Advances in Computational Mechanics A Conference Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Thomas J.R. Hughes April 7–9, 2004 McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall Rice University, Houston, Texas Invited Speakers Francisco Armero, Berkeley • Ivo Babuska, University of Texas, Austin • Ted Belytschko, Northwestern • Pål Bergan, Veritas, Norway • Franco Brezzi, Universita di Pavia, Italy • Claudio Canuto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy • Issam Doghri, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium • Jean Donea, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain • Charbel Farhat, University of Colorado, Boulder • Robert Ferencz, Livermore • Leopoldo Franca, University of Colorado, Denver • Krishna Garikipati, University of Michigan • Roland Glowinski, University of Houston • Isaac Harari, Tel Aviv University, Israel • Guillermo Hauke, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain • Antonio Huerta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain • Greg Hulbert, University of Michigan • Ken Jansen, RPI • Claes Johnson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden • Wing Liu, Northwestern • Herbert Mang, Technical University of Vienna, Austria • Donatella Marini, Universita di Pavia, Italy • Arif Masud, University of Illinois, Chicago • Assad Oberai, Boston University • Tinsley Oden, University of Texas, Austin • Eugenio Onate, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain • Michael Ortiz, Caltech • Roger Owen, University of Wales Swansea, UK • Peter Pinsky, Stanford • Karl Pister, Berkeley • Alfio Quarteroni, EPFL, Switzerland • Ekkehard Ramm, University of Stuttgart, Germany • John Shadid, Sandia • Charles Taylor, Stanford • Robert Taylor, Berkeley • Tayfun Tezduyar, Rice • Mary Wheeler, University of Texas, Austin • Genki Yagawa, University of Tokyo, Japan • Thomas Zimmermann, EPFL, Switzerland