3rd Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation

August 1-4, 2001
Hyatt Regency Dearborn
Dearborn, Michigan

Journal Publication

A special edition of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering is in the process of publication from selected papers from the symposium.

The Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation brings together a wide variety of disciplines for the exchange of technical information related to unstructured mesh generation. It is a biennial symposium held in conjuction with the US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM), the main congress of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM). Previous Symposia have been held at North Western University (1997) and The University of Colorado, Boulder (1999). The 2001 symposium will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn Michigan, in the heart of the US Auto and manufacturing industries.

Scope of Symposium

Abstracts and papers are invited dealing with all aspects of unstructured mesh generation, including, but not limited to:

Surface and volume meshing algorithms
Mesh improvements criteria and algorithms
Mesh adaptation algorithms
Anisotropic mesh generation and adaptation
Dealing with geometry issues including integration with CAD and high order elements
Mesh evolution in evolving geometry problems
Automatic geometric simplification techniques
Interesting applications of automated and adaptive analysis
Novel new domain discretization schemes
Parallel implementations and control of very large meshes

Abstract Submission

Abstracts are required for the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. Abstracts should be plain text and should be less than 500 words. An example of an abstract from a previous USNCCM conference is included here.

Submit a one page electronic version of your abstract by January 31, 2001 to Professor Mark S. Shephard, shephard@scorec.rpi.edu. Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 15, 2001.

Paper Submission

For inclusion in this symposia, full length papers (in addition to the abstract) are requested, but not required. While the conference proceedings will only contain abstracts, a collection of the final papers are planned to be combined into a special edition of the journal Engineering With Computers All papers must be submitted by July 15, 2001.

Submitted papers should conform to guidlines outlined by Engineering With Computers. Instructions for Authors are included here in both pdf and Word97 formats. Electronic papers should be submitted to Professor Mark S. Shephard via email or anonymous ftp.

Important Dates

Abstracts Due	January 31 2001
Notification of Acceptance of Abstracts	March 15 2001
Early Registration Deadline	June 15 2001
Papers Due	July 15 2001
US National Congress on Computational Mechanics	August 1-3 2001
Short Course	August 4 2001

Symposium Organizers

Mark S. Shephard, Ph.D.
Director, Scientific Computation Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Phone: (518) 276-6795
Fax: (518) 276-4886
Email: shephard@scorec.rpi.edu

Steven J. Owen, Ph.D.
Parallel Computing Sciences Deaprtment
Sandia National Laboratories
Phone: (505) 284-6599
Email: sjowen@sandia.gov

Sunil Saigal, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon Unversity
Phone: (412) 268-2077
Email: saigal+@cmu.edu

Kenji Shimada, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
Carnegie Mellon Unversity
Phone: (412) 268-2077
Email: shimada@cmu.edu

Additional Information

Additional information on the conference can be found at: http://www.usnccm.org/

sjowen@sandia.gov