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Organization

The 15th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics will be held during 25-30 June 2006 at the University of Colorado in Boulder. These quadrennial congresses are held under the auspices of the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM), which is a member of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). The member societies of the USNC/TAM are listed below.

Congress Theme

The theme of the Congress is Mechanics in Emerging Technologies. Sessions on analytical, experimental, and computational mechanics will cover a broad array of special topics in the field.

Important Dates

15 July 2005 Announcement of mini-symposia

15 January 2006 One-page abstracts due

15 March 2006 Acceptance and declination e-mails sent

15 May 2006 Deadline for early registration

25-30 June 2006 15th USNCTAM Meeting

Co-chairs

The co-chairs of the 2006 Congress are Thomas L. Geers (geers@spot.colorado.edu) and Stein Sture (stein.sture@colorado.edu). The webmasters for the Congress are Carlos A. Felippa and Susanna Gross (sjg@cires.colorado.edu).


Local Organizing Committee The local Organizing Committee consists of the following members:		Crimaldi, John	(crimaldi@buffmail.colorado.edu )
Ferguson, Virginia	(fergusov@mail.colorado.edu)
Geers, Tom	(geers@spot.colorado.edu )
Neupauer, Roseanna	(neupauer@buffmail.colorado.edu )
Qi, Jerry	(qih@colorado.edu )
Sture, Stein	(sture@bechtel.colorado.edu)
Tan, Wei	(wtan@buffmail.colorado.edu )
Yang, Ronggui	(yangr@buffmail.colorado.edu )

Scientific Committee


Hassan AREF (Chair)	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Zdenek BAZANT	Northwestern University
David BOGY	University of California at Berkeley
Mary BOYCE	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexander CHENG	University of Mississipi at Oxford
Robert DAVIS	University of Colorado at Boulder
Gary LEAL	University of California at Santa Barbara
Sia NEMAT-NASSER	University of California at San Diego
Michael ROUKES	California Institute of Technology
Nancy SOTTOS	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fredric WAN	University of California at Irvine

Session Organizers

The organizers of the disciplinary and mini-symposium sessions are listed on this page.

Financial Sponsors

Financial support for the Congress is provided by the following sponsors:

Air Force Office of Scientific Research
National Science Foundation
University of Colorado

Member Societies

The member societies of the USNC/TAM are: Acoustical Society of America, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Mathematical Society, American Physical Society, American Society of Testing and Materials, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Experimental Mechanics, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of Engineering Science, and Society of Rheology.

Previous Congresses

The last three Congresses were held at the University of Washington in Seattle (1994), the University of Florida in Gainesville (1998), and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg (2002).