We are delighted to invite you to submit your contribution to ISDMM11. The conference will take place in Seville, Spain, June 27 – July 1st 2011.

The Irish Research Council (http://www.ircset.ie/tabid/64/default.aspx) has a funding scheme for postdoctoral researchers. I am seeking someone to submit an application to IRCSET to obtain funding to work within my group, in Modelling of CNT-based nanocomposites. The chances of success are high for candidates with a good research record. The deadline for applications is December 8th.

Springer has just published the second edition of my book
`Intermediate Mechanics of Materials'. The book covers a selection of topics appropriate to a second course in mechanics of materials. Many books with titles like 'Advanced Mechanics of Materials' are pitched at a much higher level than most introductory courses and this can present a significant barrier to undergraduate students. My intention in this book is to make this transition smoother by discussing simple examples before introducing general principles and by restricting the mathematical level to topics that can be treated using ordinary differential equations rather than PDEs.

Silicon can host a large amount of lithium, making it a promising electrode for high-capacity lithium-ion batteries.  Upon absorbing lithium, silicon swells several times its volume; the deformation often induces large stresses and pulverizes silicon.

Dear Colleagues,

Hello,

My name is Nguyen Vinh Phu, a PhD student at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. I have been working with Prof. Bert Sluys on a project named "Coarse graining of failure in heterogeneous solids" since July 2007. I am finishing my work and therefore seeking for a postdoctoral position starting after July 2011.

My expertise in computational solid mechanics includes

(1) Finite elements, extended finite elements and meshless methods.

The Departement of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University

is seeking to fill two positions this year. One position is in the area of

aerospace materials. Details about the position and the application process may be found in the attached file.



As part of its Vision 2020, developed under the leadership of former President

Robert Gates, Texas A&M University started a few years ago an

unprecedented hiring initiative. This has lead to over 400 new positions

Open Postdoctoral Position in In-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

This conference will take place in Hawai'i, USA, 11-14 December 2011

 Themes covered will include: 

• Natural, biologically inspired and biomimetic materials• Hard (e.g. bone, teeth, metals, ceramics) and soft (e.g.cartilage, tendon, silk, polymers) tissues and materials• Mechanobiology, regenerative medicine and tissue engineering• Multiscale modelling and simulation of mechanical properties• Multiscale experimental characterization of biological tissues, including AFM, nanoindentation, optical tweezers

The postdoctoral researcher will develop three-dimensional, network-like
models for fluid displacement in low permeability porous media. Such
porous materials involve multiple relevant length scales (e.g. micro-fractures
connected to the adjacent matrix) and models to date are not representative.

This research-only position will be supervised by Drs. Maša
Prodanović and Steven L. Bryant from Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.

For more information and application procedure, please visit