<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}</style></head><body><div><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}</style></div><div><br></div><div>Dear Colleague,<br></div><div class="moz-forward-container"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; <br>          mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US" data-mce-style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; <br>          mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The European Community<br> on Computational Method in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) invites<br> institutions from all over Europe to present proposals for the<br> organization of the 5<sup>th</sup> Young Investigators<br> Conference (YIC), to be held between April and September,<br> 2019.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; <br>          mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US" data-mce-style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; <br>          mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Previous Young<br> Investigators Conferences took place at the University of<br> Aveiro, Portugal, (2012), Bordeaux, France (2013) and in<br> Aachen, Germany (July 2015). In September 2017 the YIC takes<br> place at the Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy). Since<br> 2013 the Young Investigators Conferences are offered on a<br> two-year interval in odd years in geographically varying<br> areas. The conferences are organized and run by young<br> investigators and supported by senior scientists. The target<br> groups are PhD students in all stages of their PhD programs,<br> postdocs and young researchers, under the age of 35.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; <br>          mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US" data-mce-style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; <br>          mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In conjunction with the<br> 5<sup>th</sup> Young Investigators Conference in 2019 the<br> ECCOMAS PhD Olympiad 2019 has to be organized. For more<br> details with respect to ECCOMAS Olympiads see </span><a href="http://www.eccomas.org/spacehome/1/18" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.eccomas.org/spacehome/1/18"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://www.eccomas.org/vpage/1/18/RulesConditions</span></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: <br>          Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US" data-mce-style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: <br>          Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: <br>        justify;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: <br>        justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; <br>          mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US" data-mce-style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; <br>          mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Institutions interested in organizing YIC 2019<br> are kindly requested to submit a proposal to the ECCOMAS<br> Secretariat (</span><a href="mailto:eccomas@cimne.upc.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:eccomas@cimne.upc.edu"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>            Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; <br>            mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US" data-mce-style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>            Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; <br>            mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">eccomas@cimne.upc.edu</span></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; <br>          mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US" data-mce-style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; <br>          mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">) before <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">March 15, 2017</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New<br>          Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: <br>          Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US" data-mce-style="mso-fareast-font-fa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