5th International Symposium on Defect and Material Mechanics - Abstract Deadline January 30th 2011

We are delighted to invite you to submit your contribution to ISDMM11. The conference will take place in Seville, Spain, June 27 – July 1st 2011.

ISDMM11 is the fifth international meeting devoted to Mechanics of Material Forces, following the workshops held at Kaiserslautern (2003), Symi (2005), Aussois (2007) and Trento (2009), and will be held in the city of Seville, Spain, from June 27 to July 1, 2011. The Symposium is intended to bring together researchers in the areas of the mechanics of defects, in a broad sense: cracks, dislocations, inclusions, precipitates, phase boundaries, and shape optimization.

Scientific Committee: 

P. Ariza (University of Sevilla, Spain) Chair
D. Bigoni (University of Trento, Italy)
R. Kienzler (University of Bremen, Germany)
X. Markenscoff (University of California-San Diego, USA)
A. Needleman (University of North Texas, USA)
M. Ortiz (California Institute of Technology, USA)
P. Steinmann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
C. Stolz (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
V. Tvergaard (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) 

Plenary Speakers (confirmed plenay speakers to date)

Gilles Francfort (Universite Paris Nord)
Ben Freund (Brown University)
Richard James (University of Minnesota)
Rodolfo Miranda (LASUAM Madrid)
Nick Schryvers (University of Antwerp)

For more information visit http://congreso.us.es/isdmm2011/