The conference will take place at the intallations of CIMNE Barcelona, Spain, located on North Campus of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). The presentations will be held on the O. C. Zienkiewicz auditorium.

Half page abstracts on topics related to the themes of the conference are invited by January 22^nd, 2010. Authors are requested to submit their abstracts via the Conference Web Site. Notification of acceptance will be given by February 5^th, 2010 at which stage information regarding the format of the papers to be published will be sent to the authors. The length of the paper should not exceed four pages including figures. Full instructions for writing and submitting both the abstract and the paper are available here . Authors are asked to send their collaborations in addres’pdf format. Other formats will not be accepted. In order to produce the proceedings in time for distribution to the delegates at the conference, completed papers will be required by February 26^th, 2010.

Instructions to authors for the preparation of papers: PDF format or Word format

Contributed papers must be written in English.

• Deadline for presenting a half page abstract: January 22^nd, 2010
• Acceptance of the paper and instructions for writing a four page paper: February 5^th, 2010
• Deadline for submitting the full paper: February 26^th, 2010
• Booking of hotel accommodation as soon as possible

Check the conference web site for details.

Three courses will be held on May 25^th, 2010.

MORNING: TWO SIMULTANEOUS COURSES

GiD introductory course: a 4 hours course for first approach to GiD 10
Content: How to create a Model. How to apply conditions, materials and meshing settings. Launch a simulation and postprocess the result.

Kratos Development Course: a 4 hours course focused on new developers.
Content: design of a basic element, short introduction to the interaction tools, basic description of the python interface and guidelines for parallel programming using Kratos.

AFTERNOON COURSE

GiD advanced course: a 4 hours course aiming to explain the steps to adapt GiD 10 to an analysis program.
Content: How to create a new customised window and modify menus. Key parameters when importing models from other CADs. Meshing complex models, Postprocessing a variety of results.

Emphasis will be placed on participants' demands.
The courses include a “hands on” tutorial on PC’s in order to following and applying the different course topics. To follow the tutorials participants will have to bring their own personal computer.

Courses fees
Courses: 100 € (Include Morning and Afternoon Course)
Combined courses + conference fees
Delegates: 250 €, Student: 200€
Further details can be found in the conference web page.

Delegates: 200 Euros
Students: 120 Euros

The fees include:

• One year licence of professional version of GiD v10

• Conference proceedings

• Attendance to all scientific sessions

• Coffee breaks, reception and dinner

Students working in applications using GiD can be supported by the organisation.

A. Coll, CIMNE (GiD)
M. Pasenau, CIMNE (GiD)
E. Escolano, CIMNE (GiD)
J. Suit, CIMNE (GiD)
R. Ribó, COMPASS
R. Rossi CIMNE (Kratos)
P. Dadvand CIMNE (Kratos)

CIMNE: International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering www.cimne.com
COMPASS Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. www.compassis.com
Kratos: Framework for building multi-disciplinary finite element programs www.cimne.com/Kratos

International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)
"LA CUP" Campus Norte UPC, Jordi Girona, 1-3
08034 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34 93 401 74 41
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Fax: +34 93 401 65 17
http//www.gidhome.com/2010

Barcelona is a cosmopolitan city on the North East coast of Spain, within easy access to some splendid holiday resorts such as those on the Costa Brava. Barcelona itself is fascinating place, and has a unique blend of historical tradition, exciting architecture, nightlife and haute cuisine.

For More information on Barcelona visit: www.bcn.es

GiD is a universal, adaptive and user-friendly graphical user interface for geometrical modelling, meshing, data input and visualisation of results for all types of numerical simulation programs.

GiD can easily generate all the information required for the analysis of any problem in science and engineering using numerical methods (structured and unstructured meshes, boundary and loading conditions, material types, visualisation of results etc.).

Typical problems that can be successfully tackled with GiD include most situations in solid and structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, heat transfer, geomechanics, etc. using finite element, finite volume, boundary element, finite difference or point-based (meshless) numerical procedures.
GiD is ideal to be used in a multi-user environment, like universities, research centres, and companies for the development, customization and application of numerical simulation programs.

Information of GiD can be found at http://www.gidhome.com

Kratos is a framework for building multi-disciplinary finite element programs. It provides several tools for easy implementation of finite element applications and also provides a common platform to allow the interaction of different solvers.

Kratos has an efficient and flexible data structure which can be used to store any type of data related to multi-disciplinary solutions. A kernel and application approach is used to reduce the possible conflicts arising between developers of different fields. The programming layers are designed to reflect the working space of different people also considering their programming knowledge. Kratos interface to python provides complete scripting capability, which is useful both for developers and for users. Finally, Kratos is integrated in GiD and can be used as a simulation package.

Information of Kratos can be found at http://www.cimne.com/Kratos/