Comments on the Aims of the Workshop

Abstract

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), in collaboration with the National Science Foundation CNSF), is pleased to sponsor this important workshop on the “Theoretical Foundation for Large-Scale Computations of Non-Linear Material Behavior.” The research-support activities of both DARPA and NSF have long represented a significant commitment to the advance of science and technology. DARPA supports basic and applied research and development work in a wide range of technical areas for eventual application to problems related to the national defense. The NSF has an even broader charter in overseeing much fundamental research in many diverse fields of science and engineering. It seems most appropriate, therefore, that an academic setting has been selected for this forum, and we wish to thank our hosts and the supporting staff at Northwestern University for their hospitality and organizational efforts that have made this meeting possible.