Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the symposium (351) on "Nonlinear Mechanics of Polymer Network: Elasticity, Inelasticity, and Temporal Evolution" at the 2018 U.S. National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics which will be held at Northwestern University (Chicago IL, USA) on June 4-9, 2018. You can find a description of the symposium and the conference website using this link.

Dear Colleagues, 

Dr. Dbakar Datta and I are co-organizing a session titled “Mechanics and Physics of 2D Crystalline Materials” (Track #1203) for the upcoming WCCM 2018 conference in New York City.

We would like to cordially invite you to submit an abstract to our session. The topics of this symposium include (but not limited to) the following:

18th US National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) will be held in Chicago, Illinion, on Jun 4 to 9 2018. USNC/TAM is held every four years. http://sites.northwestern.edu/usnctam2018/

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our symposium titled “362 Failure and Damage in Soft Materials: From Instabilies to Cracking” as part of the 18^th U.S. National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, June 4-9, 2018).

The deadline for abstract submission is November 10, 2017.

Present your research at ICoBT2018, 26-29 September 2018, Montreal, Canada. Oral and poster abstracts are invited on the conference topics and should be submitted using the online submission system by 20 April 2018.

Kejie Zhao, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Skin is the largest organ of the human body, and it offers a diagnostic interface rich with vital biological signals from the inner organs, blood vessels, muscles, and dermis/epidermis. Soft, flexible, and stretchable electronic devices provide a novel platform to interface with soft tissues for robotic feedback and control, regenerative medicine, and continuous health monitoring.

We invite applications for a research scientist to work in the area of applied mechanics and materials at A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (A*STAR IHPC).

Dear Colleagues - the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania is searching for tenure-track faculty. Please feel free to circulate the attached ad to any interested parties. The link to apply can be found here: http://www.me.upenn.edu/faculty-staff/

sincerely yours,

Rob Carpick 

Prof. Jie Yin of Temple University has been selected as the recipient of the 2017 EML Young Investigator Award for his paper "Design of cut unit geometry in hierarchical kirigami-based auxetic metamaterials for high stretchability and compressibility" in EML 12, pp77-85 (2017). Congratulations!