U.S. National Congresses

Every four years a National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics is held in the United States at a site chosen by the U.S. National Committee. The 16^th congress will be held June 27 to July 2, 2010 at Pennsylvania State University, chaired by Judith Todd.

The 15^th congress was held June 25-30, 2006 at the University of Colorado, Boulder, chaired by Thomas Geers and Stein Sture.

List of past U.S. congresses and proceedings.

International Congresses and General Assemblies

Every four years the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) holds an international scientific congress. The next International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) will be held August 24-30, 2008 in Adelaide, Australia. Registration and other information is now available on the website: http://ictam2008.adelaide.edu.au/. The last congress was held in August 2004 in Warsaw, Poland.

The USNC/TAM sponsors a fellowship program for U.S. researchers presenting papers at the international congress. The decisions on 2008 applications will be made after ICTAM notifies authors of paper acceptances. For a list of recipients of 2004 awards, please click here.

The General Assembly meets at the congress and also once between congresses; the most recent General Assembly was August 11-14, 2006, at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Only members of the General Assembly and invited guests attend these meetings. The U.S. National Committee sends a delegation to the meeting, which then reports back to the committee and the U.S. mechanics community as a whole. Recent reports:
2006 General Assembly report (Providence, Rhode Island)
2004 General Assembly report (Warsaw, Poland)
2002 General Assembly report (Cambridge, UK)

U.S. Committee Meetings

The meetings of the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics are open by invitation only. Its most recent meeting was in April 2007 at the Keck Center of the National Academies in Washington, DC. The next meeting will be April 25-26, 2008, also at the Keck Center.

Other Meetings of Interest

Calendar of upcoming events of IUTAM and organizations linked to IUTAM

Revised 12 February 2008