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UWI to host 12th Pan American Congress on Applied Mechanics

For Release Upon Receipt - December 16, 2011

St. Augustine


The St. Augustine Campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI) hosts the 12th Pan American Congress on Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII) from January 2nd to 6th, 2012 at the Faculty of Engineering, Lecture Theaatre 1, Block 13.

Organized through the Faculty of Engineering, this conference brings together researchers and practising engineers from North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, to facilitate discussion of the advances made in the field of Applied Mechanics. This conference aims to strengthen the links between scholars in the Pan American region by offering participants the opportunity to share their scientific, technical, computational and experimental ideas.

PACAM XII features plenary lectures by leading researchers in Applied Mechanics, including Luiz Bevilacqua of the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil; Gustavo Buscaglia, Professor at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Michael Ortiz, Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, USA; Richard Rand, Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University, USA; and Charles Steele, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, USA.

Attending the conference as specially invited guests are UWI St. Augustine Campus Principal, Professor Clement Sankat; and Minister of Technology and Tertiary Education, the Honourable Fazal Karim.

Attendance at this event is by invitation only and is at a cost of US $500 per participant, or US $300 for students.

For further information, please contact Dr. Jacqueline Bridge, Conference Co-chair at (868) 662-2002 ext 83166, or via e-mail at Jacqueline.Bridge@sta.uwi.edu, or contact Roxanne Timothy at (868) 662-2002 ext 82497, or via e-mail at Roxanne.Timothy@sta.uwi.edu, or visit the conference website at www.pacamxii.org.

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

(Please note that the registered name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

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