[Reliable Computing] symposium in honor of Dr. Elishakoff

Dear Friends,

As many of you know, Dr. Isaac Elishakoff is one of the pioneers of
using interval and similar uncertainty in mechanical engineering
problems, the author of several books on this topic. This may be a good
opportunity for many of us to participate in honoring him. My apologies
for the last notice: abstracts are due on Monday March 2!
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Call for Papers

Symposium on Stability, Structural Reliability and Random Vibrations
 in honor of Prof. Isaac Elishakoff
Technical Committee on Dynamics and Control of Structures and Systems
(DCSS)
 Applied Mechanics Division (AMD)
Track 11: MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND CONTROL

To be held at
The 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and
Exposition
Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States
November 13-19, 2009

This Symposium celebrates the 65th anniversary of Prof. Isaac Elishakoff
(J.M. Rubin Foundation Distinguished Professor, Florida Atlantic
University).
Dr. Elishakoff is a recipient of the Bathsheva de Roths ild prize, as
well as
Fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Office, and the National
Technical
Foundation of the Netherlands. In
1991 Dr. Elishakoff has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of
Mechanics. Dr. Elishakoff has made pioneering contributions in several
areas
including random vibrations, free vibration of structures with the
generalization of Bolotin's dynamic edge effect method, nonlinear
buckling of
structures, structural reliability, uncertainty in mechanics, dynamic
stability
of structures with imperfections, and closed-form solutions of
inhomogeneous
structures. Dr. Elishakoff is the author/co-author of eight monographs,
including Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures
(Wiley-Interscience), Probabilistic and Convex Modeling of Acoustically
Excited
Structures (Elsevier), Nonclassical Problems in the Theory of Elastic
Stability
(Cambridge University Press), Large Variation Finite Element Method for
Stochastic Problems (Oxford University Press), and Eigenvalues of
Inhomogeneous
Structures: Unusual Closed-Form Solutions (CRC Press). The symposium has
been
organized on topics where the contribution of Prof. Elishakoff has been
fundamental. All researchers working in these or related areas are
warmly
invited to contribute to this symposium and to celebrate the anniversary
of
Prof. Elishakoff during the conference.

Prospective authors should submit an up to 400-word abstract via the web
tool
at the Congress 2009 website http://www.asmeconferences.org/congress09
by March
2nd, 2009, selecting Track 11 Mechanical Systems and Control and
Symposium 11-6
Stability, Structural Reliability and Random Vibrations in honor of
Prof. Isaac
Elishakoff.

Paper Planning Schedule
.. March 2nd, 2009 Abstract due via ASME web tool
.. June 1st, 2009 Manuscripts Due
.. August 17th, 2009 Final Manuscripts Due

Organizer Contact Information

Prof. Marco Amabili
Department of Mechanical Engineering
McGill University
817 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal, Canada
Email: marco.amabili@mcgill.ca
Phone: +1 514 398 3068

Prof. Dumitru I. Caruntu
Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Texas - Pan American
1201 W University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78541
E-mail: caruntud@utpa.edu
Phone: (956) 381 2079, Fax: (956) 381-3527