Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:07:24 +0100 (MET)
From: "Alexander V. Padiy" <padiy@sci.kun.nl>
Subject: IMMB'98

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

Conference on
Iterative solution methods for the elasticity
equations as arising in mechanics and biomechanics 
IMMB'98
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
September 28-30, 1998

SCOPE:
 Recently there has been much progress reported on iterative solution
 methods for the solution of the algebraic systems which arise in finite
 element methods in structural engineering, geomechanics and biomechanics.
 The purpose of the conference is to report on recent progress and to enable 
 people from both the theoretical side and the practical, application side
 to meet and exchange their views on the topic.

THE PRIMARY TOPICS OF THE MEETING ARE:
 - Preconditioned conjugate gradient methods
 - Incomplete factorization methods, ordering strategies
 - Inner-outer iteration methods
 - Subspace iteration methods
 - Aggregation techniques
 - Superelement-by-element preconditioners
 - Algebraic multilevel methods
 - Multilevel domain decomposition methods
 - Locking phenomena
    - nearly incompressible materials
    - thin structures, limit cases (membrane state, bending state)
 - Conforming and non-conforming methods
 - Mixed variable methods
 - Reduced integration methods
 - Iteration methods for hybrid problems
 - Nonlinear materials and elasto-plastic problems
    - Incremental approaches
    - Newton-type methods
 - Finite element software packages, implementation aspects
 - Parallelization aspects 

INVITED SPEAKERS:
 It is planned to invite several of the most active researchers in
 the field. See further announcements for more details.

LANGUAGE AND PROCEEDINGS:
 The working language will be English.
 The proceedings will contain the extended abstracts (up to 4 pages).
 The extended abstracts have to be submitted to immb98@sci.kun.nl.
 LaTeX2e format is preferred.

DEADLINES:
 Deadline for submission of the extended abstracts : April 15, 1998
 Referee reports and notification of acceptance    : May   15, 1998

REGISTRATION FEES:
 Early registration (before May 15, 1998)          : 225 NLG
 Late  registration (after  May 15, 1998)          : 350 NLG

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
 O. Axelsson or J. Padiy
 University of Nijmegen
 Department of Mathematics
 Toernooiveld 1
 NL-6525 ED Nijmegen

 E-mail: immb98@sci.kun.nl
 Fax   : +31 (0)24 3652140