I would like to bring to your attention the mini-symposium entitled "Computational Mechanics of Semi-flexible Biopolymer Networks" at the 11th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics to be held at the University of Minnesota.

We offer:

•a 3 year post-graduate scholarships for doctoral studies beginning a.s.a.p.

•interesting research work in interdisciplinary international teams

see http://www.grk1554.ovgu.de/



For the candidates:



- excellent engineering students with a good background in continuum mechanics.

- good knowledge of English required

2 Master and PhD student positions are available at Monash University, Sunway Campus in Malaysia on the following areas: 

1. Polymer nanocomposites (Preparation and modeling) (PhD).

2. Electrospinning of nanofibers(Master).

Interested candidates please send  their CV  to yliu [at] clarkson.edu (pooria[dot]pasbakhsh[at]eng[dot]monash[dot]edu[dot]my )

F.Xu, W. Lu and Y. Zhu, ACS Nano, 2011, 5 (1), pp 672–678.

An interview by ACS Nano (Episode 42: January 2011),

http://pubs.acs.org/page/ancac3/audio/index.html

A few vacant positions for Scientists and Senior Scientists are available at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*Star, Singapore.

Responsibilities: Perform industry R&D projects, and work with industry partners to develop research programs.

Qualifications:  

Ph.D in Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Applied Physics.  

Symposium II :

Computational Science of Transport Phenomena in Materials: Methods and Applications

Chair

• Yong-Wei ZHANG, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

Co-Chairs

Dear Colleagues,

The session organizers would like to invite researchers to contribute their work for a special session on “Impact Modeling of Composites” for the Sixth M.I.T.  Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics to be held in June 2011 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference, McMAT-2011    (31 May ~ 2 June 2011, Chicago, IL)

Symposium 7: Low Dimensional Carbon NanoMaterials: Properties and Applications

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Jan. 2011

5th International Symposium on Defect and Material Mechanics, Seville (Spain), from June 27 to July 1, 2011.

Scientific Committee: 

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring to your notice the mini-symposium on "Multi-scale modeling in contact mechanics" at the 11th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (http://usnccm.org/). The conference will be held at Minneapolis, Minnesota from July 25-29, 2011.