Description: Advanced mathematics provides new approaches to solving many current and future engineering problems. Developing and applying new computational tools and algorithms achieve advances in engineering research. The purpose of this symposium is to facilitate interaction among engineering researchers, scientists, and applied mathematicians in order to find, on one hand, new applications for some advanced mathematical methods, and, on the other, to find better and more promising mathematical tools for today's challenging engineering problems. The organizers invite engineers, scientists and mathematicians to share and present their ideas and most recent advances, both theoretical and applied, in mathematics and engineering mechanics in one or more of the following areas:

• New mathematical tools and algorithms based on but not limited to geometric Clifford algebras, algebraic geometry, etc. in elasticity of solids, plasticity, composite materials and shell structures
• Algebraic geometry methods including but not limited to Groebner bases in solving engineering problems
• Computational mechanics, inverse kinematics and dynamics, rigid body dynamics, robotics
• Computer graphics and visualisation
• Curves and surfaces design
• Interpolation and smoothing
• Finite elements, mesh generation, and subdivision
• Computer vision, processor design, image processing, quantum information theory, control-pose estimation, control and visual navigation
• Other topics related to engineering mechanics

Call for Abstracts and Papers:
Contributed 20-minute (including discussion) papers are invited. Abstracts must be submitted by March 10, 2006 via the conference page. Complete papers must be submitted by July 7, 2006, to one of the symposium organizers: Dr. Rafal Ablamowicz or Dr. Jane Liu.

Submissions and deadlines:
The organizers of this symposium encourage high quality submissions for a possible inclusion in one of Birkhäuser's volumes in applied mathematics, such as, for example, "Trends in Mathematics". All papers will have a page limit of 8 to 10 pages and they will be externally refereed. The deadlines are as follows:

• Deadline for submission of abstracts (see link below) through the conference site: March 10, 2006
  • Click Here to Submit an Abstract to this Symposium
• Deadline for return of reviews to authors: March 24, 2006
• Deadline for revised abstracts: April 21, 2006
• Deadline for submitting complete papers for external refereeing and possible inclusion in edited volume: July 7, 2006
  • Please submit your LaTeX file (preferred) following instructions below to one of the Editors: Dr. Rafal Ablamowiczor Dr. Jane Liu
• Deadline for return of external review to authors: August 31, 2006
• Deadline for receiving revised papers: September 30, 2006
• Approximate submission of the volume to the publisher: By December 2006

Instructions for the Authors:

• When submitting an abstract to the symposium through the conference site, please follow Instructions for Speakers.
• Papers selected by the session organizers will appear in an invited volume that will be published by Birkhäuser. All papers will be externally refereed. If you have any questions regarding your paper that you would like to have considered for a possible inclusion in the invited volume, please contact the symposium organizers.
• When submitting a complete paper to the symposium organizers for a possible inclusion in the edited volume, the Editors request that all Authors follow "Instructions for Contributing Authors" posted at http://www.math.tntech.edu/rafal/SES2006/symposium.html
• All papers will need to be submitted preferably in LaTeX using a style file and instructions supplied by the Editors. Submissions in other formats are possible upon prior consultation with the Editors. The Editors guarantee an efficient external refereeing process and a timely submission of the volume to the Published as outlined above.

Rafal Ablamowicz and Jane Liu
The Editors
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, Tennessee 38505

January 5, 2006