28th International Conference on Nonlinear Elasticity in Materials

Location
ICNEM 2026 will be held from Sunday, May 31 - Sunday, June 6 on the Texas A&M University campus in Corpus Cristi, Texas, USA.

Lodging
The downtown OMNI hotel is 16 minutes (8 miles) from our Texas A&M conference venue. ICNEM will provide a shuttle.
Conference registration fees include accommodations and the Sunday dinner. Those fees will be determined soon.

Travel Information
Coprus Christi International Airport provides a free shuttle to the OMNI Hotel.
Corpus Christi is ~3.5 hours by car from Houston (TX) Hobby International Airport and ~2 hours from the San Antonio (TX) International Airport. .

Registration & Key Dates - Links to registration and fee payment will be posted soon.
January 2026 - Registration Deadline
March 2026 - Extended Application and Abstract Submission Deadline
April 2026 - Acceptance Notification
April 2026 - Registration Fee Deadline

Key Topics - ICNEM promotes the understanding of the elastic nonlinear behavior of solids and soft matter. The conference focuses both on basic research and applications and represents the state of the art in this domain. Topics include...
Elastic nonlinear behavior of Earth materials, industrial materials and granular media in general.
Advancements in theoretical approaches.
Modeling and simulation of nonlinear elasticity.
Measurement techniques for probing nonlinear elastic behavior of materials.
Characterization of nonlinear material properties.
Applications of nonlinear elasticity to nondestructive evaluation of materials.
Elastic nonlinear behavior in medicine.
The role of elastic nonlinear behavior in slip/avalanche physics and triggering of slip by nonlinear acoustical waves.
Earthquakes and geophysics.

ICNEM '25 Organizing Committee
TJ Ulrich, LANL & TAMU (ICNEM '26 Co-Organizer)
Pablo Tarazaga, TAMU (ICNEM '26 Co-Organizer)
Christoph Sens-Schönfelder, GFZ Potsdam, Germany
Céline Hadziioannou, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Paul Johnson, LANL Associate Fellow, USA
Koen Van Den Abeele, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Kober, Institute of Thermomechanics, Prague, Czech Republic
Marco Scalerandi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Christopher Johnson, LANL, USA

Contact Information
Questions, suggestions? Contact TJ Ulrich.

Updated 19 December 2025