2025 Haftka Young Investigator Award – Call for Nominations 

The ISSMO Executive Committee is pleased to invite nominations for the 2025 Haftka Young Investigator Award. The Haftka Young Investigator Award recognizes outstanding researchers early in their careers for achievements and promising groundbreaking research in the field of structural and multidisciplinary optimization. The award is named in honor of the foundational research contributions of Professor […]

Call for papers ncmdao

International and National Conference on Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis, and Optimization (iNCMDAO-2024)  This international conference follows the six national conferences on the MDAO theme held since 2018 (ncmdao.org). Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI) are the organizers of iCMDAO-2024 that aims to bring together international researchers and the growing MDAO […]

TOP Webinar 29: Data-Driven Multiscale Design

26th of March 2024, 16:00-17:00 CET (UTC+1) Time zone converter. Following our new format, introduced in January, each webinar will revolve around a specific theme, comprising an educational/review paper (20 minutes) and two latest articles (10 minutes x 2) related to the same topic. The entire session will last for 1 hour. Please register at this link. […]

TOP Webinar 28: Topology optimization for additive manufacturing

We are pleased to announce the program of the 28th TOP Webinar, a thematic session on “Topology optimization for additive manufacturing”. It was scheduled for the 27th of February 2024, 16:00-17:00 pm CET (UTC+1) Time zone converter. Following our new format, introduced in January, each webinar will revolve around a specific theme, comprising an educational/review paper […]

TOP Webinar 27: Fluid topology optimization

Jan. 30, 2024, CET 16:00-17:00 To kick off the new year, we’re introducing a fresh series of TOP Webinars featuring a modified format. Each webinar will revolve around a specific theme, comprising an educational/review paper (20 minutes) and two latest articles (10 minutes x 2) related to the same topic. The entire session will last […]

Announcing the host for WCSMO-16

On behalf of the ISSMO Executive Committee, we are pleased to announce the host and location of our WCSMO-16 to be Kobe, Japan in 2025. Congratulations to the leaders of the local organizing committee: Makoto Osaki (honorary chair), Kazuhiro Izui (general chair), Junji Kato, Shinji Nishiwaki, Akihiro Takezawa and Kozo Furuta. We received several excellent proposals […]

Announcing 2023 ISSMO/Springer Prize Awardee

On behalf of the ISSMO Executive Comittee, we are very pleased to announce that the ISSMO/Springer Prize 2023 is awarded to Mr. Changyoung Yuhn: “4D topology optimization: Integrated optimization of the structure and self-actuation of soft bodies for dynamic motions” by Changyoung Yuhn, Yuki Sato, Hiroki Kobayashi, Atsushi Kawamoto and Tsuyoshi Nomura, Toyota Central R&D […]

ICTAM – Thematic Session: Metamaterials, architectured materials and topology optimization

26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Daegu, Korea – August 25-30, 2024 Dear Colleagues, The 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2024) will be held in Daegu, Korea, August 25-30, 2024. As co-chairs of the Thematic Session on “Metamaterials, architectured materials and topology optimization”, it is our pleasure to encourage researchers […]

ICTAM – Thematic Session: Optimisation for solids and fluids

26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Daegu, Korea – August 25-30, 2024 Submit an abstract, to be presented in either a Lecture Session (occupying a 20-minute slot, including discussion) or a Short Talk with Poster Session (a 5-minute presentation slot plus the opportunity to display a poster). As you probably know, the 26th […]

Call for Proposals to hold WCSMO-16

Deadline: November 15, 2023 One of the aims of ISSMO is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of structural and multidisciplinary optimization, by means of international meetings having a high scientific standard. Selection criteria include: The last item is meant to imply a reasonably uniform distribution of congresses over three zones, namely […]