Scientific Programme

• mechanics of generalized continua (polar and micromorphic continua, mixtures, porous media, electromagnetic continua, grains, powders etc)
• solids and structures
• phase transitions
• nanostructures and thin films
• wave motion
• nonlinear dynamics, chaos and vibration
• dynamics of rigid bodies and multibody dynamics
• fluid and gas
• computational mechanics
• mechanical and civil engineering applications

Four different forms of presentations are offered, namely, plenary lectures (1 hour), presentations at minisymposia (30 minutes), short communications (20 minutes), and posters.

The working language is English.

For the attention of russian participants: the Russian language as an exception can be used only in posters, but even in this case English is strongly recommended. Regrettably we can not provide simultaneous translation, and due to the international nature of the conference all the oral presentations must be in English.

Minisymposia and Organizers

• MS1 Instabilities, Waves, and Phase Transitions in Nonlinear Elasticity ( R.W. Ogden, A.B. Freidin, and Y. Fu)
• MS2 Nonlinear Dynamics of Engineering Systems ( E.E. Pavlovskaia, M. Wiercigroch)
• MS3 Nonlinear Strain Waves in Complex Deformable Solids ( G.A. Maugin, A.V. Porubov, A.M. Samsonov)
• MS4 Problems in the Mechanics of Granular Materials and Systems (D. Harris)
• MS5 Recent Advances in Random Vibrations ( D. Iourtchenko)
• MS6 Vibrational Mechanics and Synchronization (I.I. Blekhman)
• MS7 Wave Mechanics of Civil Engineering Structures (J. Blaauwendraad, A.V. Metrikine)
• MS8 Stability and its applications in the dynamics of rigid bodies (A.P. Markeev, A.V. Karapetyan, D.V. Zenkov)

Speakers include:

• Prof. E.L. Aero (St.Petersburg, Russia)
• Prof. H. Aref (Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Acad. V.V. Beletsky (Moscow, Russia)
• Prof. I.I. Blekhman (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Acad. H. Cabannes (Paris, France)
• Prof. G. Capriz - to be confirmed (Pisa, Italy)
• Acad. V.M. Fomin (Novosibirsk, Russia)
• Prof. Y. Fu (Keele, UK)
• Acad. I.G. Goryacheva (Moscow, Russia)
• Prof. J. Grue (Oslo, Norway)
• Dr. D. Harris (Manchester, UK)
• Prof. G. Herrmann, Stanford University, USA
• Prof. D.A. Indeitsev (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Prof. A.V. Karapetyan (Moscow, Russia)
• Prof. I.A. Kunin (University of Houston, USA)
• Prof. E.V. Lomakin (Moscow, Russia)
• Prof. A.P. Markeev (Moscow, Russia)
• Prof. G.A. Maugin (Paris, France)
• Prof. V.V. Meleshko (Kiev, Ukraine)
• Acad. N.F. Morozov (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Prof. R.W. Ogden (Glasgow, UK)
• Prof. V.A. Palmov (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Prof. F. Pastrone (Torino, Italy)
• Prof. M. Wiercigroch (Aberdeen, UK)
• Prof. P.A. Zhilin (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Poster preparation

The size of the poster should not exceed 1m x 1m.