GENERAL INFORMATION

The twelfth conference in this series will be held at The Inn at Virginia Tech on the Virginia Tech campus on June 1-5, 2008. The scope of the conference includes:

• Multibody dynamics: rigid and flexible multibody system dynamics, impact and contact mechanics, solution of DAE, vehicle and tire modeling, railroad vehicle dynamics, biomechanics application, computer algorithms,
• MEMS,
• Dynamics of composite structures,
• Adaptive structures,
• Fluid/structure interactions,
• Nonsmooth dynamics,
• Multi-scale dynamics,
• Parametric vibrations: single- and multi-frequency excitations of single- and multi-degree-of-freedom systems,
• Computational techniques: efficient algorithms, use of symbolic manipulators, integration of symbolic manipulation and numerical methods, and use of parallel processors,
• Experimental methods: benchmark experiments, measurements in hostile environments, and instrumentation techniques,
• Influence of nonlinearities on control systems, and
• Identification of nonlinear systems.

Authors will have the option of having their full-length papers considered for publication in NONLINEAR DYNAMICS or THE JOURNAL OF VIBRATION AND CONTROL. To accelerate the reviewing process, we will select referees from those who will attend the conference and mail the manuscripts to them before the meeting.

DEADLINES:

The deadline for two-page abstracts is February 15, 2008.
The deadline for full-length papers (optional, see above) is April 15, 2008.
The deadline for early registration is April 30, 2008.
The deadline for hotel reservations under the room block is April 30, 2008.
The deadline for conference registration is May 16, 2008.
The deadline for registration cancellations is 5PM May 23, 2008.

REGISTRATION:

The standard registration fee to attend is $400 per person ($200 for each non-VT student accompanied by his/her professor). Virginia Tech faculty registration fee to attend is $275 per person. Virginia Tech student registration fee is $200 and they do not need to be accompanied by their professor.

The registration fee includes conference proceedings, a reception and dinner on Sunday, coffee breaks, lunch Monday through Thursday, and a banquet on Tuesday evening. Extra banquet tickets are available for $35 per person per banquet.

Register On-line

LODGING:

A block of lodging rooms is being held at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center (www.TheInnAtVirginiaTech.com). The lodging rate for this conference is US $103 plus applicable taxes. Participants are responsible for making their own lodging arrangements. Lodging reservations should be made by April 30, 2008.

See the Continuing Education Area Information section for more information about the Blacksburg area.

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