I thought this might be of interest for some imechanicans, particularly those who work on composites (anisotropic and/or heterogeneous materials). Sorry if it sounds a bit infomercial. 

Imagine a youtube-like environment for you to deploy a cloud version of your code without any change to your original code. Your research code can be immediately shared with the global community. 

open position: Full Professorship on Computational Continuum Mechanics at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany

ParisTech Doctoral Institute and ParisTech local branch in China have launched a coordinated recruitment procedure in the framework of an agreement with the China Scholarship Council (CSC). This program is open to highly qualified Chinese students interested in carrying on doctoral training at ParisTech with financial support of the CSC.

http://paristech-china.com/content/phd-grant-china-scholarship-council

Applied Mechanics Division Banquet, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, November 18th, 2014.

Now I can say whatever I like in my Timoshenko Lecture and it won’t matter – because you will only remember Ken Liechti playing the bagpipes and, perhaps, the kilts.  Thank you Ken.

Fellow iMechanicians,

the deadline for submission for the next European Solid Mechanics Conference has been extended to the 30th November.

The conference will be the "place-to-be" next year in the Solid Mechanics community, with a truly outstanding line-up for the plenary lectures.

In particular, I am co-organizing with Nicola Pugno a mini-symposium on Micro and Nano Mechanics

http://www.esmc2015.org/_medien/_content/pdf/NicolaPugno_EttoreBarbieri…

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Dear Colleagues:

We are organizing a symposium titled "To Yield or Not to Yield: Multiscale Perspectives in Plasticity and Failure of Materials" at the 2015 Mach conference, which will be held in Annapolis, MD, USA during April 8-10, 2015.  We cordially invite you to participate in the 2015 Mach Conference by giving a talk in our symposium.

The attached notes are written for a course on plasticity.  When I update the notes, I will post a link on my twitter account:  https://twitter.com/zhigangsuo.