Dear Colleague,

we are pleased to announce a symposium on "Atomistic and Mesoscale Aspects of Fracture and Fatigue", that Peter Gumbsch (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer IWM) and Gianpietro Moras (Fraunhofer IWM) are organising at the 14th International Conference on Fracture (http://www.icf14.org). The conference will take place in Rhodes (Greece) from 18 to 23 June 2017.

This symposium will gather a group of world-leading, theoretical and experimental experts to present and discuss the latest scientific developments related to the fundamental mechanisms and the physics of fracture and fatigue at the atomic scale and at the mesoscale (please, see the attached flyer for further details).

The preliminary list of speakers includes: Erik Bitzek (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany), William Curtin (EPFL, Switzerland), Alessandro De Vita (King's College London, UK), Jay Fineberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Huajian Gao (Brown University, USA), Rebecca Janisch (ICAMS, Germany), James Kermode (University of Warwick, UK), Christian Motz (Saarland University, Germany), Dov Sherman (Tel Aviv University, Israel).

There are still slots available for contributed talks. If you would like to contribute to the symposium, please send an email with a tentative title for your talk as soon as possible to Gianpietro Moras ([email protected]) and submit an abstract through the ICF14 website by October 31st 2016 (https://icf14.org/registration/participants/submit.php, please select our symposium under “Topic Areas / Special Symposia”).

Yours sincerely,

Gianpietro Moras & Peter Gumbsch