MECOM 2012 : X Argentine Congress on Computational Mechanics

13 - 16 November 2012, Salta, Argentina

The beautiful city of Salta, in the north-western Argentine, hold the X Argentine Congress on Computational Mechanics (MECOM 2012) from November 13th to November 16th, 2012.

It was o rganized by the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Salta,

The organizing committee was chaired by Liz G. Nallim and Mario W. E. Toledo, while the Scientific Committee was chaired by Alberto Cardona.

Invited lecturers for this congress were: Sergio Idelsohn (CIMNE, España; CIMEC-INTEC, Argentina);. Eugenio Oñate (CIMNE-UPC, España); Raul Feijoo (LNCC/CNPq, Brasil); Miguel Cerrolaza (UCV, Venezuela); Sergio Oller (CIMNE-UPC, España-Argentina); Tayfun Tezduyar (Rice University, USA); Mario Storti (INTEC-UNL, Argentina); Rainald Löhner (George Mason University, USA);

More than 300 persons attend the Congress. Full length papers were submitted to a review process prior to publication. From them, 250 papers have been accepted and included in the XXXI Volume of the AMCA Series Mecánica Computacional, edited by A. Cardona, P. Kohan, R. Quinteros and M. Storti.

A special session was devoted to undergaduate students, with awards for the best posters. The first award was for Nicolas Guillen from the National University of Cordoba, while the second one for Augusto Romero from National Technological University, Regional Faculty of Cordoba.

Homage to Prof. Sergio Idelsohn in his 65^th anniversary

The footprint leaved by Sergio in the Computational Mechanics in Argentina is huge. He created the International Center of Computational Methods in Engineering (CIMEC) and was one of the promoters, and for many years president of AMCA.

He gave the openning plenary lecture of Mecom 2012, and there was a special session devoted to his contributions. He received expressions of affection from his friends and disciples.