During the week of August 06-10 2007 the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC), located in the city of Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is hosting the IUTAM Symposium On Swelling And Shrinking of Porous Materials: From Colloid Science To Poromechanics. Our goal is to develop an interdisciplinary forum to identify recent developments and the state of the art in the computational modeling of multiscale phenomena in swelling systems.

A detailed scope of the symposium including the issues the meeting will highlight is given enclosed. Below we present the range of applications the symposium will cover.

Macroscopic Scale

	Geomechanics	Clays, Shales, Damage Shrinkage of Concrete
	Biomechanics	Hydrated Tissues, Bones, Corneal Swelling, Hydrogels, Intervertebral Disc.
	Pharmacology	Water-Solute Drug Carriers, Biodegradable Drug Delivery-Systems.
	Material Science	Polymeric Materials, Crosslinked Porous Structures.

Microscopic Scale
Colloid Science: Macromolecules, Poisson Boltzmann, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo Simulations, Electrical Double Layer, Electrolyte Solutions, Thin Liquid Films.