[NotiAMCA] PACAM XII Call for Papers - THE ABSTRACT DEADLINE IS AUGUST 1, 2011

[Victorio Sonzogni]

Dear Colleague,

The deadline for submission of abstracts to the  Twelfth Pan American
Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII) is Monday, August 1, 2011. 

PACAM XII will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad from January 2 - 6,
2012, in collaboration with the University of the West Indies, St.
Augustine.  The congress, organized by the American Academy of Mechanics
and held every two years, is supported by the University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil, the US Association for Computational Mechanics, the Argentine
Association for Computational Mechanics, the Brazilian Society of
Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, the Brazilian Society of Applied
and Computational Mathematics, and the Chilean Society of Computational
Mechanics.

We invite you to submit an abstract/full paper on a relevant topic in
Applied Mechanics, as described in the conference website 
www.pacamxii.org <http://www.pacamxii.org/>  . The deadline to submit
abstracts is August 1, 2011.

News:

*         A limited number of  travel fellowships will be awarded to
young faculty and researchers from the US, thanks to an NSF grant.
Details are on the website http://pacamxii.org/TravelGrants.html
<http://pacamxii.org/TravelGrants.html>  .

*          There are 14 specialized mini-symposia (
http://pacamxii.org/Minisymposia3.html
<http://pacamxii.org/Minisymposia3.html> ) and 10 different regular
session topics (http://pacamxii.org/pacamTopics.html
<http://pacamxii.org/pacamTopics.html> )

*         The plenary speakers of the congress have now been confirmed:
Luiz Bevilacqua (LLNC, Brazil), Gustavo Buscaglia (USP, Brazil), Michael
Ortiz (Caltech, USA), Richard Rand (Cornell, USA), Charles Steele
(Stanford, USA).

We hope you can accept this invitation, and look forward to seeing you
in Trinidad!

 Best regards,

 

Jacqueline Bridge and Adrian Lew, PACAM XII Co-chairs 

www.pacamxii.org <http://www.pacamxii.org/>