Dear Participants of the Euromech Colloquium 600, we are looking forward to seeing you in Aachen! In this e-mail we would like to provide some further information about the special format of the colloquium. As you may have noticed, every contribution is planned to have a duration of 30 minutes. However, please be aware that QUESTIONS ARE ALLOWED AT ANY TIME. This means that you do not have to prepare so many slides. Certainly you can have backup slides. But important is the following: THE SLOT ENDS AFTER 30 MINUTES, independently of the fact, whether you have shown all slides. · It is completely in your hands, how you steer the discussion. For instance you could focus on a theoretical formulation. Then it would be good to present that in such a way that the auditorium can follow and ask THE questions you might want to have. You can also put questions directly on the slides. Or you focus on a specific application. Then you might plan to go through the theory quickly and show more details about the application. · But certainly ... questions can come about every part of your presentation, maybe just about the parts which are not described in detail ... Also questions about notation are absolutely normal and welcome to clarify the probably upcoming 20 different notations ... ;). · There will be the possibility to write something on the board. · The outcome and value of the discussion depends on us altogether. It will be the task of the chairpersons to steer the group a little. For example, It should not happen that a discussion between only two participants eats up 15 minutes or so. In the opposite case that there are not enough questions, the chairperson should trigger some discussion ... In order to help us all to be better prepared for the discussion, we ask every speaker to PROVIDE MAX. 5 SLIDES IN ADVANCE (pdf format). The DEADLINE for that is March 7, because we need some time to construct a pdf file and to send it around. This file will contain the abstract and the slides for every contribution. We are very much looking forward to the discussion and to learn new things ... Best regards! Stefanie and the EUR600 organization team ============================= Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefanie Reese RWTH Aachen University Institute of Applied Mechanics Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str. 1 D-52074 Aachen +49(0)241-80 25000 www.ifam.rwth-aachen.de<http://www.ifam.rwth-aachen.de> =============================