PLASTICITY 2011, The Casa Magna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa, January 3-8, 2011
FIRST CIRCULAR (Dated March 5, 2010)


 

IMPORTANT DATES

Your intent to attend and tentative title..............................................................................NOW
Hotel Reservation..................................................................................................................ASAP
Half-page Abstract.....................................................................................................June 1, 2010
Early Pre-registration............................................................................................August 1, 2010
Typing Instructions sent to Participants................................................Already on the website
Three page Compact Paper Due.......................................................................October 15, 2010
Required Payment of Registration Fee...........................................................November 1, 2010


PLASTICITY 2010, will take place at The CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa, January  3-8, 2011. This Symposium series is the prime forum for plasticity research dissemination as usually 300-400 scientists from around the world participate in this conference. The symposium will focus on multi-scale computational plasticity, plasticity of emerging materials (nano-crystalline solids, thin films, biomaterials, polymers etc.) and micro mechanics of plastic deformation and texture evolution, including materials science aspects, metal forming, and elastic-plastic damage mechanics. However, presentations in any area of plasticity will be welcomed, especially experimental and materials science studies related to plastic deformation. Thus topics of interest include plastic and visco-plastic behaviors of single crystals and polycrystalline metals, nano-crystalline metals, thin films, biomaterials, ceramics, ice, rocks and soils, composite materials and polymers, as well as plasticity aspects of damage, failure and fracture mechanics.  Symposium presentations must be original unpublished research related to experimental, numerical or theoretical analyses of the inelastic behavior of solids subjected to quasi-static, dynamic or cyclic thermo-mechanical loading.

A three-page summary/compact paper will be printed in a CD Proceedings and available at the symposium for quick dissemination of your research. The optional full-length papers are published in the International Journal of Plasticity after the standard peer review process and acceptance, for archival reference. The journal has the highest impact factor among all solid mechanics journals in 2002- 2009. Please see the internet for the journal details at:

www.elsevier.com/locate/ijplas/

The full-length papers should be submitted for publication consideration anytime from six months before to six months after the symposium. We expect this symposium to be as outstanding, both technically and socially, as its predecessors, including the one in Whistler (July 2000), Aruba (Jan. 2002), Quebec City (July 2003), Kauai (January 2005), Halifax (July 2006) Alyeska Resort south of Anchorage (June 2007), Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort (January, 2008) , St. Thomas Frenchman's Reef and Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort (January 2009), and St. Kitts Marriott Resort (January 2010).


 

THE LOCATION AND HOTEL

PLASTICITY 2011, will take place at The CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa, January  3-8, 2011, with its own excellent private beach. See details at:

 

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/pvrmx-casamagna-marriott-puerto-vallarta-resort-and-spa/

 

The resort has its own private beach. The temp. is expected to be 75-80 F.  Puerto-Vallarta is on the west coast of Mexico. There are direct flights from several European countries to Mexico City and then a short connecting flight to Puerto Vallarta; participants from Japan & S. Korea may connect via Los Angeles, San Francisco or Chicago directly to Puerto Vallarta.  A block of rooms has been set aside at a very special rate (single or double $ 120 for resort view, $145 for ocean view and $ 165 for ocean front rooms per night; this rate includes breakfast on conference days.  All  of 16% sales tax (VAT) is waived if conference participants provide a copy of their passport information and visa pages at check-in. Thus only 2% local tax is to be paid. The regular rate for this resort is more than triple of the symposium rate. More information will be provided for reservation after we receive your acceptance.

 

PRESENTATIONS AND REGISTRATION FEE

The presentations will include key-note invited lectures and invited presentations in each of four parallel sessions. The invited key-note lecture of 40 minutes duration is expected to give an overview of the subject with almost 20 minutes being devoted to the results of other researchers. Invited presentations will be allotted 20 minutes. All presentations, including invited lectures, must contain a significant amount of unpublished results. A session of two hours will normally include one lecture and four invited talks. Computer projectors will be available for your presentation.

A registration form for registration fees is on the website

http://www.internationalplasticity.com/

 

Please send a line indicating your interest as soon as possible, preferably by return e-mail to khan@umbc.edu and symposium@internationalplasticity.com.

 

Kindly follow the deadlines given at the top.