Dear Colleagues,

We would like to bring to your attention the conference eXtended Discretization MethodS (X-DMS).

Second announcement, extended minisymposia proposals deadline: November 30, 2014.

The conference X-DMS continues and replaces the successful X-FEM conference cycle and aims at including a wider variety of methodologies coming from different areas of computational mechanics and numerical analysis. This new conference cycle intends to gather all scientists working on these techniques so to foster the exchange of ideas among different approaches and discuss about open issues and their possible solution. The conference topics include:

- Partition of Unity methods (Meshfree, XFEM/GFEM); - Patch Methods; - Fictitious Domain Methods; - Strong Discontinuity Approaches (SDA); - Local/Global Non-Intrusive Coupling; - Finite Cell Methods; - Multiscale Discretization; - Special techniques for static and evolving interfaces; - Crossover approaches, such as integration of PUFEM with isogeometric method.

Conference website: http://x-dms2015.sciencesconf.org/

Conference Chairs

- Giulio Ventura (Chair), Politecnico di Torino - Elena Benvenuti (Chair), University of Ferrara - Antonio Tralli (Honorary Chair), University of Ferrara

Organizing Committee

- Giulio Ventura, Politecnico di Torino - Elena Benvenuti, University of Ferrara - Antonio Tralli, University of Ferrara - Loredana Contrafatto, University of Catania - Mauro Corrado, Politecnico di Torino - Alessio Fumagalli, Politecnico di Milano - Stefano Mariani, Politecnico di Milano - Marco Paggi, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca - Anna Pandolfi, Politecnico di Milano - Anna Scotti, Politecnico di Milano - CFR, Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche

Scientific Committee

- Jorge M.V. Alfaiate, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Olivier Allix, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France - Marino Arroyo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain - Stéphane P.A. Bordas, University of Luxembourg, Belgium - Alain Combescure, INSA de Lyon, France - Massimo Cuomo, University of Catania, Italy - René De Borst, University of Glasgow, U.K. - John Dolbow, Duke University, USA - Armando Duarte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Alexander Düster, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany - Jacob Fish, Columbia University in the city of New York, USA - Luca Formaggia, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Thomas Peter Fries, TU Graz, Austria - Anthony Gravouil, INSA de Lyon, France - Peter Hansbo, Jönköping University, Sweden - Qi-Chang He, Université Paris-Est, France - Alfredo E. Huespe, UNL-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Milan Jirásek, CTU Prague, Czech Republic - Patrick Laborde, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, France - Mats G. Larson, Umeå University, Sweden - Christian Linder, Stanford University, USA - Stefan Löhnert, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany - Nicolas Moës, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France - Xavier Oliver, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain - Umberto Perego, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Stefanie Reese, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Yves Renard, INSA de Lyon, France - Arnold Reusken, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Angelo Simone, TU Delft, The Netherlands - Natarajan Sukumar, University of California Davis, USA - Haim Waisman, Columbia University in the city of New York, USA - Wolfgang Wall, Technische Universität München, Germany - Gabriel Wittum, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany - Julien Yvonnet, Université Paris-Est, France - Paolo Zunino, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

Best,

Alessio Fumagalli