conference

The Fourteenth Pan American
Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XIV) will be held in Santiago, Chile from
March 24th to 28th, 2014, in collaboration with Universidad de Chile
and Universidad de los Andes.

The following is the list of
plenary speakers:

-
David Steigmann, University of California,
Berkeley.

- Charles Meneveau, Johns Hopkins University.

- Kumbakonam Rajagopal, University of Texas
A&M.

- Raymond Ogden, University of Glasgow.

We are pleased to announce the following speakers:

• Julio M.  Fernández, Columbia University, USA

• Guy Genin, WUSTL, USA (bone-tendon mechanics, brain injury)

• Morteza Gharib, California Institute of Technology, USA

• Stanislav N. Gorb, Zoological Institute of the University of Kiel, Germany

• Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez, Imperial College, UK (surfaces and ceramics)

• Jamie Kruzic, Oregon State University, USA (biomaterials, interfaces)

You are welcome to submit an abstract to the MS 101 "Modeling of surface effects in nanomaterials and heterostructures" at the APCOM & ISCM 2013 conference (Singapore, 11-14th December, 2013), organized by prof. H.L. Duan (Peking University, Beijing) and myself.

 http://www.apcom2013.org/index.html

The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 15th May 2013.

Loooking forward to see you in Singapore.

CREATIVITY ENGINEERING 

From a creative idea..... 

     ...to its successful marketing 

By :   Dr. Hesamedin Ostad‐Ahmad‐Ghorabi 

For further information, please see the attachments.

Dear fellow researcher in finite elements 

We will be hosting a 3 day course on the state-of-the-art open-source finite element library deal.II . The course will be run by Prof Wolfgang Bangerth from Texas A&M. It will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 5-7 August 2013. The course is aimed at postgraduate students and researchers who wish to learn the fundamentals of deal.II for use in their own research.