Preface; In Honor of Professor Yih-Hsing Pao's 80th Birthday; Table of Contents; Part I: Waves in General; Existence of Exceptional Body Waves and Subsonic Surface Waves in Monoclinic and Orthotropic Materials, by T. C. T. Ting; Deformation Waves in Microstructured Materials: Theory and Numerics, by Jüri Engelbrecht, Arkadi Berezovski and Mihhail Berezovski; Part II: Waves and NDE; Generation and Propagation of Anti-Plane Surface Waves on a Body with Depth-Dependent Properties, by Jan D. Achenbach and Oluwaseyi Balogun; Resonance Ultrasound Microscopy for Imaging Young's Modulus of Solids, by Masahiko Hirao and Hirotsugu Ogi; Non-Classical Nonlinearity in Solids for Defect-Selective Imaging and NDE, by Igor Solodov; Counterpropagating Ultrasonic Waves for Inhomogeneous Materials Characterization, by Arvi Ravasoo; Ultrasonic Characterization of the Mechanical Properties of Thin Films and Coatings, by Sridhar Krishnaswamy; Evaluation of Corrosion in Carbon Steel Pipes by Laser-Generated Guided Wave, by Do-Youn Kim, Joon-Hyun Lee, Younho Cho, Jaesun Lee and Jan D. Achenbach; Measurement of Surface and Lamb Waves with Application on Acoustic Sensing and Non-Destructive Evaluation, by Yung-Chun Lee, Shi Hoa Kuo and Cheng-Hsien Chung; Part III: Phononic Crystals; Guided Elastic Waves at Periodically Structured Surfaces and Interfaces, by A. G. Every and A. A. Maznev; Acoustic Cloaking by Metafluids, by José Sánchez-Dehesa and Daniel Torrent; Band Structure and Phonon Transport in a Phononic Crystal Made of a Periodic Array of Dots on a Membrane, by B. Djafari Rouhani, Y. Pennec and H. Larabi; Material Parameters Determining the Band Gaps of Solid-Solid Phononic Crystals, by Xiao-Zhou Zhou, Yue-Sheng Wang and Chuanzeng Zhang; Behavior of Wave Motion in an Acoustic Metamaterial with Anisotropic Mass Density, by C. T. Sun and H. H. Huang; Complex Band Structure of Phononic Crystals and the Diffraction Problem, by Vincent Laude, Younes Achaoui, SarahBenchabane and Abdelkrim Khelif; Versatile Phononic Slabs, by I. E. Psarobas; Omnidirectional Band Gap Mirror for Surface Acoustic Wave, by Abdelkrim Khelif, Abdelkrim Choujaa, Sarah Benchabane and Vincent Laude; Band Structure of Three-Dimensional Phononic Crystals with an Opal Structure, by Yukihiro Tanaka, Shin-ichiro Tamura and Takuro Okada; Bandgap Characteristics of a 3D Phononic Meta Material Composed of Ordered Quantum Dots, by Yu-Chieh Wen, Tzu-Ming Liu, Christian Dais, Detlev Grützmacher, Tzung-Te Chen, Yang-Fang Chen, Jin-Wei Shi and Chi-Kuang Sun; Analytical and Experimental Analysis of Bandgaps in Nonlinear One Dimensional Periodic Structures, by Nicholas Boechler, Chiara Daraio, Raj K Narisetti, M. Ruzzene and M. J. Leamy; Lamb Waves in Phononic-Crystal Plates: Numerical Studies and Experiments, by Tsung-Tsong Wu, Jin-Chen Hsu and Jia-Hong Sun; Part IV: Wave Electronics; Phase-Sensitive and Fast-Scanning Laser Probe System for RF SAW/BAW Devices, by Ken-ya Hashimoto, Nan Wu, Keisuke Kashiwa, Tatsuya Omori, Masatsune Yamaguchi, Osamu Takano, Sakae Meguro, Naoki Kasai and Koichi Akahane; A Two-Dimensional Analysis of Surface Acoustic Waves in Finite Piezoelectric Plates, by Ji Wang, Rongxing Wu and Jianke Du; Wireless Drive of Piezoelectric Components, by Junhui Hu and Satyanarayan Bhuyan; Novel High Frequency, Temperature Stable, Quartz Gyroscopes, by Yook-Kong Yong and Jianke Du; COM Model Characterization for RF SAW Devices, by Ben Abbott, Kevin Gamble, Natalya Naumenko, Svetlana Malocha and Marc Solal; Propagation Characteristics of Surface Acoustic Wave and Properties of Gas Sensors on Quartz, by Chi-Yen Shen, Cheng-Liang Hsu, Ming-Yau Su, Rume-Tze Tsai and Shih-Han Wang; Three Dimensional Displacement Measurement of Transient Elastic Wave Propagation Using a Multidimensional Point-Wise Fiber Bragg Grating Displacement Sensor System, by Kuo-Chih Chuang and Chien-Ching Ma; Part V: Seminar Section; Band Structure Calculations by Modal