INRIA (the French national institute for research in computer science and control) has currently eight centres, and the Opale Project-Team is primarily located in the Sophia Antipolis Centre, near the city of Antibes. Our research focuses on functional and numerical analysis, and numerical simulation, with a special emphasis on optimization in science and engineering (compressible aerodynamics, electromagnetics, structural design, etc) with strong links with industry.

Professor Choon Fong Shih, President, National University of Singapore; Founding President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

For lasting contributions to mechanics, and for building bridges between disciplines and between nations

An Immediate vacancy exists for high calibre  postdoctoral fellows with interest in multiscale computational nanomechanics, nano-modified composites,  testing and validation. Specifically, we are interested in determining the influence of nanofillers on polymer composites. Candidates should expect excellent facilities, good salaries and exceptional working conditions.

Sia Nemat-Nasser, Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials, The University of California, San Diego

For fundamental theoretical and experimental contributions in: dynamic stability; deformation and failure modes of materials; nano-electro-chemo-mechanical characterization and modeling of ionic polymer metal composites; and composites with integrated tuned electromagnetic functionality, self-healing, and self-sensing.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials Track at 2009 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics,



June 1-3, 2009 Albuquerque, NM



Abstract Deadline: October 16th, 2008



Sponsored by: The SEM Dynamic Behavior of Materials Technical Division



Organized by: Kathryn A. Dannemann (Chair), Southwest Research Institute;

Research:

On behalf of Imperial College Press, World Scientific Publishing Co. (Singapore) and the International Journal of Applied Mechanics (IJAM), I would like to invite you to submit an article for our forthcoming journal, which will be launched in March 2009.  Given your expertise in Mechanics, your contribution to the inaugural issues of IJAM would be most desirable in our effort to make IJAM a leading journal in its subject area.

ASCE, ASME and SES will hold their Joint Conference on Mechanics and Materials on June 24-27, 2009 in Blacksburg, VA.  The conference will be chaired by Dr. Ishwar K. Puri, Department Head, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech. The conference web site provides details, including an invitation to submit symposium and organized session proposals, key dates, instructions for the submission of abstracts and registration information.

For those interested in a classical subject like contact mechanics, here are a couple of recent papers published in August.  One is an extension of the Greenwood Williamson theory of rough contact, and the other is a linear perturbation solution of the classical Carter rolling contact problem for a rolling cylinder, when the surface is corrugated and hence there are oscillations in both normal and tangential loads.

Richard D. James, Russell J. Penrose Professor, University of Minnesota

For pioneering the modern vision of phase transformations and materials instabilities in solids.