Post-Doc Position: Multiscale Simulations of Pattern Formation in Mixed Crystals

As a journal editor, I am often surprised by some of the suggestions authors make for potential reviewers.  In some cases the suggestions are not very good, and on occasion authors do not suggest reviewers at all.  Some authors will even state explicitly that they cannot think of any reviewers, which is really surprising.   

Postdoctoral Position in Solid Mechanics

in Mechanical Engineering at University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea

Advisor: Prof. Seungtae Choi, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulsan

Location: Ulsan City, Republic of Korea

Description: In the Laboratory for Functional Materials and Applied Mechanics of University of Ulsan, one

or two postdoctoral positions are available for the following research subjects:

(1) Development of Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Sensors,

 www.icem16.org

The 16^th in a series of conferences, starting in Delft in 1959 and following on from the last conference in Porto in 2012 this is the premier event to showcase novel and innovative research in Experimental Mechanics. The conference will take place in Cambridge with the accommodation at Robinson College and the technical sessions at both Robinson and the West Road Concert Hall.

Many people from mechnaics community will receive prestigious awards from ASME this year.

Ted Belytschko will receive the ASME Honorary Membership;

Wei Cai will receive the Tom Hughes Young Investigator Medal;

T.W. Chou will receive the Nadai Medal;

Richard Christensen will receive the Timoshenko Medal;

Normal Fleck will receive the Koiter Medal;

Yonggang Huang will receive the Drucker Medal;

Sia Nemat-Nasser will receive the ASME Medal;

Ting Zhu and Vicky Nguyen will receive the Sia Nemat-Nasser early career medal.

The job link is:

http://careers.slb.com/experiencedprofessionals/jobaddetail.aspx?id=1861

 Junfeng Xiao and Xi Chen, Journal of Royal Society Interface. 2013, 10(85).  http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0399

Faculty Positions are available in Department of Engineering Mechanics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a Symposium on "Advanced Nano/Biosystem: Design, Fabrication and Characterization" to be held in Urbana, Illinois, USA, September 25 to 27, 2013. The primary objective of the symposium is to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion on recent advances in the rapidly evolving fields of nano/biomaterial design, fabrication and characterization among physics, chemistry, biology, mechanics, and material science.