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USACM Student Chapter Seminar: Simulating Contact-Rich Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems

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4th August 2026, 2:00 PM -3:00 PM (EDT)

Meeting ID: 824 6447 8256 | Passcode: 003801

 

Simulating Contact-Rich Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems

Teo Lara, Undergraduate (BS Mathematics& Physics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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USACM Student Chapter Seminar: Physical Mechanisms of Blast-induced Large Deformations in Brain-like Soft Matter

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31st July 2026, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (CDT)

Meeting ID: 824 6447 8256 | Passcode: 003801

 

Physical Mechanisms of Blast-induced Large Deformations in Brain-like Soft Matter

 

Dr. Enze Chen, Postdoctoral Researcher in Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Abstract

๐—–๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ โ€“ ๐—œ๐—–๐—ก๐—”๐—”๐—  ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ ๐—ฆ๐˜†๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜‚๐—บ

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The ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด!

We are pleased to invite researchers to contribute to our symposium at ๐—œ๐—–๐—ก๐—”๐—”๐—  ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ (๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑโ€“๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ, ๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป, ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ):

๐—ฃ๐—ต๐˜†๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜€-๐—œ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ก๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—”๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜†๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐— ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐˜†๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐˜†๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐˜€

This symposium aims to bring together researchers working at the intersection of ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด and ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜€, with particular emphasis on the development and application of data-driven methods for solving engineering and multiphysics problems.

Open PhD Position โ€“ Spring 2026 โ€“ Georgia Tech

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The Daedalus Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology (D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering) is recruiting a PhD student for Spring 2027.

Our group works at the intersection of fracture mechanics, experimental mechanics, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence. Current research directions include:

Paper on MechanicsArxiv by Akshay Pakhare, Naba Karan, and Pradeep Guduru: reading sodium storage in hard carbon through stress

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on

As a theoretician, I usually gravitate more towards papers of that kind, but the recently uploaded paper by Pakhare et. al. on MechanicsArxiv, caught my attention simply because it begs for some theoretical mechanics work to be done. 

Physics-informed neural networks for transient diffusion interface problems: Kolmogorovโ€“Arnold networks versus multilayer perceptrons

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Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) remain challenging for transient interface problems with discontinuous coefficients, sharp interfacial gradients, and multiple temporal scales. In this work, we develop a PINN framework for transient diffusion interface problems with physically consistent interface conditions and compare multilayer perceptron (MLP) architectures with several radial-basis-function Kolmogorovโ€“Arnold network (RBFโ€“KAN) variants.

Maxwell, Airy and Hill walk into a bar, here is the theorem they write

Submitted by hnassar@uh.edu on

The lemma of Hill (or of Hill-Mandel) is crucial to the consistent treatment of effective properties in the theory of composites. Building on various classical results (notably by Maxwell and Airy), I've recently applied the lemma sort of "out of context" to characterize (count really) the (infinitesimal) isometric deformations of periodic surfaces.