The Chronicle of Higher Education just published its ranking of all programs (fields) of universities in the States.
http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity
This ranking is based on the productivity (publications, citations, grants and awards, nothing else), rather than people perceptions (department head's evaluations) as US News and World Report.
Of course one should never take any ranking very seriously, but it is interesting to take a look at this website.
Two four-year doctoral fellowships at the LaCàN Research group (http://www-lacan.upc.es/), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Barcelona, Spain).
These two fellowships, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education ("beca FPI"), coverfull tuition, a monthly stipend and provide funds for short international research stays. The starting date is expected in the Summer-Fall 2008.
Call for papers
Minisymposium on
“Multiscale Simulations for Composite Materials and Mechanical Systems”(ID-110)
on the
8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM8)
and the
5th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2008)
to be held at the Lido Island in Venice (Italy) on 30 June - 4 July 2008
Dear Colleagues,
News from the CNN.com/Technology: Digital library surpasses initial goal of 1 million books
Dear colleagues,
I would like to share the following paper, in press in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. It can be found at the publisher's web at
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2007.10.001
A preprint is also attached below.
Abstract
In a previous post, Learning to be a PhD advisor, I wrote about learning to do my job from students. Over the years, I have also learned from writings of other scientists on doing research, its dynamics: competition, despair, and exhilaration... Here is a small sample that occurs to me this morning.
Dear all,
Do you have any reference about the theory of plasticity? Especially about flow theory and von Mises yield criterion?
For example if I have an effective stress - plastic strain relationship, and I after yielding, I increase my strain again, how can I obtain the increment of the plastic strain and the stress deviator tensor?
Thanks a lot.
Best,
Ray
POSITION:
The Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level for candidates with research experience or strong interest in cell/tissue biomechanics (mammalian or plant), nanodevices, bioMEMS/NEMS, nanomechanics/materials/manufacturing/fluidics, biomaterials, and bionanomechanics. Exceptional candidates could be considered for a higher rank.
QUALIFICATIONS:
The American Academy of Mechanics is pleased to announce that
Jacob Fish, the Rosalind and John J. Redfern Chaired Professor of Engineering at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, Professor of
Mechanical Science & Engineering at University of Illinois have both been
elected as Fellows of the Academy. They will be presented with certificates
honoring their new status at the first AAM Summer Conference to be held from
