Symposium on "Dynamic Failure" and "Thin Film Mechanics"

动态失效与薄膜力学研讨会加州理工学院要求资助将于2003年1月16日至18日举行的“动态失效”与“薄膜力学”研讨会。本次研讨会将评估这些领域最先进的研究问题及其对工程应用的影响。研讨会将有25位受邀演讲者参加，他们是力学、材料科学和工程、数学、应用物理、生物工程和地质力学领域的老牌和新兴领导者，并将包括来自学术界、产业界和研究实验室的少数族裔和女性。演讲将分5-6次进行，不平行进行，以促进参与者的近距离互动。会议将在小组讨论中达到高潮，总结该领域的最新进展并确定研究机会。报告和讨论摘要将被收录在《固体力学和物理杂志》(JMPS)的装订卷中。JMPS的编辑还在杂志上分配了375页作为这次研讨会的材料。

Symposium on dynamic failure and thin-film mechanicsThe California Institute of Technology requests funding for a symposiumon "Dynamic Failure" and "Thin Film Mechanics," to be held January16th-18th, 2003. This symposium will assess the state-of-the-art inresearch issues in these fields and their impact on engineeringapplications. The symposium will feature 25 invited speakers who areestablished and emerging leaders in Mechanics, Materials Science andEngineering, Mathematics, Applied Physics, Bioengineering, andGeomechanics and will include minorities and women from academia,industry and research laboratories. Presentations will occur in 5-6sessions, none in parallel, to facilitate close interaction ofparticipants. The meeting will culminate in a panel discussion tosummarize the state-of-the-art in the field and identify researchopportunities. The presentations and discussion summaries will becollected in a bound volume of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physicsof Solids (JMPS). JMPS editors have also allocated 375 pages in thejournal for material from this symposium.