EMI 2010

SYMPOSIA

Olivier Coussy Memorial Symposium

at EMI 2010

August 8 - 11, 2010

Los Angeles, California

To celebrate the scientific legacy of Prof. Olivier Coussy, who tragically passed away on January 15, 2010 in Paris, France, the poromechanics committee of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, is organizing an "Olivier Coussy Memorial Symposium" as a part of the EMI 2010 Conference, August 8-11, 2010, Los Angeles. http://viterbi.usc.edu/emi2010/. Please see symposium announcement for details.

The following prominent scholars have committed to make presentation in this Symposium:

Zdenek Bazant, Northwestern University, USA
Hamlin Jennings, Northwestern University, USA
Jean H. Prévost, Princeton University, USA Hoe Ling, Columbia University, USA
Mathieu Vandamme, ENPC, France
Henri Van Damme, LCPC, France
Francesco dell'Isola, University of Rome, Italy
Jacques Huyghe, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Marcio Murad, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brazil

By this email, we invite the Poromechanics community to participate in this event and to present your research in this scientific gathering.

If you are interested in making a presentation in the Olivier Coussy Memorial Symposium, please send an abstract using the attached template, as soon as possible, and no later than May 7, 2010, to Christian Hellmich christian.hellmich@tuwien.ac.at We look forward to seeing you.

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9th Symposium on Biological and Biologically Inspired Materials

at EMI 2010

August 8 - 11, 2010

Los Angeles, California

The Properties of Materials Committee, the Poromechanics Committee and the Biomechanics Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Institute invite you to a symposium on Biological and Biologically Inspired Materials at the EMI 2010 Conference, during August 8-11, 2010 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.

Biologically inspired materials include biomaterials, composite materials based on microarchitecture or other nuances of a biological material etc. The symposium will bring together researchers working on various aspects of mechanics, micro and nanostructure, and synthesis and processing of materials inspired by biology including but not limited to the following themes:

Modeling and simulation of mechanical properties of biological materials
Materials design, synthesis and processing based on biological materials
Scale transition methods for bio-inspired or biological materials
Nano and micro scale characterization of interfaces in biological and bio-inspired materials
Experimental investigation of bio-inspired or biological materials
Poromechanical problems in bio-inspired or biological materials

Organizers:

Dr. Roberto Ballarini, University of Monnesota (broberto@umn.edu)
Dr. Markus Buehler, MIT (mbuehler@mit.edu)
Dr. Luis Dorfmann, Tufts University (luis.dorfmann@tufts.edu)
Dr. Christian Hellmich, Vienna University of Technology (christian.hellmich@tuwien.ac.at)
Dr. Dinesh Katti, North Dakota State University, (dinesh.katti@ndsu.edu)