Abstract Submission One-page abstracts are to be submitted by 19th December 2014 via the online facility available on the conference website. Abstracts should explain clearly the main objectives and achievements of the proposed contribution and be sufficiently informative. Authors will be provided with feedback and instructions for the preparation of the 4-pages extended abstract. Authors will receive notification of acceptance of the extended abstracts by 13th February 2015. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be given to participants during the conference. Keynote speakers Luca Formaggia is Professor of Numerical Analysis at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His main research interests are: Numerical methods for PDEs; Engineering applications of numerical analysis; Flow in porous media Mesh adaptation for finite elements; Numerical modelling of the cardiovascular system. Rainald Löhner is the head of the CFD center at the College of Sciences of George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, Washington, D.C. His areas of interest include numerical methods, solvers, grid generation, parallel computing, visualization, pre-processing, fluid-structure interaction and shape optimization. Jaime Peraire is the H.N. Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His areas of interest are computational aerodynamics as well as computational mechanics and optimization. Jörg Schröder is a Professor of Mechanics and Vice-Rector for Research, Junior Academic Staff and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His areas of research interest are computational mechanics, continuum mechanics and constitutive modelling characterisation. Conference schedule 8 April 2015 Afternoon: Evening : 9 April 2015 Morning: Afternoon: Evening: 4th ACME School Early Registration and Welcome reception Registration and Opening ceremony Keynote lecture and Technical sessions Keynote lecture and Technical sessions Conference dinner 23rd Conference on Computational Mechanics and 4th ACME School http://www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering/research/acme2015 @ACME2015 #ACME2015 10 April 2015 Keynote lecture and Technical sessions Morning: Afternoon: Keynote lecture, Technical sessions and Closing ceremony Important dates 19 30 13 20 27 7 Dec 2014 Jan 2015 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 Mar 2015 Deadline for one-page abstract submission Deadline for Extended abstract submission Notification of extended abstract acceptance Preliminary Conference programme Deadline for early bird registration Final Conference Programme issued Swansea, April 8-10, 2015 Registration 4th ACME School £40 (Free for conference delegates) ACME Conference Early bird registration (before 27 Feb 2015) Delegates £340 Students £250 Late registration Delegates £370 Students £270 £170 Day delegate £120 Accompanying person The registration fee includes attendance to all the technical sessions, a conference pack with the proceedings, morning tea/coffee, lunch and afternoon tea/coffee both on Thursday 9th April and Friday 10th April and free attendance to the welcome reception (8th April) and the conference dinner (9th April). The conference fee also includes free attendance to the 4th ACME School (8th April). 4th ACME School Conference Scope and Themes The 4th ACME School will be held at the College of Engineering, Swansea University from 2pm to 5pm on 8th April 2015. The title of the School is Low or high-order: This is the question! (To p or not to p) and the speakers are: The Conference will focus on recent developments in the field of Computational Mechanics through a combination of keynote lectures and parallel sessions. Researchers from closely related areas such as Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics are encourage to participate in this conference. Papers are solicited under specific subthemes including, but not limited to, the following: Antonio J. Gil Paul Ledger Kenneth Morgan Rubén Sevilla 23rd ACME conference The 23rd ACME Conference will be held at the College of Engineering, Swansea University from 9th to 10th April 2015. The purpose of this conference is to share state-of-the-art research findings and experience across the full range of Computational Mechanics. The conference organising committee is particularly keen to encourage the participation of young researchers, including PhD students and research assistants. Conference prizes At every ACME conference a number of prizes are awarded to young researchers presenting their work at the conference. These include: The Mike Crisfield prize The best post-doctoral research paper The best postgraduate research paper The best PhD thesis Conference venue The Conference will be held at the Swansea University Singleton Park Campus, overlooking Swansea Bay beach in south-west Wales. Technical sessions will be held in the Faraday Building. Social events will be in the Digital Technium and Fulton House, all within a two minute walk. Exhibition areas are available in both the Faraday Building and the Digital Technium. ,Artificial Intelligence ,Boundary Elements ,Computational Plasticity ,Damage Mechanics ,Domain Decomposition ,Discrete Element Method ,Finite Deformation Mechanics ,Finite Volumes ,Fluid-Structure Interaction ,Geomechanics ,Instability Analysis ,Material Modelling ,Meshless Methods ,Multiphysics ,Optimisation ,PDE & SPDE Solutions ,Solid Mechanics ,Structural Dynamics ,Thermodynamics ,Wave Propagation ,Biomechanics ,Composites ,Contact Mechanics ,Data Mining ,Discontinuous Galerkin ,Error Analysis & Adaptivity ,Finite Elements ,Fluid Mechanics ,Fracture & Failure Mechanics ,GPU & HPC ,Large Scale Linear Algebra ,Meshing Techniques ,Multiscale Bridging ,Optics and photonics ,Particle-based Methods ,Phase Field Mechanics ,Structural Control ,Turbulence Simulation ,Validation & Verification Contact Committees Conference chairmen ,Antonio J. Gil ,Rubén Sevilla Local Scientific Committee ,Sondipon Adhikari ,Wulf Dettmer ,Yuntian Feng ,Oubay Hassan ,Chenfeng Li ,Roger Owen ,Johann Sienz ,Javier Bonet ,Marco Ellero ,Michael Friswell ,Paul Ledger ,Kenneth Morgan ,Djordje Peric´ ,Eduardo de Souza Organising Committee ,Javier Bonet ,Oubay Hassan ,Chun Hean Lee ,Perumal Nithiarasu ,Sean Walton ,Ben Evans ,Jason Jones ,Kenneth Morgan ,Roger Owen ,Clare Wood ACME Advisory Committee ,Ferri Aliabadi (Imperial) ,Charles Augard (Durham) ,Javier Bonet (Swansea) ,Alojz Ivankovic (Dublin) ,Tony Jefferson (Cardiff) ,Omar Laghrouche (Heriot Watt) ,Roger Owen (Swansea) ,Mohamed Rouainia (Newcastle) ,Barrie Topping (Civil-Comp. Ltd.) ,Harm Askes (Sheffield) ,Nenad Bicanic (Glasgow) ,James Campbell (Cranfield) ,Akbar Javadi (Exeter) ,Ashraf Osman (Durham) ,Roland Lewis (Swansea) ,Chris Pearce (Glasgow) ,Carlos Sansour (Nottingham) ,Paul Tucker (Cambridge) ,Antonis Zervos (Southampton) Conference website http://www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering/research/acme2015 ACME-UK 2015 Secretariat Dr Sean Walton Dr Chun Hean Lee Swansea University College of Engineering Swansea, SA2 8PP Wales, UK E-mail: acme2015@swansea.ac.uk @ACME2015 #ACME2015 Supporting organisations ,College of Engineering, Swansea University ,Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering For information regarding sponsorship opportunities contact Dr Clare Wood E-mail: c.wood@swansea.ac.uk