conference

Call for papers (abstract dealine: 28 Feb, 2009): 

"Advances in smart materials and adaptive structures" symposium to be held at the third international conference on integrity, reliability and failure, IRF2009

July 20-24, 2009 Porto, Portugal  

Sponsored by the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto 

Please submit abstract by email to Aarash Sofla: sofla (at) mie.utoronto.ca

The Solid Mechanics group of the University of Trento (Italy) announces ISDMM09, the fourth international meeting devoted to Mechanics of Material Forces, following the workshops held at Kaiserslautern (2003), Symi (2005) and Aussois (2007), and will be held in the alpine city of Trento, Italy, from July 6^th to 9^th, 2009.

Abstract submission: January 31, 2009

More info: http://portale.unitn.it/events/isdmm09

Deadline for Abstract submission: November 3. See www.mrs.org/spring2009.  A symposium entitled "Structure-Property Relationships in Biomineralized and Biomimetic Composites " will be organized at the MRS-spring meeting in San Francisco next year (April 13-17, 2009).

Deadline for Abstract submission: November 3. See www.mrs.org/spring2009.  A symposium entitled "Architectured Multifunctional Materials" will be organized at the MRS-spring meeting in San Francisco next year (April 13-17, 2009). For details see below and attached file.

I would like to invite everyone attending the 2008 ASME IMECE next week in Boston to attend a keynote lecture given by Prof. Ted Belytschko of Northwestern University.  The lecture will occur at 1:45 PM on Tuesday, November 4, and will be entitled "Multiscale Computations of Fracture - When Does Flaw Tolerance Occur?" 

Further information on Prof. Belytschko's talk can be found here: 

http://www.asmeconferences.org/Congress08/PlenarySessions.cfm

CMIS09

5^th Contact Mechanics International Symposium

April 28-30, 2009, Chania, Greece

www.cmis2009.tuc.gr

 organized by

Prof. G.E. Stavroulakis

Technical University of Crete

Extended deadline for abstract submission: 31 October

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Confirmed invited speakers 

Call for papers

2009 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 13-17

Symposium PP: Materials and Devices for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics

Abstract Deadline: 3 November 2008

www.mrs.org/spring2009

Save the date for SBC2009!