The 16th in a series of conferences, starting in Delft in 1959 and following on from the last conference in Porto in 2012 this is the premier event to showcase novel and innovative research in Experimental Mechanics. The conference will take place in Cambridge with the accommodation at Robinson College and the technical sessions at both Robinson and the West Road Concert Hall.
Many people from mechnaics community will receive prestigious awards from ASME this year.
Ted Belytschko will receive the ASME Honorary Membership;
Wei Cai will receive the Tom Hughes Young Investigator Medal;
T.W. Chou will receive the Nadai Medal;
Richard Christensen will receive the Timoshenko Medal;
Normal Fleck will receive the Koiter Medal;
Yonggang Huang will receive the Drucker Medal;
Sia Nemat-Nasser will receive the ASME Medal;
Ting Zhu and Vicky Nguyen will receive the Sia Nemat-Nasser early career medal.
Junfeng Xiao and Xi Chen, Journal of Royal Society Interface. 2013, 10(85). http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0399
Faculty Positions are available in Department of Engineering Mechanics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a Symposium on "Advanced Nano/Biosystem: Design, Fabrication and Characterization" to be held in Urbana, Illinois, USA, September 25 to 27, 2013. The primary objective of the symposium is to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion on recent advances in the rapidly evolving fields of nano/biomaterial design, fabrication and characterization among physics, chemistry, biology, mechanics, and material science.
At the Division of Mechanics
of Functional Materials in the institute of Materials Science, TU Darmstadt the
following research position is to be filled as soon as possible:
Research position (E 13 TV – TU
Darmstadt), Doctoral Candidate/Postdoc
The position is first
scheduled for three years in the case of doctoral candidate and two years in
the case of Postdoc (an extension is possible).
Tasks and Opportunities
Stephen Juhasz died on 19 June 2013 at the age of 99. The following brief description of Juhasz's career was provided by Norm Abramson.
Juhasz received his Dip. Ing. From Budapest Technical University in 1936; Teknologie Licensiate (doctorate) from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 1951; and an Honorary Doctorate of engineering from Budapest Technical University in 1989.
