Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, has been invited to give an invited lecture at the 7th Iberian Vacuum Meeting and the 5th European Conference on Hard Coatings from June 22-25, 2008, in Caparica, Portugal. Every day, new scientific and technical accomplishments are reported in fields as nanocatalysis, functional thin films or plasma applications. Therefore, scientists and engineers, whose research is vacuum dependent, have much to share and to discuss in a forum as this conference intends to be. Dr. Lakhtakia will be presenting on Elastodynamics of Inorganic and Polymeric Sculptured Thin Films. For more information regarding this meeting, please visit their website