Advances in Computational Mechanics A Conference Celebrating the 60th Birthday of

1. Advances in Computational Mechanics A Conference Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Thomas J.R. Hughes April 7–9, 2004 McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall Rice University, Houston, Texas Sponsored by Rice University Northwestern University Invited Speakers Francisco Armero, Berkeley • Ivo Babuska, University of Texas, Austin • Ted Belytschko, Northwestern • Pål Bergan, Veritas, Norway • Franco Brezzi, Universita di Pavia, Italy • Claudio Canuto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy • Issam Doghri, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium • Jean Donea, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain • Charbel Farhat, University of Colorado, Boulder • Robert Ferencz, Livermore • Leopoldo Franca, University of Colorado, Denver • Krishna Garikipati, University of Michigan • Roland Glowinski, University of Houston • Isaac Harari, Tel Aviv University, Israel • Guillermo Hauke, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain • Antonio Huerta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain • Greg Hulbert,University of Michigan • Ken Jansen, RPI • Claes Johnson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden • Wing Liu, Northwestern • Herbert Mang, Technical University of Vienna, Austria • Donatella Marini, Universita di Pavia, Italy • Arif Masud, University of Illinois, Chicago • Assad Oberai, Boston University • Tinsley Oden, University of Texas, Austin • Eugenio Onate, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain • Michael Ortiz, Caltech • Roger Owen, University of Wales Swansea, UK • Peter Pinsky, Stanford • Karl Pister, Berkeley • Alfio Quarteroni, EPFL, Switzerland • Ekkehard Ramm, University of Stuttgart, Germany • John Shadid, Sandia • Charles Taylor, Stanford • Robert Taylor, Berkeley • Tayfun Tezduyar, Rice • Mary Wheeler, University of Texas, Austin • Genki Yagawa, University of Tokyo, Japan • Thomas Zimmermann, EPFL, Switzerland Conference Chair:Tayfun Tezduyar, Rice University To register or for more information, please visit http://www.mems.rice.edu/TAFSM/TH60/ or contact us by email, phone or fax. Email: tezduyar@rice.edu Phone: 713-348-6051 Fax: 713-348-5423 Pre-registration is required.