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Symposia and Summer Schools

The aim of an IUTAM Symposium is to assemble a select group of active scientists within a well-defined field for the development of science in that field.
How it works

Every two years a call is launched on the IUTAM website inviting submissions of proposals for IUTAM Symposia and Summer Schools in both fluid and solid mechanics. Prospective organisers are asked to submit a proposal online, after consultations with an appropriate Adhering or Affiliated Organisation. The organizers can request funding from IUTAM, currently up to $5000, which can be used freely toward the organisation of the Symposium, especially to support younger researchers.

Every two years a call is launched on the IUTAM website for submitting proposals for IUTAM Symposia and Summer Schools in both fluid and solid mechanics. Prospective organisers are asked to submit a proposal online, after consultations with an appropriate Adhering or Affiliated Organisation. The organisers can request funding from IUTAM, currently up to $5000, which can be used freely toward the organisation of the Symposium, especially to support younger researchers.

Get involved

The IUTAM Symposia are reserved for invited participants. Those wishing to participate in an IUTAM Symposium are therefore advised to contact the Chair of the Scientific Committee in due time in advance of the meeting.

If the organisers of a Symposium decide to publish proceedings, the currently recommended form of publication is the IUTAM Bookseries by Springer. From 2011 to 2017, the preferred publication platform for the proceedings of IUTAM Symposia was Procedia IUTAM by Elsevier. All papers included in the proceedings must be subjected to review to ensure their high quality.

The IUTAM Symposia Panels

In 1977 the IUTAM Bureau set up two panels charged with the duty of assessing proposals made for IUTAM Symposia in the fields of fluid and solid mechanics. In 1992 that duty was extended to include scanning of proposals for IUTAM Summer Schools. The following members of the fluids panel and the solids panel have been elected for the period 2022 – 2024.

IUTAM Symposia Panel for Fluid Mechanics

Prof. Detlef Lohse

Chairperson

University of Twente
Department of Science and Technology
Enschede
The Netherlands

Prof. Meheboob Alam

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Jakkur PO
Bangalore
India

Prof. Elisabeth Guazzelli

Université de Paris, CNRS
Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes
Paris
France

Prof. Ellen Longmire

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
USA

Prof. Hua Liu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
China

IUTAM Symposia Panel for Solid Mechanics

Prof. Huajian Gao

Chairperson

Nanyang Technological University College of Engineering Singapore

Prof. Leslie Banks-Sills

Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv
Israel

Prof. Alexander Belyaev

Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering
St Petersburg
Russia

Prof. Davide Bigoni

University of Trento
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Meccanica
Trento
Italy

Prof. Huiling Duan

Peking University
College of Engineering
Beijing
China

Symposia and Summer Schools

The aim of any symposium sponsored by IUTAM is to assemble a group of active scientists within a well-defined field to advance the science within that field.

In order to achieve an effective communication within this group it is necessary to limit the number of active participants sufficiently. To this end, all IUTAM Symposia are reserved for invited participants. Those wishing to participate in an IUTAM Symposium are therefore advised to contact the Chairperson of the Scientific Committee in due time in advance of the meeting.

Invitations to participate, made by the Scientific Committee (see below), should be made only on the basis of scientific merit.

The Format

Submissions are now open

The Deadline for submission of online proposals is 15 April 2024. Please submit completed form to Secretary-General Robert McMeeking rmcm@engineering.ucsb.edu.