Adelaide, Australia, August 24 - 29, 2008

Final Announcement and Call for Papers

http://ictam2008.adelaide.edu.au

Scientific Program
The scientific program will consist of plenary opening and closing lectures, sectional lectures, mini-symposia, and contributed papers presented in lecture and seminar presentation sessions. Two additional lectures will be presented by the recipients of the Batchelor Prize in Fluid Mechanics and the Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics. These prizes will be presented for the first time at ICTAM2008. Invitations to present contributed papers will be made on the recommendation of the International Papers Committee, based on their review of submitted abstracts and short papers. The text of the opening and closing lectures, sectional lectures and mini-symposia introductory lectures will be printed in the Congress Proceedings to be published by Springer. All accepted Short Papers will be published on the CD-ROM Proceedings.

Opening Lecturer
John Hutchinson (USA)
The role of mechanics in advancing thermal barrier coatings
Closing Lecturer
Jörg Imberger (Australia)
Physical limnology: the queen and the servant

In particular, you are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract to the following most interesting session!

SM15  Nanostructures and MEMS
K. S. Kim (USA)
F. de Bona (Italy)

Please see the attachment for details.