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• [481] Recent Advances in the Theory and application of surface and edge waves

  Date:	11 June 2007 - 14 June 2007
  Location:	Keele University, UK
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Y. Fu School of Computing and Mathematics Keele University Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK Phone: +44 01782 583650; Fax: +44 01782 584268 E-mail: y.fu@keele.ac.uk Co-Chairperson: Prof. julius Kaplunov, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University, UK Euromech contact person: Prof. D. Abrahams Website
  Information:	Surface and edge wave study is one of the most exciting research directions in linear and nonlinear elasticity: while it is an interesting mathematical subject on its own, it also has important applications ranging from non-destructive evaluation, seismology to signal processing. The previous EUROMECH (no. 226) devoted to acoustic surface waves was held almost twenty years ago in 1987 (organized by Professors D.F. Parker and G.A. Maugin), and since then many theoretical and technological advances have been made. It is hoped that this Euromech will again bring together researchers from different background in order to review recent developments and to identify new directions of research. This will also be the first conference in which surface and edge waves are given equal prominence. Topics to be discussed include, but not restricted to: * Fundamental theories of surface wave propagation in elastic, piezoelectric or magnetoelastic media, linear and nonlinear aspects, effects of prestress etc. * Fundamental theories of edge wave propagation in plates and shells, including the phenomenon of edge resonance and related topics. * Applications in defects detection, non-destructive evaluation, signal processing, and material and prestress characterization. * Novel interpretations and applications of the Stroh formulism.

• [482] Efficient Methods for Robust Design and Optimization

  Date:	10 September 2007 - 12 September 2007
  Location:	Queen Mary, London University,UK
  Contact:	Chairperson: Dr. Fabian Duddeck Quen Mary College London University, Dept. of Engineering Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Phone: +44 20 78823749; Fax: +44 20 89831007 E-mail: f.duddeck@qmul.ac.uk Co-Chairperson: Euromech contact person: Prof. D. Abrahams Webpage
  Information:	In the recent years, optimization has been well established in the industry for very complex and multi-disciplinary problems. Thus the design becomes more and more sensitive to small changes in some parameters. To guarantee the quality of the optimization results, it is therefore necessary to perform either a robustness analysis including sensitivity studies at the end of the optimization or to include robustness criteria into the optimization procedure. For this, detailed qualitative and quantitative knowledge on uncertainties and on noise is required. Often special approaches to handle the data flow have to be integrated into the product development processes. Upper and lower bounds should be estimated. Corresponding computation is highly demanding, particular effective methods have to be implemented and tested in an industrial context. The aim of the colloquium is to bring together the people from the related fields to initiate collaborations on academic and industrial levels. Contributions may cover topics like uncertainty quantification, global and local sensitivity analysis, optimization under uncertainty, optimization of noisy problems, data management for robust design, and robust design methods for large-scale industrial applications.

• [483] Geometrically Non-Linear Vibrations of Structures

  Date:	9 July 2007 - 11 July 2007
  Location:	University of Porto, Portugal
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. P.L. Ribeiro IDMEC/DEMEGI Faculdade de Engenharia Universidade do Porto Rua Doutor Roberto Frias 4200-465 Porto, Portugal Phone: +351 22 508 1713; Fax: +351 22 508 1445 E-mail: pmleal@fe.up.pt Co-Chairperson: Prof. Marco Amabili, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Universitá di Parma, Italy Euromech contact person: Prof. J. Ambrosio Website

• [485] Durability of Composite Materials

  Date:	CANCELLED
  Location:	Hotel Santa Luzia, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Antonio Torres Marques Departamento de Engenharia Mecanica e Gestao Industrial Faculdade de Engenharia de Universidade do Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias 4200-465 Porto, Portugal E-mail: marques@fe.up.pt Co-chairperson: Prof. Albert Cardon Euromech contact person: Prof. Jorge Ambrosio

• [488] The Influence of Fluid Dynamics on the Behaviour and Distribution of Plankton

  Date:	13 June 2007 - 15 June 2007
  Location:	Liverpool, UK
  Contact:	Chairperson: Dr. David Lewis Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Liverpool Mathematical Sciences Building Liverpool, L69 7ZL, UK Phone: +44 0151 794 4014; Fax: +44 0151 794 4061 E-mail: d.m.lewis@liv.ac.uk Co-Chairperson: Dr. Rachel Bearon Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Liverpool Mathematical Sciences Building Liverpool, L69 7ZL, UK Euromech contact person: Prof. T. Pedley Website
  Information:	Aquatic micro-organisms have evolved a bewildering variety of adaptations and exhibit a wealth of strategies for survival in the marine environment. In this colloquium we focus on how the micro-organisms are impacted by the fluid dynamical regime governing their surroundings. Specifically we encourage presentations that investigate how fluid dynamics affects the behaviour (swimming, feeding and hydrodynamic signalling on small scales), population growth (resource competition on intermediate scales) and spatial distribution (aggregations and patchiness over a range of scales) of the Plankton (in its broadest sense from bacteria to fish larvae). Synergistic interactions between modellers and experimentalists are anticipated.

• [489] Porous Media:Modelling of Multiphase Materials

  Date:	19 September 2007 - 21 September 2007
  Location:	Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Ragnar Larsson Dept of Applied Mechanics/ Div. of material and computational mechanics Chalmers University of Technology S-412 96 Gothenburg Sweden Ph:+46-31-7725267 Fax:+46-31-7723827 E-mail: ragnar@chalmers.se Co-Chairperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Diebels Universitaet des Saarlandes Lehrstuhl fuer Technische Mechanik Postfach 15 11 50 D-66041 Saarbruecken Germany Euromech contact person: Prof. H. Myhre Jensen Website
  Information:	The colloquium is intended to present active research in this important field to allow discussion about problems of current interest to the community and to foster future cooperations. Hence, the colloquium will be specialised in content, small in size and of informal character. We envision a number of participants between 40 and 60. We also emphasize the informal style of the colloquium to provide a platform for unfinished work and discussion of open problems.

• [490] Dynamics and Stability of Thin Liquid Films and Slender Jets

  Date:	19 September 2007 - 21 September 2007
  Location:	Imperial College, London, UK
  Contact:	Chairperson: Dr. Omar K. Matar Department of Chemical Engineering Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ, UK Ph:+44-0207-594 5571 Fax:+44-0207-594 5629 E-mail: o.matar@imperial.ac.uk Co-Chairpersons: Richard V. Craster (Imperial College London) Andreas Münch (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin) Thomas P. Witelski (Oxford University) Euromech contact person: Prof. D. Abrahams Website
  Information:	Thin liquid films and slender jets or threads are of central importance to numerous industrial, biomedical and daily-life applications and their dynamics have received considerable attention in the literature. The last few years have witnessed a great deal of activity and the aim of this colloquium is to examine the latest developments in this exciting area with a particular focus on flow instabilities, complex dynamics and pattern formation. Areas of particular interest will include films (single and multi-layers) driven by capillarity, Marangoni stresses (due to thermo- and soluto-capillarity), gravitation and centrifugal forces, electric fields, intermolecular forces, as well as single or compound jets undergoing breakup and satellite formation, in the presence of thermal gradients, surface active additives and electric fields. Situations where the films and jets are made from a complex material exhibiting highly non-Newtonian rheology will also be of interest. Both modelling and experimental contributions are welcome.

• [491] Vortex Dynamics from Quantum to Geophysical Scales

  Date:	11 September 2007 - 14 September 2007
  Location:	University of Exeter, UK
  Contact:	Chairperson: Dr. Andrew D. Gilbert, Mathematics Research Institute, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, U.K. Ph: +44-(0)1392-263981 Fax:+44-(0)1392-263997 E-mail: A.D.Gilbert@exeter.ac.uk Co-Chairpersons: Dr. Konrad Bajer, Institute of Geophysics, Warsaw University, Poland. Prof. Carlo F. Barenghi, School of Mathematics, University of Newcastle, U.K Euromech contact person: Prof. P. Huerre Website
  Information:	Vortex dynamics is a fundamental topic for theory, applications and numerical simulation of fluid flows. Vortices are dominant features in many flows: for example, wakes of aircraft, turbulent fine scales, hurricanes and ocean eddies. More recently vortices have been studied in superfluids such as liquid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates at extremely low temperatures. Recent work has linked quantum vortices to vortices in classical inviscid Euler fluids. The aim of the colloquium is to bring together researchers with interests in vortex dynamics (classical and quantum) and related topics such as mixing and geophysical fluid dynamics.

• [492] Shear-banding phenomena in entangled systems

  Date:	3 September 2007 - 5 September 2007
  Location:	University College London, London, UK
  Contact:	Chairperson: Dr. Helen J. Wilson, Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Ph: +44 20 7679 1302 Fax:+44 20 7383 5519 E-mail: helen.wilson@ucl.ac.uk Co-Chairperson: Dr. M. P. Lettinga Research Centre Juelich, Institute of Solid State Physics Soft Condensed Matter, 52425 Juelich, Germany Ph: +49 2461 61 4515 Fax: +49 2461 61 2280 E-mail: p.lettinga@fz-juelich.de Euromech contact person: Prof. D. Lohse Website
  Information:	Many entangled systems, including micelle solutions and living polymers, commonly show flow instabilities and flow-induced transitions that result in spatially heterogeneous, shear banded states. The study of such fluids has mushroomed in recent years, and this meeting will provide an opportunity for the European shear-banding community to push the field forward. Current issues in the study of these fluids may benefit from a wide discussion spanning theory, experiments and simulation. Our goal is to clarify all the different features currently observed in shear-banding systems, improve understanding of the microstructural processes at work and identify the future work needed. Topics for discussion will include: * Diffusive processes close to shear-band interfaces * Gradients in alignment vs. in concentration * Fluctuations and instabilities within shear flows * The influence of wall effects * How can we improve experiments and constitutive models?

• [493] Interface Dynamics, Stability and Fragmentation

  Date:	29 August 2007 - 31 August 2007
  Location:	Grenoble, France
  Contact:	Chairperson: Prof. Emmanuel Villermaux, Université de Provence, IRPHE, 49, rue Frédéric-Joliot Curie 13384 Marseille Cedex, France Ph: +33 4 96 13 97 42 Fax:+33 4 96 13 97 09 E-mail: villerma@irphe.univ-mrs.fr Co-Chairpersons: Prof. J.Hinch and E.J. Hopfinger Euromech contact person: Prof. P. Huerre Website
  Information:	Synopsis: Interfacial instabilities, breakup and fragmentation are ubiquitous in nature and industry. Examples abound in agricultural sewage, Diesel engines and liquid propellant combustion, spume formation over the ocean, volcanic eruptions and tephra, spayed paint and cosmetics, ink jet printers, microfluidic and novel devices. The emphasis will be mainly on non-miscible, liquid-liquid or liquid-gas interfacial phenomena with surface tension. The topics to be covered range from stability analysis of inviscid, viscous and non-newtonian fluids, large deformations, self-similar shapes, singularities, to the statistical properties of the fragments sizes, considered from experiments, theory and numerics.