Objective

Industrial success in high technology fields relies on the possibility to specifically engineer materials and products with improved performance. The crucial factor is the ability to make these material-related developments timely at relatively low cost. This demands rapid progress for new processing techniques as well as better understanding and control of material chemistry, processing, structure, physics, performance, durability, and their relationships. This scenario usually involves multiple length, space and time scales and multiple processing and performance stages, which are sometimes only accessible through multiscale/multistage modeling or simulation.

The purpose of the intensive short-course is to present and demonstrate fundamental modeling techniques capable of bridging different physical scales. Such scales range from the atomic level to full-scale products. The short course also addresses the challenges of multiple physical processes interacting at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Applications of multiscale technologies in aerospace and automotive industries, as well as in the emerging fields of nanotechnology and biotechnology, are also discussed.

The purpose of the seminar is to present recent advances in multiscale modeling and computations in mechanics and applied mathematics. The seminar will address both the theoretical bases for multiscale computational methods and the numerical algorithms necessary for efficient and robust computer implementation. Significant advances have recently been made in the formulation and implementation of algorithms for solving multiphysical problems involving multiscale effects. The ability to provide numerical simulations for increasingly complex problems is advancing rapidly due to the remarkable strides in computer hardware development and the improved maturity of computational procedures for multiscale modeling. The aim of the seminar is to give an overview of recent advances and identify future research directions in the field of multiscale modeling.

Intended Audience:
Due to the broad spectrum of application areas, both the short course and the seminar are believed to be of interest and of use to a varied audience, including:

• Graduate and doctoral students and researchers in academia and research institutes who need the fundamental skills that will enable them to advance to the state-of-the-art in the field.
• Practitioners in high-tech industries who are interested in taking advantage of new modeling techniques to solve future scientific and industrial problems.
• Commercial software vendors who are interested in extending their portfolios and tap into new markets.

Supporting Organizations:

• Faculty of Science and Engineering, NTNU
• Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering - Computational Science and Visualization Programme, NTNU
• Structural IMpact Laboratory, NTNU
• Institute of Materials and Chemistry, SINTEF
• Statoil ASA
• Det Norske Veritas
• Hydro Aluminium Structures Raufoss AS

Short Course Instructor:
Professor Jacob Fish. Director of the Multiscale Science and Engineering Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), New York, USA. Professor Fish has more than twenty years of experience (both in industry and academia) in the field of multiscale computational engineering.

Seminar Lecturers:

• Markus J. Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Jacob Fish, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, USA
• Marc Geers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland
• Patrick LeTallec, École Polytechnique, France
• Wing Kam Liu, Northwestern University, USA
• Christian Miehe, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Kenneth Runesson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Course and Seminar Materials:
The course material consists of copies of the lecture notes, survey papers by the instructor, and recent manuscripts not yet in press. The complete volume of course notes is available only to registered participants.

The seminar material consists of proceedings of abstracts and copies of the lecture notes.

Social Programme:
Seminar dinner at Sverresborg Trøndelag Folkemuseum,Thursday September 20.

Accommodation:
Block reservations have been made at Quality Hotel Augustin located in the center of Trondheim, offering special rates to the MSCE07 participants. Please, note that hotel reservation is the responsibility of each delegate and that block reservations expire on August 19, 2007. Trondheim is quite busy during the month of September, and we recommend that you make hotel reservation as soon as possible.