The 7th International Conference on Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures (CIMS2016) will be held 7-8 November 2016 in Baltimore Maryland and hosted by Conference Chair Benjamin W. Schafer, Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Director of the Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium, North American Editor of the Thin-walled Structures journal, and Chair of the Structural Stability Research Council. Abstracts are due by 31 December 2015 and full details are at the conference website www.ce.jhu.edu/cims2016. The International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures will immediately follow CIMS2016, at the same location, more information here.