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
under Dynamic Loading (Majid T. Manzari)
-Poroelastic Mechanics of Bone Tissue (Stephen C. Cowin)
-Numerical Investigation of Coupled Problems in Continuum Biomechanics
(Wolfgang Ehlers)
-Nanoporous Metals (Jeffrey W. Kysar)
-Poromechanical modeling of CO2 sequestration (Giuseppe Gambolati)
-Unsaturated Geomaterials (Ning Lu)
-Micro-Mechanics of Granular Porous Media (Mourad Zeghal)
-Thermodynamics and Information Theory (Shu-Kun Lin, MDPI, Switzerland)
-Second Frank L. DiMaggio Symposium (sessions on constitutive modeling of
geomaterials)
-Poromechanics Education (Graduate Course development, etc.)