<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body>Desde: 12-06-2013<br>Hasta: 14-06-2013<br>Lugar: <strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Island of Kos, Greece</span></strong><br><br><br><!--[if !mso]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" /></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"><o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" /></o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">COMPDYN 2013 </span></strong><strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">– Announcement of the </span></strong><strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">4<sup>th </sup>International Conference on</span></strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.<strong></strong></span></strong><span style="color:black" lang="EL"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">12-14 June 2013</span></strong><span style="color:black" lang="EL"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Island of Kos, Greece</span></strong><span style="color:black" lang="EL"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="color:black" lang="EL"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Dear Colleague,</span><span style="color:black" lang="EL"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black" lang="EL"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">We are pleased to announce the<strong></strong><strong>4<sup>th </sup>International Conference on</strong><strong>Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering</strong></span><strong><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US">(COMPDYN 2013), </span></strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">which will take place in the<strong><em> Island of Kos</em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-weight:normal">,</span> Greece, in June 12-14, 2013</em></strong></span><strong><em><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"></span></em></strong><strong><span style="font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">in conjunction with the III South-East European Conference on Computational Mechanics (SEECCM III).</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US"></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Previous meetings in the COMPDYN series were held in Greece in 2007 </span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">(Rethymno, Crete), 2009 (Rhodes) and 2011 (Corfu). </span><strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">COMPDYN </span></strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">conferences have become established events in the field of computational </span><span lang="EN-GB">dynamics and earthquake engineering.</span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">The purpose of <strong>COMPDYN 2013</strong> is to bring together the scientific communities of Computational Mechanics, Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, in an effort to facilitate the exchange of ideas in topics of mutual interest and to serve as a platform for establishing links between research groups with complementary activities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">COMPDYN 2013</span></strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"> is one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) and a Special Interest Conference of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM). It has also been promoted by the European Committee on Computational Solids and Structural Mechanics (EC</span><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-GB">C</span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">SM) of ECCOMAS.  </span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Key Date: </span></strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Deadline for presenting a one page abstract is <strong>October 29, 2012</strong>.</span><span style="color:black" lang="EL"></span></p><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><strong><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Further information is available at URL: <a href="http://www.compdyn2013.org" target="_blank">http://www.compdyn2013.org</a>.</span></strong><span style="color:black" lang="EL"></span></p></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">We kindly invite you to mark COMPDYN 2013 date in your calendar, and inform other colleagues who might be interested in attending the conference. </span><span style="color:black" lang="EL"></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">We thank you for your cooperation and look forward to welcoming you in Kos in June 2013.</span><span style="color:black" lang="EL"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black" lang="EL"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Sincerely,<br></span><span style="color:black" lang="EL">Manolis Papadrakakis</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><em><span lang="EN-US">Conference <span style="color:black">Chairman </span></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"> </span></em></p></div></body></html>