IASS-IACM 2008 Session: Nano- and Micro-scale Structures -- Session Organizers: Slava KRYLOV (Tel Aviv Univ.), Alan ZEHNDER (Cornell Univ.) -- Plenary Lecture: Abstract, Slides and Video: "Nanomechanical resonators and nanofluidic systems" by Harold G. CRAIGHEAD (Cornell University) -- Keynote Lecture: "An atomistic-continuum elastic rod model of carbon nanotubes" by Karthick CHANDRASEKER, Subrata MUKHERJEE (Cornell University) -- "A novel shift-loaded blister test to characterize the multi-scale mechanical properties and adhesion-delamination behaviors of biomembranes" by Scott E. JULIEN (Northeastern University), Kuo-Kang LIU (Keele University), Kai-tak WAN (Northeastern University) -- "Hybrid sensing procedure for mass and position detection with nano and macro resonant cantilevers" by Nicolae LOBONTIU (University of Alaska Anchorage), Iulian LUPEA, Rob ILIC, Harold G. CRAIGHEAD (Cornell University) -- "Stability analysis of a curved microbeam actuated by a distributed electrostatic force" by Slava KRYLOV (Tel Aviv University), Bojan R. ILIC (Cornell University), David SCHREIBER, Shimon SERETENSKY (Tel Aviv University), Harold G. CRAIGHEAD (Cornell University) -- Keynote Lecture: "On the accuracy of compliant mechanical MEMS/NEMS lumped-parameter modeling" by Nicolae LOBONTIU (University of Alaska Anchorage) -- "The response of a cantilever microbeam with a plate attached to its tip to mechanical shock" by Hassen OUAKAD (Binghamton University), Haider N. ARAFAT (Cessna Aircraft Company), Mohammad I. YOUNIS (Binghamton University) -- "Switch triggered by mass threshold" by Mohammad I. YOUNIS , Fadi M. AL SALEEM (Binghamton University) -- "Adhesion of freestanding beams and its application to micro- and nano-structures" by Kai-tak WAN (Northeastern University) -- "Modeling and dynamics of coupled dome-shaped micromechanical oscillators" by Tuhin SAHAI, Alan ZEHNDER (Cornell University) -- "Fully Lagrangian dynamics of thin MEMS beam" by Ranajay GHOSH , Subrata MUKHERJEE (Cornell University)