Dear Colleagues, 

An exciting new research position for a Postdoctoral Research Associate is
now available in a project funded by the Australian Research Council, led by Professor Itai
Einav and Dr Luming
Shen. The project is to study fragmentation waves in granular materials,
applicable in geosciences, and in engineering problems of material mining,
petroleum processes, and pharmaceutical operations.

 PRL 110, 168101 (2003) http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i16/e168101

The 7th International Confeence on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives will take place from 14-18 September 2014, Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

We are inviting papers in the areas reflecting the current and future of TC4: Polymers, Application of fracture mechanics, Adhesives, composites.

Abscract submission page now open. For more information, go to http://www.esistc4conference.com 

Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski (University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign) will give a short course on Mechanics of Random and
Fractal Materials and Structures at the EMI 2013 Conference on August 4 at Northwestern

Call for Applications: Assistant Professor in Metallurgy at Centre des Matériaux, MINES ParisTech

 The Centre des Matériaux is located in Evry (35 km south from Paris) and is a research laboratory of

Mines Paris Tech in association with CNRS (UMR 7633). It employs about 200 persons including 29 staff

researchers, 50 technicians and engineers, 86 PhD students and 14 post-docs. Research fields include

microstructural characterization, mechanical testing and numerical simulations in mechanics, metallurgy

Baoxing Xu and Xi Chen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 156103(2013) and the accompanying Physics Focus: Pushing a fullerene through a nantube