<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body><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="Section1"><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Dear<br>Colleague,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The<br>deadline for submission of abstracts to the Twelfth Pan American Congress<br>of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII) is <strong><em>Monday, August 1, 2011.</em></strong></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">PACAM<br>XII will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad from January 2 - 6, 2012, in<br>collaboration with the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.<span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The congress, organized by the American Academy of Mechanics and<br>held every two years, is supported by the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the<br>US Association for Computational Mechanics, the Argentine Association for<br>Computational Mechanics, the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and<br>Engineering, the Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics,<br>and the Chilean Society of Computational Mechanics.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: black;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">We invite you to submit an abstract/full paper on a<br>relevant topic in Applied Mechanics, as described in the conference website <a href="http://www.pacamxii.org/" target="_blank">www.pacamxii.org</a> . The<br>deadline to submit abstracts is August 1, 2011.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: black;">News:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> <br></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">A limited number of travel fellowships will be awarded to<br>young faculty and researchers from the US, thanks to an NSF grant. Details are<br>on the website <a href="http://pacamxii.org/TravelGrants.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://pacamxii.org/TravelGrants.html</span></a> .</span></strong><span style="color: black;"></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> <br></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"> <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">There are 14 specialized<br>mini-symposia (</span></strong><a href="http://pacamxii.org/Minisymposia3.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">http://pacamxii.org/Minisymposia3.html</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">) and 10 different regular session<br>topics (</span></strong><a href="http://pacamxii.org/pacamTopics.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">http://pacamxii.org/pacamTopics.html</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">)</span></strong></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> <br></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The plenary speakers of the congress have now been confirmed: Luiz<br>Bevilacqua (LLNC, Brazil), Gustavo Buscaglia (USP, Brazil), Michael Ortiz<br>(Caltech, USA), Richard Rand (Cornell, USA), Charles Steele (Stanford, USA).</span></strong></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">We hope you can accept this invitation, and look forward to seeing<br>you in Trinidad!</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Jacqueline Bridge and Adrian Lew, PACAM XII Co-chairs </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.pacamxii.org/" target="_blank">www.pacamxii.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><br> CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and/or privileged information. 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