Topics of CMDS include:

• Models for complex heterogeneous systems and metamaterials
• Structures of composites with extreme or unusual properties
• Discrete and continuum modeling of deformable solids with microstructures
• Fundamentals of fracture, defect dynamics, fatigue, fracture dynamics, and dynamics of failure of complex structures
• Design of structured and architectured materials: Optimization of micro- and nanostructures
• Dynamics of metastable structures with multiple equilibria
• Thermodynamics, transport theory, electrical properties, and statistical mechanics in the context of continuum modeling discrete systems
• Multiphysics coupling in materials and structures
• Developments in continuum theory; non classical models, and discrete vs. continuum models
• Granular materials: statics and dynamics
• Continuum theory of living structures