Announcement and Call for Abstracts

            MINISYMPOSIUM ON INVERSE PROBLEMS

  Fifth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics
        University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA
                    August 4-6, 1999
         http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99

Symposium Organizers: K. F. Alvin and K. C. Park

The solution of inverse problems is a growing and challenging field
within computational mechanics and heat transfer.  Briefly, inverse
problems involve the determination of parameters, model structure,
boundary conditions and so on from knowledge of a system's response.
As high performance computing continues to push modeling and
simulation to higher levels of fidelity and physics complexity,
inverse problems are potentially more ill-posed and difficult to
solve.  Furthermore, as sponsors demand higher levels of predictive
accuracy from computational modeling and simulation, inverse methods
are becoming ever more important for purposes of model validation
and uncertainty quantification.

Contributions are being solicited in the following areas:

- Parameter estimation and model updating
- Finite element disassembly
- Identification of Model Form and boundary conditions
- Forcing function identification
- Inverse algorithms for structural damage detection and health
      monitoring
- Identification of failure modes/mechanisms
- Sensitivity analysis and experiment design
- Inverse problems in coupled systems
- Bayesian inference and uncertainty methods
- High performance computing aspects of inverse problems

If you are interested in contributing to this Symposium, please
submit a one-page abstract of up to 400 words by e-mail to one of
the orgainizers listed below on or before December 15, 1998.
Notification of acceptance will be given by e-mail to the
corresponding author by January 15, 1999. If the abstract is co-
authored it must identify the e-mail of the corresponding author.
All correspondence will take place by e-mail.

A final version of the Abstract, for inclusion in the printed book
of Abstracts, may be submitted before May 15, 1999. This final form
is to be sent directly to the Congress e-mail address following
the instructions posted on the Web Site. Abstracts may be submitted
in one of three forms: (1) plain text, (2) TeX source compatible
with the Plain TeX format, or (3) Word 6 or 7 document in Rich Text
Format (RTF). Please do not include figures or graphics. Avoid
equations in title or text. Greek letters are acceptable if the
abstract is submitted in TeX or Word. For samples of forms (1) and
(2) click links in
http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99/Abstracts.d/Instructions.html.

Symposium organizer addresses:

Kenneth F. Alvin                    Professor K.C. Park
Sandia National Laboratories        Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
P.O. Box 5800, M/S 0439             University of Colorado, CB 429
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0439, USA     Boulder, CO 80309-0429, USA
Ph: (505) 844-9329                  Ph: (303) 492-6330
email: kfalvin@sandia.gov           email: kcpark@titan.colorado.edu