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This book presents the proceedings of the 9th symposium on continuum models and discrete systems. The aim of this and earlier symposia is to bring together scientists with different backgrounds, actively working on continuum theories of discrete mechanical and thermodynamical systems in the fields of mathematics, theoretical and applied mechanics, physics, material science and engineering, biology and chemistry. The reports presented, as a rule, are not devoted to specific numerical results, but rather try to join different languages, questions and methods developed in the wide range of scientific fields, and in this way to stimulate a wide interdisciplinary researches. With rare exception, the papers include the statement of the problem, the presentation of solution methods, and final analytical results without calculations. The proceedings are divided into eight parts, supplemented by extended abstracts of the works of young researchers presented in a special poster session. The first part is devoted to thermodynamics, transport theory and statistical mechanics. The contents include a wide range of themes, from the vortex lattice theory of superconductors to the research of snow cover characteristics, and from the studies of resonance systems to the modeling of grain sintering. The second part covers the continuum mechanics of complex fluids (in particular, suspensions) and deformable solids with microstructure and with some special properties (e.g., porous media and piezoelectrics). The continuum theories of living structures are presented in the third part. Here, the biological polymeric systems, and the properties of bone tissues and implants are considered. The next part is devoted to defect dynamics, waves, synergetics, solitons and coherent structures. The dislocations and plasticity models, and also their applications to the metals and polycrystalline materials are themes of the fifth part. The following part presents new developments in continuum theory and non-classical models. In particular, here should be noted the recent works on superconductors and quasicrystals. The fatigue and crack dynamics on different microlevels are studied in the seventh part, together with fractal structures and microstructural interaction processes. The presentation of researches on granular materials and interfacial phenomena concludes this volume.