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Technical Program Conference Symposia
2nd Symposium on Ecologically Friendly Materials
   Romildo D. Toledo Filho, Yunping Xi

4th Symposium on Biological and Biologically Inspired Materials
   Dinesh R. Katti, Christian Hellmich

Advanced Nanocomposite Systems
   Roger Bradshaw, Frank Fisher, Catherine Brinson

Advances in Engineering Mechanics Education
   Zhanping You, Hector Estrada, Larry Peel

Atmospheric Flows in Urban Environments
   Herve P. Morvan

Benchmark Structural Control Problem on Highway Bridges
   Anil K. Agrawal, Satish Nagarajaiah

Bifurcation and Instability in Geological and Granular Materials
   Marte S. Gutierrez, Kathleen Issen

Boundary Element Method Applied to Mechanics
   Euclides Mesquita

Computational Plasticity and Damage at the Micron Scale
   Marc Geers, Ron Peerlings, Akrum Abdul-Latif

Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials
   Marte S. Gutierrez, Victor N. Kaliakin

Control of Structural Systems
   Richard E. Christenson

Coupled Problems in Geomaterials (soils, rocks and concrete)
   Frederic Dufour, Yunping Xi, Tang-Tat Ng

Damage, Healing, and Self-healing in Engineering, Geological, and Biological Materials
   Ever J. Barbero

Deformation Induced Microstructures: Modeling and Simulation
   Srinivasan M. Sivakumar

Discrete and Continuum Modelling of Granular Systems
   Tang-Tat Ng, Jin Ooi

Engineering Approaches to Biological Tissues
   Roger W. Beuerman, George Z. Voyiadjis

Environmental Fluid Mechanics (co-organize with Turbulence Committee)
   Hayley H. Shen, Robert Martinuzzi, Michelle Teng

Fabric Tensors in Damage Mechanics
   Peter I. Kattan, George Z. Voyiadjis

Finite Element Techniques in Modeling Steel and Concrete Structures
   Mustafa A. Mahamid

Free Surface Flows
   Ben R. Hodges, Keh-Han Wang

Inelastic Response of Structures and Materials Subjected to Multi-hazard Extreme Loads
   Ganesh Thiagarajan, Beverly P. DiPaolo

Innovative Experimental Techniques
   Asad Esmaeily, Kolluru Subramaniam

Instabilities in Solids and Structures
   Edmundo Corona, Stelios Kyriakides

Integration of Microstructure into Modeling and Simulation of Infrastructure Materials
   Linbing Wang, Xiang Song Li

Mechanics of Soft Materials and Soft Biological Tissues
   H. Jerry Qi, Jorgen S. Bergstrom, Jeff Bischoff

Meshless Methods in Solid and Structural Mechanics
   Ertugrul Taciroglu, Jiun-Shyan Chen, Mike Puso, Hui-Ping Wang, Cheng-Tang Wu

Micromechanics/Nanomechanics
   Xi Chen, Jeffrey W. Kysar

Multi-scale Mechanics of Hierarchical Materials and Interfaces
   Anil Misra, Ching S. Chang, J. Lawrence Katz

Multiphase Granular Materials (co-organize with Granular Flow committee)
   Hayley H. Shen, Pierre-Yves Hicher, Ching Chang, Jin Ooi

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Materials
   Harold S. Park, Lucy T. Zhang, Wing Kam Liu

Multiscale Modeling of Defects in Crystals
   John D. Clayton

Nonlinear Soil-Structure Interaction and Soil Dynamics: Testing and Simulation
   A. Anandarajah, Pedro Arduino, E. Taciroglu, Z. Joey Yang, Zhaohui Yang

Nonlocal and Generalized Continua for Solids
   Richard A. Regueiro, George Z. Voyiadjis

Novel Approaches in Modeling of Heterogeneous Materials
   Iwona Jasiuk, Catalin Picu, Xin-Lin Gao, Younggang Huang, Pradeep Guduru

Novel Numerical Methodologies for Heterogeneous Media
   Robert Lipton, Yuri Antipov, Blaise Bourdin, Stephen Shipman

Particle-Scale Behavior for Granular Systems: Experiments and Model Validation
   Amy L. Rechenmacher

Performance Based Earthquake Engineering
   Ertugrul Taciroglu, John W. Wallace, Kutay Orakcal

Phase Transformations
   Valery I. Levitas, Dean L. Preston

Poromechanics
   Alexander Cheng

Recent Advances in Structured Continua
   Mehrdad Massoudi, Morteza Mehrabadi

Research Progress in Structural Stability
   Khaled W. Shahwan, Dinar Camotim, Pizhong Qiao

Sediment Transport Processes in Waterbodies
   Thanos N. Papanicolaou, Cristina Tsai

Symposium in Honor of C.O. Horgan, 2005 Eringen Medalist
   David J. Steigmann

Symposium Honoring Professor Yannis F. Dafalias on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
   Majid T. Manzari, Rajah A. Anandarajah, Victor N. Kaliakin, Xiangwu S. Li

Symposium Honoring the Career and Contributions of Prof. Dusan Krajcinovic
   Douglas J. Bammann, George Z. Voyiadjis

Symposium Honoring the Contributions of Elias Aifantis
   Douglas J. Bammann, Hussein M. Zbib, Petros Sofronis

Symposium on Geomechanics Honoring N. D. Cristescu: Damage and Fracture
   Oana Cazacu

Symposium on Geomechanics Honoring N. D. Cristescu: Non-linear  Behavior and Instabilities in Geomaterials
   Oana Cazacu

Symposium on Geosynthetics and Geosynthetic-Engineered Structures Honoring Robert M. Koerner
   Hoe I. Ling, Victor N. Kaliakin

Symposium on Mechanics of Flexible Pavements Honoring R. L. Lytton
   Eyad A. Masad, Vassilis Panoskaltsis, Linbing Wang

Vibration-Based Damage Detection and Prognosis
   Juan M. Caicedo, Jinsong Pei