The 2016 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science will be held May 8–12, in Philadelphia, Pa. It is sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science. The organizing committee co-chairs are Peter Smereka of the University of Michigan and David Srolovitz of the University of Pennsylvania.

This conference focuses on interdisciplinary approaches that bridge mathematical and computational methods to the science and engineering of materials, including all electronic structure, atomistic simulation, microstructures, continuum descriptions, thermodynamics, kinetics, analytical methods, stochastic methods, and computational methods, as well as approaches and questions that are arising within the Materials Genome.

Invited plenary speakers are Kaushik Bhattacharya of the California Institute of Technology, USA; Vasily Bulatov of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA; Gábor Csányi of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Mikko Haataja of Princeton University, USA; David Kinderlehrer of Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Carl Krill III of Universität Ulm, Germany; Erica Lilleodden of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany; John Lowengrub of the University of California–Irvine, USA; Ping-Bing Ming of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Felix Otto of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany; Christof Schütte of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Reidun Twarock of the University of York, United Kingdom; and Xiao-Ping Wang of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.

The submission deadline for contributed lectures, posters, and mini-symposium presentation abstracts is December 15. The travel fund application deadline for students and postdocs is December 4. Pre-registration ends April 11, 2016. For more information, go to www.siam.org/meetings/ms16.