Call for Abstracts: IMECE 2014 Symposium on Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials

Dear Colleague,

We would like to invite you to participate in the Annual Symposium on “Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials” at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Expo (IMECE) to be held in Montreal, Quebec (Nov. 14-20, 2014).

Please find attached the Call-for-Papers for the symposium. The conference website is at: http://www.asmeconferences.org/congress2014/

To submit an abstract please click on “Submit Abstract” on the left side and follow the instructions. For the track, choose “Track 16 Vibration, Acoustics & Wave Propagation”, and for the topic, choose “16-5 Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials”.

The conference requires each contributor to submit an abstract by February 17. This abstract can be a short preliminary version at this stage and a final abstract can be submitted at a later date. Once you enter the website to submit your draft abstract, you will be given the option of "presentation only" or "full paper". If you choose the latter, the deadline for a draft version of the full paper is April 14, 2014. All other important dates/deadlines are listed in the website.

This will be the tenth edition of the ASME IMECE Symposium on Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials, having initiated in 2005. The following is a list of the keynote and tutorial speakers that have presented at the symposium over the years. We are pleased to announce that the 2014 keynote speaker in Montreal is Professor Andrew Norris from Rutgers University.

ASME IMECE Keynote/Tutorial Speakers

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2005-Orlando, Florida:                        ---

2006-Chicago, Illinois:                        M.S. Kushwaha

2007-Seattle, Washington:                   J. Sanchez-Dehesa

2008-Boston, Massachusetts:               C.T. Sun

2009-Lake Buena Vista, Florida:         ---

2010-Vancouver, British Columbia:    I. El-Kady

2011-Denver, Colorado:                      P.A. Deymier

2012-Houston, Texas:                         V. Laude

2013-San Diego, California:                G.W. Milton

2014-Montreal, Quebec:                      A.N. Norris

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact any members of the Symposium Organizing Committee listed below. We look forward to seeing you in Montreal in Nov. 2014.

Symposium Organizing Committee

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Badreddine Assouar

Liang-Wu Cai

Nicholas X. Fang

Mahmoud I. Hussein (Chair)

Alessandro Spadoni

Jinkyu Yang