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 Symposium presentations must be original unpublished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.