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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Dear Colleagues,<br>11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 2014) to be held in Barcelona, Spain, on July 20th-25th, 2014. We are organizing the <i>Mini-Symposium</i> "<b>STRUCTURAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION</b>" Due to your research activities in the related fields, we would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our mini-symposium. Your contribution is welcomed, and we would be honored if you could accept this invitation.</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Please register in the congress website</span><span lang=EN-US> (</span><a href="http://www.wccm-eccm-ecfd2014.org/"><span lang=EN-US> http://www.wccm-eccm-ecfd2014.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>), and then, after log in, add your abstract in the “abstract submission” section and select the Mini-Symposium " STRUCTURAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION " and then fill in the required information and upload your one page abstract.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Topics of interess</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><br>The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers who successfully develop techniques for solving structural and multidisciplinary optimization problems. We encourage new research into all aspects of the optimal design of structures as well as multidisciplinary design optimization where the involved disciplines deal with the analysis of solids, fluids or other field problems. This special session aims to provide a forum for researchers from Theoretical developments for single or multi-objective optimization as well as their application for solving real engineering problems. Submissions presenting novel developments or critical reviews are welcome. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Topics to be covered include : <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Optimization applications in automobile design, aircraft design, manufacturing; </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Numerical Optimization Techniques; Experimental Optimization Techniques; Shape and Topology Optimization; Structural Optimization; Surrogate-based Optimization; Multidisciplinary Optimization; Multi-objective Optimization; Robust and Reliability-based Design Optimization <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-US>IMPORTANT DATE</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt'>Deadline for <b>one page abstracts</b>: <b><span style='color:#1F497D'>November 29th, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Yours sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The session organizers<br>J F Aguilar Madeira, IDMEC/IST Technical University of Lisbon and ISEL<br>H.C. Rodrigues, IDMEC/IST Technical University of Lisbon; Portugal<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>