GDR MePhy

MOSS 2017

Due to several requests to expand the deadline for submission of abstracts for the 7th Symposium on the Mechanics of Slender Structures (MoSS2017), the Organizing Committee have decided to extend the deadline to the 17th of July.

The conference dates are 14 – 15 December 2017 and the event will be held at Palacio de Congresos de Mérida, Mérida, Extremadura, Spain.

This conference forms a continuation of a successful meeting series on the mechanics of systems employing slender structural elements. The first meeting was held in Northampton, U.K., in 2006 (website http://www.eng.nene.ac.uk/~conf2006/Symposium.htm ), followed by the event hosted in Baltimore, USA., in 2008 (website http://www.eng.nene.ac.uk/~moss2008/index.html ), in San Sebastian, Spain (website: http://www.mondragon.edu/MoSS2010/) in Harbin, China, in 2013 (http://cndr.hit.edu.cn/MoSS2012), in Northampton, UK, in 2015 (http://www.eng.nene.ac.uk/~moss2015/index.html) and in Shanghai, China, in 2016.

Abstracts of up to 300 words are invited in electronic format and should be submitted as an MS Word file via e-mail to the Symposium Office.

The key conference dates are as follows:

Deadline for submission of abstracts   17th of July 2017
Authors notified of acceptance of abstracts   30th of July 2017
Submission of extended abstract    29th of September 2017
Authors notified of acceptance of extended abstracts  31st of October 2017
Conference dates   14-15 of December 2017

For further information about the conference, please visit: http://www.eweb.unex.es/eweb/moss2017/?Home|MOSS_2017

We look forward to hear from you.

Best regards

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

Chairman
Ignacio Herrera Navarro
Professor of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Engineering Professor of Applied Mechanics
Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Energética y de los Materiales
Universidad de Extremadura
Avda. de Elvas s/n
06006 Badajoz – Spain
E-mail:iherrera@unex.es
Symposium Secretariat

David Polo González
Ingelev research group
Universidad de Extremadura
Avda. de Elvas s/n
06006 Badajoz – Spain
E-mail: dapologon@unex.es

Dear Colleague,

We are organizing a small informal workshop at the ENS in Paris, at the end of October, on the yielding transition of amorphous materials. Please check the following website for more details:
https://sites.google.com/site/yieldingworkshop/

The workshop will consist in six review talks (1h each), with a lot of time devoted to informal discussions. We thus expect fruitful exchanges on the topics related to the yielding phenomena.

Hoping to see you on this occasion in Paris,
Best regards,

Elisabeth Agoritsas and Francesco Zamponi