Modeling of Porous Media (X. Frank Xu)
-Strain Localization in Saturated and Partially Saturated Porous Media