Dear colleague,
The VIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity will take place at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain on September 5 - 8, 2005 The deadline for submitting abstracts (300 words approx, free format) is February 15th., 2005. The paper to be included in the proceedings is an extended abstract (from two to four pages) and it will be required by June 10th., 2005. The currently confirmed plenary speakers are: K-J. Bathe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA R. Borja, Berkeley, USA J-L. Chenot, Sophia Antipolis, France R. de Borst, Delft, NL A. Gens, UPC, Spain P. Ladevhze, LMT Cachan, France T. Laursen, Duke University, USA W-K. Liu, Northwestern University, USA H. Mang, TU, Vienna, Austria J. Oliver, UPC, Spain M. Ortiz, Caltech, USA D. Peric, Swansea, UK E. Ramm, Stuttgart, Germany B. Schrefler, Padua, Italy E. Stein, Hannover, Germany R. L. Taylor, Berkeley, USA V. Tvergaard, Technical University of Denmark P. Wriggers, Hannover, Germany Keynote lectures will be complemented by invited sessions organized by recognised experts in targeted research areas as well as by contributed papers received from the general call for papers. COMPLAS VIII is an IACM Special Interest Conference and an ECCOMAS Thematic Conference. Please, visit our web page http://congress.cimne.upc.es/complas05 for further and updated information. Sincerely yours E. Oqate (Universitat Polithcnica de Catalunya, Spain) and D. R. J. Owen (University of Wales Swansea, UK) Conference Chairmen
