The advertised research position is for a joint PhD degree in Medical Engineering involving laboratory and clinical studies in both Australia (Queensland University of Technology) and Finland (University of Eastern Finland), with possibility for double PhD degree awarded from both institutions. The research project involves application of near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy for non-destructive characterization and evaluation of joint connective tissues, including articular cartilage and meniscus.

Dear Colleagues,

we would like to draw your attention to the minisymposium entitled 'MS 13: Mechanics of Soft Materials and Structures', which we are organizing as part of the EMI 2015 Conference (Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference) to be held in Stanford, United States, June 16-19 2015.

I wonder how important the initial set up for a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulation is. Is the initial particle distribution somehow significant for the final result? How to control particle density and distribution along problem domain? What are the important factors inherent to the initial set up? Having control over the initial set up is going against the philosophy of this method?

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to the following minisymposium taking place as part of the EMI conference in Stanford (June 16-19, 2015)

MS 54: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Fracture and Fragmentation Processes

Ahmed Elbanna*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Glaucio Paulino, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

As part of the 1st Pan-American Congress on Computational Mechanics (April 27-29, 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina), Marino Arroyo and I are organizing a minisymposium - ``Smooth Approximations on Unstructured Nodal Discretizations: Finite Elements, Spline-based Techniques and Meshfree.'' The deadline for abstract submissions is November 20, 2014.

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
For a complete position announcement including the application instructions please visit: http://umass.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=C2CE0…

The aim of the Conference is to provide an international forum for researchers, practitioners and for all who are converned with modern computational techniques and applicaitons in the field of contact and interface mechanics.

Prospective Speakers are invited by the organizing committee, Peter Wriggers and Giorgio Zavarise, to submit contributions until February. 2, 2015.

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For the 8th time, Croatian Society of Mechanics is organizing its international congress, which will be this time held in Opatija, Croatia, from 29 September to 2 October 2015. International Congress of the Croatian Society of Mechanics is triennial meeting established for the mutual exchange of scientific and technical information in the domain of Mechanics with a focus not only to the Central Europe but also beyond this region.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Multi-Scale Musculoskeletal Modeling and Applied Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

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I recently took over as the ESIS blog editor. Being the second in this baton relay, I will do my best to live up to the good reader expectations that have been established by my precursor, who is also one of the instigators of the blog, Wolfgang Brocks.