Symposia and Topics

Seeking proposals for symposia for the 2020 Mach Conference

The Mach conference program is largely comprised of symposia that are organized around specific topics of interest, each of which contains one or more sessions.

If you are interested in organizing a symposium session at Mach 2020, please send a proposal to bess@jhu.edu that includes:

• Title
• Name(s) of symposium organizer(s)
• 200 word summary
• Potential speakers (if available)

Note: this is a call for symposia topics and organizers, the call for individual abstracts will be later in the fall.

The deadline for this call is October 1, 2019.

SYMPOSIA

Topics of interest to the conference:

• Approaches to large-scale Density Functional Theory (Big DFT)
• Atomistics, potential development and molecular dynamics
• Coarse graining and fast multiscale methods
• Dynamics of flaws, fracture, failure, and fragmentation
• Energetic materials
• Image-based computational mechanics
• In situ high rate/high temperature experimentation
• Materials modeling using particle methods
• Mechanics of damage at multiple scales
• Mechanics of semi-crystalline polymers
• Novel techniques for three-dimensional material characterization
• Single fiber and single filament characterization

Below is a list of symposia for the 2019 Mach Conference.

• Analytical and numerical methods for upscaling of grain/particle mechanics
• Architected Materials: Design, Fabrication and Characterization
• Ceramic in Extreme Environments: Processing and Properties
• Experimental and Computation Characterization of Dynamic Behavior of Advanced Ceramics
• From Atoms to Armor: multiaxial dynamic impact mechanics of ballistic fibers and composites (
• High rate multiscale mechanics of particulate materials and soils
• Impact Matters: KT Ramesh’s 60th Birthday Symposium – INVITATION ONLY
• Machine Learning Techniques for Accelerated and Intelligent Materials Design and Discovery
• Mechanical Processing for Advanced Lightweight Alloys
• Modeling and Characterization of Fiber-Matrix Interphase
• Multiscale approaches to modeling hierarchical materials
• Multiscale Models and Experiments for Energetic Materials
• Slip, Twins, and Voids – IV
• Uncertainty quantification and stochastic modeling of materials

To view conference agendas from past years (including speakers), click here.