<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body><br><br>Dear IACM-Affiliate President:<br><br><br> If possible, could you please forward the email message below to<br> your members within the next day or so? Thank you; please let me<br> know if you have any questions.<br><br><br> Sincerely,<br><br> Ruth Hengst<br><br> USNCCM12 Program Coordinator<br><br> -------------------------------------------------------------<br><br> Dear Colleagues:<br><div class="moz-forward-container"><div class="moz-forward-container"><div class="moz-forward-container"><div class="moz-forward-container"><div class="moz-forward-container"><br><div>There is still time to submit an abstract to the 12th<br> US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, to be<br> held in Raleigh, North Carolina, July 22-25, 2013. The<br> deadline has been extended to <strong>Friday, <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT135_com_zimbra_date">March 15,<br> 2013</span></strong>: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://12.usnccm.org/abstract-submission" target="_blank">http://12.usnccm.org/abstract-submission</a>.<br> The Congress has garnered a large number of<br> mini-symposia from across computational science and<br> engineering, and the list of topics can be found here:</div><br><div> <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT136_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://12.usnccm.org/accepted-minisymposia" target="_blank">http://12.usnccm.org/accepted-minisymposia</a></span></div><br><div>In addition, we are pleased to announce that the<br> following <strong>short courses</strong> will be provided at the<br> Congress:</div><div> </div><div><em>The Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods</em><br> (by Bernardo Cockburn)<br><br></div><div><em>Goal-Oriented Methods: Error Estimation, Adaptive<br> Algorithms, Multiscale Modeling </em>(by Serge<br> Prudhomme, Kris Van der Zee, and Luca Dede)<br><br></div><div><em>Theory and Practice of the Generalized/eXtended<br> Finite Element Method</em> (by Armando Duarte and<br> Angelo Simone)<br><br></div><div><em>Using Algorithmic Differentiation to Compute<br> Derivatives for Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty<br> Quantification, and Optimization</em> (by Sri Hari<br> Krishna Narayanan and Jean Utke)</div><br><div> We look forward to seeing you in Raleigh this<br> summer!</div><br><div> John Dolbow and Murthy Guddati</div><div> Congress Co-Chairs<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://12.usnccm.org" target="_blank">http://12.usnccm.org</a> <br> <br></div><br></div><br><br></div><br><br></div><br><br></div><br><br></div><br><br></body></html>