At the Annual IASS Conference, the SMG invites you to Show, Touch, and Tell. Please bring physical models to inspire. The exposition will give visitors not only the ability to explore the models visually but also allow them to touch and feel the structural or motion behavior of the prototypes.
This new format will be open to all participants, from young PhD candidates to senior researchers with years of experience. The idea is to enable researchers to share their fascination with a specific model. It is open to the contributor to present a phenomenon they would like to share for discussion that presents an open problem or a fascinating effect, or the entire PhD in a single artifact.
In recent years, lectures at SMG special sessions at IASS Conferences were often supported by models that the presenters brought with them. This often led to intense and inspiring discussions about the models after the sessions, which were abruptly halted by the start of the next session. This moment of joyful experiences and surprising insights into a certain topic that can often be transported to a physical model more easily than through a 15-minute talk is a true pleasure for everyone. Therefore, the Organizers of the SMG decided to try a new formalized format at this year's conference in Zurich 2024.
SMG incubates novel ideas for structures connected through forms, spanning engineering, computation, art, biology, and mathematics.
We are interested in finding novel questions and solving problems.
Often, these important ideas come from making prototypes, touching them, and discussing them in front of the models.
In particular, this event welcomes newcomers, people from different backgrounds, students, and young researchers.
We are inviting you to participate in the SMG Show, Touch and Tell.
Submission Due: July 15th, 2026 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iass2026iwss2026
Notification: July 30th 2026
IASS 2026: September 14th -- 18th