IASS-IACM 2008 Session: Advances in the Optimization and Form-finding of Tensegrity Structures Session Organizer: Gunnar TIBERT (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology) -- Keynote Lecture: "Optimal tensegrity structures in bending" by Robert SKELTON, Mauricio de OLIVEIRA (University of California, San Diego) -- "Reciprocal diagrams and stress control of tensegrity systems" by Andrea MICHELETTI (University of Rome "Tor Vergata") -- "Bending-stiff tensegrity masts: Do they exist?" by Gunnar TIBERT (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology) -- "A tensegrity catalogue using point group theory" by R. PANDIA RAJ, Simon D. GUEST (University of Cambridge) -- "Form finding analysis of tensegrity membrane structures based on variational method" by Mizuki SHIGEMATSU, Masato TANAKA, Hirohisa NOGUCHI (Keio University) -- "Tensegrity architecture calculation of the cellular cytoskeleton" by Bernard MAURIN, Patrick CANADAS, Rene MOTRO (Universite Montpellier 2)