SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, May 8-12, 2016, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Chaired by Peter Smereka of the University of Michigan and David Srolovitz of the University of Pennsylvania). The Organizing Committee from China, Germany, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, and USA is pleased to announce our exciting line up of confirmed Plenary Speakers, including Kaushik Bhattacharya, Vasily Bulatov, Gabor Csanyi, Mikko Haataja, David Kinderlehrer, Carl E Krill III, Erica Lilleodden, John Lowengrub, Pingbing Ming, Felix Otto, Christof Schutte, Reidon Twarock and Xiao-Ping Wang. In order to promote increased collaborations between materials scientists and mathematicians, this conference will be co-sponsored by the Materials Research Society (MRS). Please see the conference website for more details: http://www.siam.org/meetings/ms16/.

We would like to encourage you to submit a Minisymposium proposal. Note the deadline is coming soon, 08 October 2015 - so there's no time to waste. You can find all of the details: http://www.siam.org/meetings/ms16/submissions.php. We look forward to your ACTIVE participation.