<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body><br><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Subject: IACM Announcement – October 2013</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">You will find below updated information of upcoming international events organized in the frame of </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB">IACM</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Full information is posted on: <a href="http://www.iacm.info" target="_blank">www.iacm.info</a></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB">UPCOMING DEADLINE</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p><pre><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">11<sup>th</sup> World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI)</span></strong></pre><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Joint organization with: </span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">5<sup>th</sup> European Conference on Computational Methods (ECCM V) </span></em></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">6<sup>th</sup> European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI)</span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Date & Location</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">:</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Barcelona, Spain,</span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> 20 – 25 July 2014</span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-US"></span></em></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">On behalf of the <strong>WCCM-ECCM-ECFD2014 Organizing Committee</strong>, we are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract to any of the scheduled Minisymposia through the Congress website. The list of accepted Minisymposia and information about registration and abstract submission can be found at: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.wccm-eccm-ecfd2014.org/" title="http://www.wccm-eccm-ecfd2014.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.wccm-eccm-ecfd2014.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><br>Abstracts should outline the main features, results and conclusions as well as their general significance, and contain relevant references. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">The Abstract can be submitted directly in its final format, following the template available on the website. Authors will have the possibility of replacing the file by an updated version after the acceptance notification. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Deadline for submission of abstracts is: <strong>November 29, 2013</strong></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Do not hesitate to contact the Congress </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:secretariat@wccm-eccm-ecfd2014.org" title="mailto:secretariat@wccm-eccm-ecfd2014.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">secretariat</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> for any question.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Eugenio Oñate</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Xavier Oliver</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Antonio Huerta<br><strong>Co-chairmen of WCCM-ECCM-ECFD 2014</strong></span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB">ANNOUNCEMENT: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-US">COMPSAFE2014</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p><pre><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">1st International Conference on Computational Engineering and Science for Safety and Environmental Problems (COMPSAFE2014) </span></strong></pre><pre><em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"> </span></em></pre><pre><em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"> </span></em></pre><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Date & Location</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">:</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Sendai International Center in Sendai, Japan</span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">, 13 – 16 April 2014</span></em></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Description:</span></span></strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">The conference topics are computational mechanics, and computational engineering and science technologies, and their applications related to (1) safety- / risk-related, disaster-preventing topics including various types of natural hazards such as earthquake, tsunami, typhoon / hurricane / cyclone, flood, explosion of volcano, land slide, (2) any kinds of accidents and failures of engineering artifacts such as fractures, crashes, explosion, and (3) environmental and social problems such as air / water pollution, radioactive contamination, global environment problems, evacuation and so on. We hope this conference will play a role of corporate experts network in those fields and push forward the technologies in those fields. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">We cordially invite you to participate in this conference and to contribute to the session of your interest on the conference topics. Authors wishing to submit a one-page abstract are kindly advised to refer to the submission guideline at </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.compsafe2014.org/technical_papers.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.compsafe2014.org/technical_papers.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> and submit their abstracts via online by <strong>December 1, 2013</strong>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">We are looking forward to your acceptance of this invitation, and have the opportunity to meet you in Sendai.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Sincerely yours,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Kazuo Kashiyama, Co-Chair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Shinobu Yoshimura, Co-Chair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">For further information please visit: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.compsafe2014.org/" target="_blank">http://www.compsafe2014.org/</a></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB">ANNOUNCEMENT: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-US">NL14 COURSE</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB"></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p><pre><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">We are glad to announce the 2014 version of the course:</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></pre><pre><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></pre><pre><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">NONLINEAR COMPUTATIONAL SOLID & STRUCTURAL MECHANICS</span></strong></pre><pre><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Theoretical formulations, technologies and computations </span></strong></pre><pre><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></pre><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Date & Location</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">:</span></strong></p><pre><strong><em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-US">Pavia, Italy, May 5-9, 2014</span></em></strong></pre><pre><em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB"> </span></em></pre><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Teaching body</span></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">R.L.Taylor, F. Brezzi, M. Bischoff, G. Sangalli, F.Auricchio, A.Reali</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">A course flyer will be ready shortly. Information will be also soon available on the web-site at:<strong> </strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.unipv.it/compmech/courses.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.unipv.it/compmech/courses.html</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p></div></body></html>