Welcome!

We are pleased to announce the second international conference on Finite Element Methods in Engineering and Science (FEMTEC 2008), to be held at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) on December 8 - 12, 2008. The goal of FEMTEC is to advance the frontiers in performance and reliability of finite element methods, as well as in their application to computational engineering and science. The home page of the previous FEMTEC 2006 can be found here.

Main topics

The scope of the meeting includes the following areas of emerging importance:

• FEM for multi-scale and multi-physics problems, model adaptivity
• Adaptivity and error control for evolutionary problems
• Higher-order adaptive FEM (hp and spectral)
• Meshfree FEM, generalized FEM, enriched and extended FEM
• Advanced engineering and scientific applications
• Reliability, validation, and verification of FEM models
• Sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification

Participation of students, young researchers, women, underrepresented minorities and people with disabilities is encouraged.

Presentations

• Invited plenary lectures: 50 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
• Contributed talks: 25 minutes followed by 5 minutes of discussion.
• Poster presentations: Posters will be exhibited during the entire meeting. Maximum format of a poster is A0 (33.11 X 46.81 inches, 841 X 1189 mm). Best poster prize will be awarded during Thursday's afternoon session.

The scientific committee reserves the right to decide about the form of contributed presentations.

Abstract submission

Please prepare your abstract in Latex using this template, and send its Latex source to femtec2008@math.utep.edu.

Proceedings

The proceedings will appear as a special issue of Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (JCAM), impact factor 0.759. All papers will be subject to standard external review process. More details will be available later.