28th International Conference on Nonlinear Elasticity in Materials

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

Lodging
The downtown Omni hotel is 16 minutes (8 mi / 13 km) from our Texas A&M conference venue. An Omni code and registration link will be provided soon as separate hotel registration is required.

Conference Registration
Register here. Registration includes the Sunday reception, midweek excursion, attendance at all technical sessions, and transportation from the conference hotel to the meeting venue. The conference fee will be announced soon.

Travel Information
Corpus 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.

Key Dates - A detailed schedule as well as hotel registration and fee payment information will be posted soon.
December 2025 - Registration Opens
March 2026 - Registration Deadline
April 2026 - Acceptance Notification, Abstract Submission Deadline, Registration Fee Deadline

Abstracts
Information will be posted soon.

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.

Preliminary Schedule Highlights
Sunday: Welcome reception
Monday: Opening session in memory of Robert A. Guyer + technical sessions
Tuesday: Full day technical sessions; conference dinner in the evening
Wednesday: Morning sessions + afternoon excursion
Thursday-Friday: Technical sessions (Friday may be full or half day depending on submissions)
Saturday: Organizers’ recap and planning meeting

ICNEM '26 Organizing Committee
TJ Ulrich, LANL & TAMU (Co-Organizer)
Pablo Tarazaga, TAMU (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

Support
Texas A&M University System:
Nuclear Security Office
  TAMU Mechanical Engineering Department
TAMU-Corpus Christi
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Polytec, Inc.

Contact Information
Questions, suggestions? Contact TJ Ulrich.

Updated 27 December 2025

ICNEM ' 26 will feature a special introductory opening session in memory of Robert A. Guyer, honoring his deep love of teaching, his extraordinary ability to make physics come alive, and his lasting influence on how we understand and communicate the foundations of nonlinear elasticity.