The ICMMES-2012 Brochure can be downloaded here.

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to join us in the Nineth International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science (ICMMES-2012), July 23-27, 2012.  This year, the ICMMES Conference will be held in the International Hall, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan -- one of the organizing institute of ICMMES-2012. The Local Organizing Committee will be led by Professor Professor Jaw-Yen Yang of NTU and Professor Chao-An Lin of National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

As in previous years, short courses designed to help students and researchers new to the field will be offered in the first day of the Conference, Monday, July 23, 2012, followed by four days of technical presentations. More details can be found in "Program" on the ICMMES website.

For the convenience of the participants, we have installed the following functions on ICMMES website (http://www.icmmes.org):

1. Conftool: a conference management software for registration and abstract submission. Conftool allows you to create your personal account for ICMMES-2012. The information of your account can be saved and edited later. Further info can be found on the following website: http://www.conftool.net/user_documentation.html
2. The registration fees should be paid in US dollars.
3. For US participants, PayPal can be used to pay the registration fees online in US dollars. PayPal is integrated in Conftool.  To avoid unnecessary transaction fees, we encourage US participants to send checks to Old Dominion University according to the Instructions provided on the ICMMES website.

Several important dates and deadlines:

• Early registration with discounted fees: by Monday, April 2nd (extended to April 30th).
• Abstract submission: by April 2nd (extended to April 30th), 2012, to be fully considered for oral presentation.
• Notice of Abstract Acceptance: by  Friday, April 20th (extended to May 7th), 2012, for the abstracts received by Monday, April 2nd (extended to April 30th).
• Abstracts for oral presentations submitted after April 2nd (extended to April 30th) will be considered only if slots are available.
• Abstracts submitted after Monday, April 20th (extended to May 7th), may NOT be included in the Conference Program.

As in the previous years, we are applying support from some US funding agencies to support US participation in ICMMES-2012. Should we obtain the funding, it will be dedicated to support students, post-doctoral researchers, and junior faculty in the US institutions to attend ICMMES-2012. For more details, please check "Travel Support" under "Logistics" on ICMMES website.

More information can be found on our website http://www.icmmes.org. Should you have any questions, please send us email to

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ICMMES strives to serve the community at large. "Job Fair" on our website provide a place to exchange job information.  If you are hiring, please provide a brief statement (job title, starting date, duration, and qualifications) as well as a full description of the position (in PDF or MS doc format); if you are looking for a position, please provide a brief statement (including when you obtained or will expect your degree and in what field, what type of positions you are interested in, and when you are available). The information should be sent to

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More information can be found on our website http://www.icmmes.org. Should you have any questions, please send us email to

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We are looking forward to welcoming you in Taipei.

Sincerely Yours,

Prof. Jaw-Yen Yang and Prof. Chao-An Lin, Co-Chairs
ICMMES-2011 Local Organizing Committee

Manfred Krafczyk and Li-Shi Luo, Co-Chairmen
ICMMES Scientific Committee