XLI Summer School - APM 2013 - First Announcement

The International Summer School ´ Conference ±Advanced Problems in Mechanics
´ 2013µ is the forty first in a series of annual summer schools held by
Russian Academy of Sciences. The Conference is organized by the Institute
for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(IPME RAS) and St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University (SPbSPU) under
the patronage of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The main purpose of
the meeting is to gather specialists from different branches of mechanics to
provide a platform for cross-fertilisation of ideas. The list of problems
under investigation is not limited to questions of mechanical engineering,
but includes practically all advanced problems in mechanics, which is
reflected in the name of the conference. The main attention is given to
problems on the boundary between mechanics and other research areas, which
stimulates the investigation in such domains as micro- and nanomechanics,
material science, physics of solid states, molecular physics, astrophysics
and many others. The conference ±Advanced Problems in Mechanicsµ helps us to
maintain the existing contacts and to establish new ones between foreign and
Russian scientists.
 
Presentations devoted to fundamental aspects of mechanics or spreading the
field of applications of mechanics are invited. We are particularly keen to
receive contributions that show new effects and phenomena or develop new
mathematical models. The topics of the conference cover all fields of
mechanics including, but not restricted:
- mechanics of media with microstructure
- nanomechanics
- molecular and particle dynamics
- phase transitions
- computational mechanics
- wave motion
- nonlinear dynamics, chaos and vibrations
- dynamics of rigid bodies and multibody dynamics
- solids and structures
- fluid and gas
- mechanical and civil engineering
- applications
- aerospace mechanics 

List of accompanying events:
- Accompanying International Workshop: Recent advances in numerical
simulation of hydraulic fracture
  Chair: Gennady Mishuris (UK) Co-Chair: Alexander Linkov (Russia, Poland)
- Minisimposium: "Modelling and numerical methods in biomechanics"
  Chair: Udo Nackenhorst (Germany) Co-Chair: Leah Sharipova (Russia)
- Minisymposium "Dynamics of a Rigid Body Contacting with a Surface: Various
Aspects"
  Chair: Alexander Karapetyan (Russia) Co-chair: Alexander Kuleshov (Russia)
- Young scientist's school-conference: "Modern Ways in Mechanics"

Important Dates
Abstract submission: February 15, 2013 Submission of a visa form
(required to issue the invitation to Russia): February 15, 2013
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2013 Paper submission: March 15, 2013
Conference: July 1 - 6, 2013 

Please refer to the following website for further details about the
conference http://www.apm-conf.spb.ru We are looking forward to your
participation in our conference!