SES 2010 Annual Technical Meeting - Call for Symposia

Dear Colleague:

The Society of the Engineering Science is sponsoring the 47th Annual Technical Meeting (SES2010) on October 4-6, 2010 at Iowa State University in Ames, IA. The meeting is held on biannual basis as a standalone meeting to foster and promote the exchange of ideas and information among the various disciplines of engineering and the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, bioengineering and related scientific and engineering fields.

The overarching theme of the conference is multi-scale multi-physics phenomena. The conference will have the following general topical tracks:

• Biomechanics
• Computational Methods
• Dynamics
• Fluid Mechanics
• Mechanics of Materials and Structures
• Multi-Physics Phenomena
• Non-Destructive Evaluations

The SES2010 website is now up and running (http://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/ses2010/form1.html) and we have begun to populate the site with symposia topics.

The organizers invite you to organize a mechanics-related symposium under any of the conference tracks. The proposed symposium should bring the diverse audience in these multidisciplinary fields to expand cooperation, understanding and promotion of efforts and disciplines in these areas. New research results, new developments, and novel concepts are key for the development of these symposia.

Symposia consist of two or more five-paper sessions focused on a narrow theme, under one of the general conference tracks. An abstracts will be required for oral presentation per the usual practice at SES meetings.

Your duties as Symposium Organizer will be mainly to solicit papers, assign session chairs as needed, ensure that all deadlines are met through the web-based submission and review service, schedule presentations in your symposium, maintain good communication with the local organizers at Iowa State and of course attend the conference.

 Please submit your proposed topic directly to the SES2010 organizing committee (ses2010@iastate.edu) for approval by March 5, 2010. The organizing committee will review and combined symposia as deemed appropriate to prevent topic fragmentation and duplications.

If you have any questions regarding the SES2010 meeting please feel free to contact one of the organizing committee directly:

Ashraf Bastawros, General Chair bastaw@iastate.edu
Aerospace Engineering

Bulent Biner, biner@ameslab.gov
Aerospace Engineering

Abhijit Chandra, achandra@iastate.edu
Mechanical Engineering

Dale Chimenti, chimenti@iastate.edu
Aerospace Engineering
Center of Non-Destructive Evaluations

Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, baskarg@iastate.edu
Mechanical Engineering

Steve Holland, sdh4@iastate.edu
Aerospace Engineering
Center of Non-Destructive Evaluations

Wei Hong, whong@iastate.edu
Aerospace Engineering

Hui Hu, huhui@iastate.edu
Aerospace Engineering

Valery Levitas, vlevitas@iastate.edu
Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace Engineering

Richard LeSar, lesar@iastate.edu
Materials Science & Engineering

Thomas Rudolphi, rudolphi@iastate.edu
Aerospace Engineering

Lester Schmerr, lschmerr@iastate.edu
Aerospace Engineering

Pranav Shrotriya, shrotriy@iastate.edu
Mechanical Engineering

Bruce Thompson, rbthomps@iastate.edu
Aerospace Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering
Center of Non-Destructive Evaluations