Dear Colleague:

We, the AMD IiSS Technical Committee organizers, are pleased to continue our long-standing tradition of arranging a symposium on « Instabilities in Solids and Structures » at the annual ASME-International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMEC&E).  The Congress will be held in Tampa, Florida during the period of November 3–9, 2017.  Contributions on instability in both material and structural systems are welcome.  As you are aware, this is a major mechanical engineering meeting with upwards of 2,000 international participants.  Our Technical Committee has participated with success in the Congress since 1994 and we certainly would like to keep up this tradition.

webpage: https://www.asme.org/events/imece

It is now time to solicit submission of abstracts for our sessions! Participation requires just the submission of an abstract by **July 19, 2017**. (This is a hard deadline; do not expect an extension.)

Upload your abstract at your earliest convenience;  the symposium is in the

Track « Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids » as Topic « 12-10 Instabilities in Solids and Structures »

This year, we are pleased to continue our collaboration with the ASME AMD Technical Committee on Soft Matter, to co-sponsor a special symposium on instabilities in soft matter.  If you work in this area, we encourage you to upload your abstract to the

Track « Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids » as Topic « 12-11 Instabilities in Soft Matter Solids and Structures »

Sincerely,

Ryan S. Elliott, Edmundo Corona

Kostas Danas, Dai Okumura, Lihua Jin