Location Important Dates The conference will take place at Vienna University of Mini-symposia proposal, deadline June 30, 2012 Technology, which is located in the center of the city. Mini-symposia acceptance, deadline August 15, 2012 Vienna´s most impressive sights are within walking distance Abstract submission, deadline November 15, 2012 of Vienna University of Technology. Notification of acceptance January 10, 2013 BIOT-5 Full-paper submission, deadline February 28, 2013 It can be easily reached by public transport from Vienna Early registration, deadline February 28, 2013 http://biot2013.conf.tuwien.ac.at International Airport, which provides direct flights to 170 destinations worldwide. Conference Secretariat Correspondence should be sent to: Accommodation 5th BIOT Conference on Block reservations at preference rates are arranged by the Vienna University of Technology organizers. Detailed information will be available on the Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures Poromechanics conference webpage in due course. Karlsplatz 13/202 A-1040 Vienna, Austria Social Programme Email: [email protected] commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Welcome Cocktail Phone: (++43 1) 588 01-20211 It will be offered on Wednesday, July 10, in the Cupola Hall Fax: (++43 1) 588 01-920211 Karl von Terzaghi‘s Death of Vienna University of Technology. Banquet July 10-12, 2013 | Vienna, Austria The banquet, given by the Mayor of the City of Vienna, will take place in the picturesque City Hall on Thursday, July 11. Registration Fees Early registration fees are applicable if payment is received not later than February 28, 2013. Early Late Delegates € 500 € 550 Students € 250 € 300

The fees include the Proceedings, coffee breaks, the welcome cocktail, and the banquet. Scope and Invitation Call for Mini-Symposia Local Organizer The first Biot conference on Poromechanics was held in 1998 Proposals for mini-symposia are invited for online Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), the Alma submission through the conference website by June 30, Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures Mater of Maurice Anthony Biot (1905-1985), the founder of 2012. Institute for Geotechnical Engineering the field that is commonly referred to as Biot theory of poroelasticity, a field with unparalleled impact on a wide Conference Topics Chairman variety of disciplines, including civil and biomedical • Constitutive Modeling • Plasticity and Christian HELLMICH (TU Wien) engineering, geophysics, , and materials science. • Homogenization Theory Viscoelasticity This first conference, with its truly multidisciplinary nature, • Transport Phenomena • Bio-inspired Materials Co-Chairmen was so successful that the Poromechanics community Propagation and • Petroleum Engineering Bernhard PICHLER (TU Wien) continued to meet and exchange ideas in a four-year interval, • Dynamics Biomechanics Dietmar ADAM (TU Wien) 2002 at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France), 2005 • • Bone Mechanics • Composite Materials at Oklahoma University (where the Biot centennial was Secretary General celebrated), before BIOT-4 was hosted, in 2009, by Columbia • Fracture Mechanics • Upscaling Laws Martina PÖLL (TU Wien) University (New York, USA) where Biot, as the Professor of • Rock Mechanics • Multi-phase flows Mechanics, wrote his seminal 1941-paper on “General theory • Damage • Non-Newtonian Advisory Committee of three-dimensional consolidation”, which made him the • Consolidation & • Mechanics Younane ABOUSLEIMAN (University of Oklahoma) Father of Poromechanics. Subsidence • Physical-Chemical Jean-Lous AURIAULT (Université Joseph Fourier) • Partially Saturated Media Coupling As the year 2013 approaches, it seems appropriate to Alex CHENG (University of Mississippi) Fibrous Materials Thermal Coupling and commemorate the “Grandfather” of Poromechanics, Karl von • • Hoe I.P. LING (Columbia University) Effects Terzaghi (1883-1963), the founder of consolidation • Numerical Methods Jean-Francois THIMUS (Université Catholique de Louvain) experiments and theoretical in general. We • Experimental Techniques • Electric and Magnetic Franz-Josef ULM (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will do so at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), • Acoustics and Seismicity Coupling the first university who granted Terzaghi, in 1929, a full • Cell and Tissue Mechanics • Geophysics Local Organising Committee professorship on the topic, and the place where Terzaghi • Geomechanics • Materials Science Elisabeth BEMER Günter HOFSTETTER established the, at that time, largest and most comprehensive • Nano- and Micro- Ronald BLAB Eric LEMARCHAND soil mechanics laboratory in the world. Following the great Poromechanics Stefan BLOVSKY Martin SCHANZ examples of Terzaghi and Biot, our focus will be on the Karin DE BORST Wei WU beneficial interaction of experiment, theory, and computation, Call for Papers Josef EBERHARDSTEINER and the merging of often over-specialized disciplines into a Prospective authors are kindly invited to electronically unified natural science viewpoint, jointly driven forward by submit an abstract related to the conference topics through International Scientific Committee scientists and engineers. It is in this spirit that we cordially the conference website by November 15, 2012. Instructions Zdenek P. BAZANT Huabei LIU invite colleagues working on the mechanics and of for preparing full length papers will be provided with the James G. BERRYMAN Majid MANZARI porous media, from the atomistic to the kilometer scale, to notification of acceptance of the contribution. Ronaldo BORJA Günther MESCHKE join us in Vienna, in 2013, at the 5th BIOT conference on Jan CARMELIET Marcio MURAD Poromechanics - dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Karl Exhibition/Sponsorship Gilles CHANVILLARD K.K. MURALEETHARAN von Terzaghi’s death. Companies and/or publishers are kindly invited to exhibit Georgios CONSTANTINIDES Jin Y. OOI their products and services. Interested exhibitors can find Steve COWIN Martin OSTOJA- all necessary information on the conference website. In Emmanuel M. DETOURNAY STARZEWSKI addition, attractive sponsorships will be offered. Luc DORMIEUX Jean PREVOST Robert EYMARD James RICE Edouardo FAIRBAIRN John RUDNICKI Dmitry I. GARAGASH George SCHERER Albert GIRAUD Bernhard SCHREFLER Boris GUREVICH Serge A. SHAPIRO Jacques HUYGHE Henri VANDAMME Victor N. KALIAKIN Herbert WANG Mazen KANJ Yunping XI Dinesh R. KATTI Robert W. ZIMMERMAN