The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FEM) of the Universitiy of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the Souther Office of Aerospace Research and Development (SOARD) are sponsoring a joint workshop in the areas of Advanced Structural Mechanics and Computational Mathematics. SOARD, a branch of the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is responsible for managing the U.S. Air Force’s basic research activity in Central and South America. It provides research grants to academia and industry to facilitate building relationships between U.S.-funded researchers and foreign-funded researchers to leverage resources with each other.
For 2009, the International Office of AFOSR wants to build relationships between Brazil and U.S. researchers in the areas of Advanced Structural Mechanics and Computational Mathematics at a workshop forum in Campinas, Brazil, 18-20 November 2008. AFOSR Program Managers in these areas invite Brazilian researchers to present their research interest and ideas for future research potential. The U.S. participants will do likewise with the objective of exploring future collaborations.