Ph.D. opportunity on Multiphysics modeling of cathode materials at KU Leuven and Umicore
Professors Martin Diehl and Nele Moelans (both KU Leuven) and Dr. Duancheng Ma (Umicore) are seeking a Ph.D. candidate to work with them on the multiphysics modeling of cathode materials.
Maximizing buckling load of metabeams via combinatorial optimization of microstructures
Design of mechanical metamaterials is typically realized by repeating microstructured building blocks or unit cells. Microstructures of these unit cells can be identical, whereas individual design of each cell and various combinations of unit cells definitely offer more freedoms and possibilities for combinatorial design of metamaterials. Unfortunately, this combinatorial design problem is prohibitively challenging, if not impossible, due mainly to its huge number of combinatorial cases.
Corrector operator to enhance accuracy and reliability of neural operator surrogates of nonlinear variational boundary-value problems
I am excited to announce our work (with Dr. Oden) on enhancing the accuracy of neural operators using the so-called corrector operator. This work is a culmination of our efforts in using goal-oriented a-posteriori error estimates in Bayesian inference in Jha and Oden (2022), JCP 470, 111575, and recently using a similar idea in Cao et al. (2023), JCP 486, 112104.
PhD position in adhesive soft contact mechanics - ERC funded group
Location: Polytechnic University of Bari, Department of Mechanics Mathematics and Management (DMMM), Via Orabona 4 - 70125 Bari – Italy
Job Type: Full Time
Deadline: 17 July 2023
PhD position in bioengineering - ERC funded research Group
Location: Polytechnic University of Bari, Department of Mechanics Mathematics and Management (DMMM), Via Orabona 4 - 70125 Bari – Italy
Job Type: Full Time
Deadline: 17 July 2023
Fully funded PhD positions in Soft Robotics in Stuttgart, Germany available from September 2023
I am looking for PhD students for my newly founded research group "Soft Robotics for Autonomous Systems" at the University of Stuttgart. The positions are fully funded and include German social security and health care benefits. More information can be found in the attached pdf.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Regularized Failure Models for Quasibrittle Materials, Czech Technical University in Prague
My colleague Milan Jirásek is opening a two-year postdoctoral position in developing new regularized models for predicting and understanding failure processes under general conditions.
Future Faculty Symposium in SES conference
The inaugural Future Faculty Symposium (FFS) will be part of the 60th Society of Engineering Science Annual Conference (SES 2023) at the University of Minnesota in October, please see attached flyer. The goal is to provide a venue for senior PhDs/Postdocs to showcase their reserach and facilitate recruiting dynamics.
Action principles for dissipative, non-holonomic Newtonian mechanics
A methodology for deriving dual variational principles for the classical Newtonian mechanics of mass points in the presence of applied forces, interaction forces, and constraints, all with a general dependence on particle velocities and positions, is presented. Methods for incorporating constraints are critically assessed. General theory, as well as explicitly worked out variational principles for a dissipative system (Lorenz) and a system with anholonomic constraints (Pars) are demonstrated. Conditions under which a (family of) dual Hamiltonian flows, as well as constants of motion, may be associated with a dissipative, and possibly constrained, primal system are specified.