Recent/new conferences and symposia that I was/am involved with as a co-organizer
- “Symposium on Micromechanics of Random Media,” at ASME Intl. Mech. Engng. Conf. & Exposition, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 1996
- “Scale Effects in Heterogeneous Materials,” at ASME Intl. Mech. Engng. Conf. & Exposition, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 1998
- NATO Advanced Research Workshop “PROBAMAT II – Probabilities and Materials,” Perm, Russia, Sept. 1997
- 6th Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM VI), Jan. 1999
- Mechanics of Random and Multiscale Microstructures, CISM Course, Udine, ITALY, Sept. 25-29, 2000.
- 7th Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM VII), Jan. 2002
- Member of the International Organizing Committee of the 5th International Congress on Thermal Stresses and Related Topics, June 2003
- Member of National Organizing Committee, 2005 Joint ASME/ASCE/SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials – McMat
- 8th Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM VIII), Jan. 2004, North American Chairman.
- 20th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics–CANCAM 2005, Program Chairman
- 9th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM-9), San Francisco, July 22-26, 2007; co-organizer with Marcin Kaminski of a Mini-Symposium on “Computational Mechanics of Random Media”
- CMDS 11 – 11th International Symposium on Continuum Models and Discrete Systems, Paris, France, 30 July – 3 August 2007
- 10th Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM X ), Jan. 2008 [organized by Tom Attard; tattard@csufresno.edu]
- First American Academy of Mechanics Conference, June 2008
- Symposium “Mechanics of Biological Tissues,” First American Academy of Mechanics Conference, June 2008
- 45th Annual Technical Meeting of SES, Local Organizing Committee, Oct. 2008
- Chairman of 8th International Congress on Thermal Stresses, at UIUC, June 1-4, 2009
- Member of the International Scientific Committee of EUROMECH Colloquium – “Mechanics of generazlized continua: A hundred years after the Cosserats,” No.510, Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, May 13-16, 2009
- THERMEC¹2009 – 6th International Conference on Processing & Manufacturing of Advanced Materials, August 25-29, 2009 in Berlin, Germany; Scientific Committee Member and Topic Coordinator
- Scientific Committee Member of DSTA-2009, 10th Conference on Dynamical Systems – Theory and Applications, December 7-10, Åódź, Poland
- 11th Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XI), Jan. 2010 [organized by Adair Aguiar (pacamxi@sc.usp.br) and Tom Attard (tattard@csufresno.edu)]
- 9th Intl. Congress on Thermal Stresses, 5-9 June, 2011, Chair of Intl. Organizing Cmte.
- Minisymposium “Randomness, Fractals, and Computational Mechanics,” 11th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Minneapolis, July 2011
- 12th Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII), Jan. 2-6, 2012
- Local Organizing Committee,4th International Conference on Porous Media and Annual Meeting of the International Society of Porous Media http://www.physics.purdue.edu/interpore2012/
- International Conference on Mechanics of Complex Solids and Fluids (ICMCSF) in Lille, France, May 17-22, 2015
- 13th International Congress on Thermal Stresses, June 4-8, 2023, Luleå, Sweden
- 14th International Symposium on Continuum Models and Discrete Systems, Paris, France — 26-30 June 2023