<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body>Dear<br><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Colleague,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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>Saturday, September 3, 2011.</em></strong></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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";<br>color:black">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 US<br>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:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;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> . </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;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:10.0pt;text-align:justify;<br>text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        <br></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";<br>color:black">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:10.0pt;text-align:justify;<br>text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        <br></span></span></span><span style="color:black"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">There are 14 specialized mini-symposia<br>(</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:10.0pt;text-align:justify;<br>text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        <br></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";<br>color:black">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:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";<br>color:black">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:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";<br>color:black"> Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";<br>color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";<br>color:black">Jacqueline Bridge and Adrian Lew, PACAM XII Co-chairs </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";<br>color:black"><a href="http://www.pacamxii.org/" target="_blank">www.pacamxii.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></body></html>