mathematical modeling

The Summer School on Advances in Finite Element Methods will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 14-18 Jan 2013.
The website www.fesummerschool.co.za contains details such as registration, accommodation, lecturers and the schedule. 

The objective of this summer school is first, to provide the necessary background in the mathematics of finite elements, and second, to build on this background by addressing the topics of adaptivity and discontinuous Galerkin methods.

Equations are of central importance in all of science and engineering, but especially so in mechanics.

Even leaving aside algebraic equations, handbooks on PDEs alone list hundreds of equations. However, a few of these do stand out, either because they encapsulate some fundamental aspect of physics/science/engg., or because they serve as simpler prototypes for more complex situtations, or simply because they are so complex as to be fascinating by themselves. There might be other considerations too... But the fact is, some equations really do stand out as compared to others.

The published version may be accessed at

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251448926_Ductile_Fracture_by_V...

Since then, two other reviews were co-authored by me:

For Acta Materialia:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289140144_Failure_of_Metals_I_-...

And for IJF @ 50

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305694679_Ductile_failure_modeling

5 Lectureships and 5 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships in the EPSRC funded national Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS) 

Lectureships: £32,795 to £41,545