<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body><br>We are pleased to announce the forthcoming <strong>School on Computational Mechanics for Moving Boundaries and Interfaces</strong>, to be held 14-17 <strong>October 2013 in Barcelona</strong>, organized by GeM (Ecole Centrale de Nantes) and LaCaN (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).<br><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br>The school is addressed to an international audience of graduates in Engineering and Applied Sciences, with a solid background in numerical methods for partial differential equations and computational mechanics. It is mainly targeting PhD students, as well as professionals from the public or private sector, seeking an introduction or a deeper knowledge of computational mechanics for moving boundaries and interfaces, including formulation, analysis, implementation issues and applications.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The goal of the school is to give insights on recent developments in dealing with moving boundaries in both fluid and solid computational mechanics. These boundaries may be interface between fluid and solids, cracks, solidification front or more generally phase transomation fronts. </span>This summer school is innovative in several ways:</p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">It deals both with fluid and solid mechanics problem and addresses moving boundaries within a generic framework.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">It is not centered on a unique numerical method: Extended- Finite Element Method and Immersed Boundary Methods will be both considered.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">It will cover a wide range of scientific fields: fluid structure interactions, fracture, contact and phase changes.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">Wide range of “industrial” applications field will be also considered: aerospace, biomedical, geological, biophysics.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The <strong>lecturers</strong> of the school are:</span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. John Dolbow, Duke University, USA</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. Antonio Gil, University of Wales at Swansea, UK</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Patrick Massin, Lamsid laboratory, EDF R&D, France</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Prof. Nicolas Moës, Ecole Centrale de nantes, France</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Dr Géraldine Olivier (or colleague), Lemma Company, France</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. Wolfgang Wall, TU Munchen, Germany</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Dr. Yongxing Shen, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain</li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There are a number of <strong>grants covering the fees</strong>, sponsored by the European Commission through the FP7 project ATCoMe.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br>Applications submitted before August 19th will receive full consideration in the first round of the selection process.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br>Further information can be found at </span><a href="http://congress.cimne.com/school-cmmbi" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://congress.cimne.com/school-cmmbi</span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">We kindly ask you to forward this message to researchers (students or advisors), who may be interested in attending or advising this course.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Best regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Prof. Nicolas Moës</p><p class="MsoNormal">GeM, Ecole Centrale de Nantes</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ES"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>