This unique event will bring together researchers from around the world to discuss the latest advances in theoretical, computational, experimental, and applied contact mechanics.

The symposium offers a broad and inclusive program designed to foster interaction and collaboration across the diverse communities engaged in contact mechanics. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Models, friction laws, wear, tribological modeling, cohesive zone models, rolling;
• Emerging computational approaches: methods, algorithms, and numerical analysis;
• Mathematical analysis of contact problems;
• Dynamic contact problems and instabilities;
• Nano- and micromechanics of contact; multiscale methods;
• Multiphysics and thermomechanical coupling;
• Contact in granular materials and rigid body systems;
• Applications in mechanical and civil engineering, biomechanics, and geomechanics;
• Experimental investigations in contact mechanics.

New in this edition:

• Contact modeling in computer graphics and animation;
• High-performance computing (HPC) strategies for large-scale contact problems.

True to the CMIS tradition, the venue has been carefully selected to provide a full board accommodation in a stimulating environment for scientific exchange and in-depth discussions. The Symposium will be held at the Continental Parkhotel which is a historic hotel in Lugano, built in stages between 1870 and 1906 by the Hirth-Wyss family and later by Sir Johann Helmsauer.