Dear colleagues,

The International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) is organising several interesting Advanced Schools, see the list below. If someone is interested — especially students — please talk to us (Josef Málek, Vít Průša) about funding opportunities.

The International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) Udine, Italy, will organize among others the following Advanced Schools:

Fabric Tensors – Measures of Porous or Granular Material Anisotropy
Udine, June 6 – 10, 2016
Coordinated by
Luis Cardoso (The City College, New York, USA) and Stephen C. Cowin (City University of New York, San Diego, USA).

Information about the contents of this course and the procedure for admission can be found at http://www.cism.it/courses/C1604/.

22th CISM-IUTAM International Summer School on “Biological and Bio-inspired Fluid Mechanics”
Udine, July 4 – 8, 2016
Coordinated by
Eric Lauga (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Great Britain) and Christophe Eloy (IRPHE, Marseille, France).

Information about the contents of this course and the procedure for admission can be found at http://www.cism.it/courses/C1607/.

The Role of Mechanics in the Study of Lipid Bilayers
Udine, July 11 – 15, 2016
Coordinated by
David Steigmann (University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA).

Information about the contents of this course and the procedure for admission can be found at http://www.cism.it/courses/C1608/.

Multiscale Modeling of Flowing Soft Matter and Polymer Systems
Udine, July 25 – 29, 2016
Coordinated by
Paola Carbone (The University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain) and Daniele Marchisio (Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy).

Information about the contents of this course and the procedure for admission can be found at http://www.cism.it/courses/C1610/.

We hope that these activities can be of interest.

Thanking you for your kind attention, please refer to our website for detailed and further info.

Professor Bernhard Schrefler
Secretary General of CISM