Comments made at a symposium to celebrate Choon Fong Shih on the occasion of his 70th birthday, held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 200 Beacon Street, MA

Professor Da Hsuan Feng, Director of Global Affairs and Special Advisor to Rector, University of Macau

Our group has postdoctoral position openings supported by Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)-Digital Manufacturing and Design (DManD) Centre for the projects of design and fabrication of soft robotics, and nano/micro fabrication.

We are seeking self-motivated postdoctoral researchers with a strong background on solid mechanics and FEA simulation, and hands-on experience in advanced manufacturing, 3D/4D printing, material preparation and characterization.

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship on PERIDYNAMIC MODELLING in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde under the supervision of Dr Julia Race and Dr Selda Oterkus.

• This work formulates an elasto-viscoplastic model at finite strains.
• A particularly efficient numerical integration algorithm is presented.
• A closed-form analytical expression is derived for the consistent tangent operator.
• The non-linear behaviour of polymers is captured in the numerical examples.
• Quadratic rate of convergence is successfully achieved.

doi:10.1016/j.compstruc.2016.01.002

A Postdoctoral Fellowship is available at The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, in the area of Computational Brain Biomechanics under accelerative conditions. The goals include modeling the dynamic response of the brain and modeling subject-to-subject variability. The approach will develop computational head model using finite element method, considering advanced mathematical and computational techniques and up-to-date mechanics-based understanding of the brain biomechanics.

A Symposium to celebrate Choon Fong Shih on the occasion of his 70th birthday

Group photo I, Group photo II

11 May 2016, 5pm-7pm.  Reception at the Harvard Faculty Club (20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138)

12 May 2016, Symposium at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (taxi entrance at 200 Beacon Street, Somerville, MA).

8:00-8:30  Buffet breakfast

The Rock Mechanics group at the laboratoire de Géologie of Ecole Normale Supérieure, in Paris France, is opening the following three positions:

Matteo Pezzulla, Gabriel P. Smith, Paola Nardinocchi, and Douglas P. Holmes, Soft Matter, 12, 4435-4442, (2016).

The International 2016 call for PhD applications at IMT Lucca (Italy) is now open!

Applicants may apply online at:

https://www.imtlucca.it/phd/prospective/admission

For people interested in computational mechanics, please select the CSSE Track and specify MUSAM as the research unit to be enrolled in.