The internationally recognized MAFELAP conferences have been run by BICOM at Brunel University at three year intervals since 1972. In these conferences exposure is given to research on the theory and practical application of finite element methods.
The twelfth conference on the Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications will begin at 1030 at Brunel University and run during

The aim will again be to bring together workers from different disciplines whose common interest is finite element methods, and to promote wider awareness throughout the finite element community of the latest developments in the field. Further details will be posted here as they become available. Registration is now

If you have not yet registered then please do so now. Thank you for your cooperation.

Audio - Visual arrangements for MAFELAP 2006

Please note that, in common with most conferences, each room will be equipped with the following equipment:

• an overhead projector and pens;
• a whiteboard and pens;
• a laptop projector.

For laptops used in presentations it is important that you:

• know how to switch the projector port's output on
• keep the screen resolution at or below 1024 by 768

Also, we are not able to provide printing facilites for generating hard copies of presentations (e.g. from power point, PDF, etc.).

Draft programme for MAFELAP 2006

The latest version of the programme for MAFELAP is here. Please note that this is not definitive - although we only expect to make minor changes from this date forward.

Registration and fees for MAFELAP 2006

General information on fees is available here or as a printable Word document.

Please register by completing and returning to us this registration form in: Word, PDF or PostScript.

Deadlines for MAFELAP 2006

There are three deadlines:

• Abstracts are due by May 5, 2006.
• Registration forms are due by May 22, 2006.
• Partial refunds must be claimed by May 12, 2006.

Call for papers and mini-symposia

Although many have already been proposed, we are still encouraging colleagues to organise mini-symposia at MAFELAP. Briefly, the parameters for a mini-symposium are that we shall allocate a time-slot to the organisers, during which they can have four speakers, each giving a presentation (probably 30 minutes: 25 minutes talk plus 5 minutes for questions). If organisers want more than four talks, then we could give them two time slots. If you are interested in running a mini-symposium, please submit a title to us as soon as possible, with a tentative list of speakers.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Anyone who wishes to present a lecture in a parallel session or mini-symposium is asked to prepare an abstract as soon as possible. Submission details will appear here soon. The conference organisers will make every effort to associate talks with suitable mini-symposia.

Instructions for authors

So that a book of abstracts can be produced we request that all authors adhere to the guidelines found here. If your document does not conform to these guidelines then it is unlikely that we will have time to convert it, and therefore unlikely that it will be circulated to delegates.

Mini-symposia

A list of all currently proposed mini-symposia can be found here.

Conference themes

• Theory and practice in finite elements
• Engineering and scientific applications of FEM
• Adaptivity
• Hierarchical methods
• CFD and structural mechanics
• Multiphysics
• Fluid structure interaction
• Finite volume methods
• Boundary element methods
• Flow in porous media
• Biomechanics

Events

MAFELAP 2006 will consist of:

• invited lectures, including the
  • Zienkiewicz lecture
  • Babuska lecture
• mini symposia
• parallel sessions

The 2006 Zienkiewicz Lecture

The 2006 Babuska Lecture

Invited speakers:

• M Ainsworth, University of Strathclyde
• H T Banks, North Carolina State University
• C Carstensen, Humboldt University, Berlin
• L Demkowicz, University of Texas at Austin
• I Graham, University of Bath
• N Heuer, Brunel University
• U Langer, University of Linz
• J T Oden, University of Texas at Austin
• A Quarteroni, Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne

Contact details