Announcement and Instructions for Abstracts
 
             MINISYMPOSIUM ON STABILIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS

    To be held at the Fifth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics
  Wednesday-Friday, August 4-6, 1999, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA

          Symposium Organizers:  L. P. Franca and T. J. R. Hughes

This MiniSymposium will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of recent
advances on stabilized finite element methods in the simulation of problems 
in engineering and physics. Application areas
are not restricted.  They may include fluids, solids and thermo mechanics.
This Symposium is open for contributed abstracts. We have also invited
the following speakers to participate:

Antonio C.P. Brasil Junior           (Brazil),
Franco Brezzi                        (Italy),
Ramon Codina                         (Spain),
Tom De Mulder                        (Belgium),
Jim Douglas, Jr.                     (US),
Michel Fortin                        (Canada),
Leopoldo P. Franca                   (US),
Isaac Harari                         (Israel),
Thomas J.R. Hughes                   (US),
Sergio Idelhsohn                     (Argentina),
Ken Jansen                           (US),
Arif Masud                           (US),
Eugenio Onate                        (Spain),
Tomas Rebollo                        (Spain),
Azzeddine Soulaimani                 (Canada),
Rolf Stenberg                        (Austria),
Tayfun Tezduyar                      (US),
Lutz Tobiska                         (Germany),
Wolfgang A. Wall and  Ekkehard Ramm  (Germany).

Submission Instructions (for invited speakers as well):

If you are interested in contributing to this MiniSymposium, please submit a one-page 
abstract of up to 400 words by e-mail to the first organizer listed below
on or before December 15, 1998. Abstracts sent by Fax or regular mail will not 
be considered.

Abstracts may be submitted in one of two forms:  (1) plain text, or (2) TeX source 
compatible with the Plain TeX format.  Please do not include figures or graphics. Avoid
equations in title or text.  Greek letters are acceptable if the abstract is 
submitted in TeX.  For samples of forms (1) and (2) click links in

    http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99/Abstracts.d/Information.html

If the abstract is co-authored it must identify the e-mail of the corresponding author.
All subsequent correspondence will take place by e-mail.

Abstracts deemed to fit the scope and objectives of the Symposium will be
communicated to the Congress organizers by January 15, 1999, and
notification of acceptance will be given by e-mail to the corresponding author.

A final version 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.

MiniSymposium Organizer Addresses:

 Dr. Leopoldo P. Franca 
 Dept. of Mathematics  
 University of Colorado at Denver
 CB 170, PO Box 173364  
 Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA 
 Ph: (303) 556-8460, Fax:-8550 
 lfranca@math.cudenver.edu  

Congress Program and Registration Information:

Posted at: http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99