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Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS 2014); held at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, February 3-5, 2014

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contact mechanics




Dear Colleague:

 

Please see attached for the first announcement for Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS 2014); the next conference following in a series of meetings gathering engineers, mathematicians, physical scientists, and others concerned with analytical, experimental and computational treatment of interface mechanics.   Full details about coverage are described in the attached announcement; the meeting will be held at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 3-5, 2014.

 

Is wear law really Archard's law (1953), or Reye's law (1860) ???

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research
tribology

In 1860 the mathematician and geometer Reye proposed a simple and elegant theory for explaining the consumption of a solid body when it slides with friction on a rough surface [8]. Reye’s model became very popular in Europe (in Italy was promulgated by Panetti [7]), and it is still taught in university courses of applied mechanics. But, strangely enough, this theory has been totally ignored in English and American literature.  Why? A paper from 2001 by Villaggio is interesting to read today.


megagrants in russia! who whould join me in preparing one application?

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research
megagrants

Dear colleagues!

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation has opened a call forapplications for the Russian Federation Government support of scientific research, carried outunder the supervision of leading researchers in Russian higher education institutions, research organizations of state academies of sciences and state research centers of the Russian Federation.

International Workshop and School  New Methods of Numerical Simulation and Measurement in Tribology Sandanski, Bulgaria, October

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Dear Mechanician

 

please find enclosed the announcement of the Workshop in Sandanski.



One can find it also on the cite:http://wp1119223.server-he.de/Sandanski2013.html



Please fill the registration form (enclosed)

 

URGENT: phd position in the group of Prof Bigoni (Trento, Italy) with possible sharing with us in PoliBA

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research
phd offer

 

I received this letter from Prof Davide Bigoni

 
Marie Curie PhD position at University of Trento (Italy): deadline September 15

 
It is a top opportunity in Italy, the leading group in Italy in elasticity, plasticity and nonlinear elasticity. A very active university and town. 

I expect many applications.

 prof. MC

FOR A SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE UNIVERSITY

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opinion
education
technology
role of universities
equal opportunities
poverty



Given the complexity of present and
future global challenges, it is the university´s social responsibility
to contribute to society by understanding the full extent of its needs
and current and future problems, and to prepare it to deal with them
effectively and efficiently (CMES, 2009)1. In this sense, due to its
ability to take the lead in matters of knowledge creation, promotion and
dissemination, the university becomes the ultimate guidance governments
possess in their quest to find solutions to inequality and exclusion.

I HAVE A REGIONAL UNIVERSITY DREAM --- a speech to the candidates to Rector of Politecnico di BARI

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education
education
Academia
grouping of universities
regulations

 taken from http://rettorevirtuoso.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-have-regional-university-…

 Sorry for the spell check --- I did not have time to do it!

 

I HAVE A REGIONAL UNIVERSITY DREAM

sad news for mechanician. Departure of HD Bui, member of french academy of science

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mechanician
hd bui

Unfortunately, HD Bui, 76, passed away yesterday evening. An elegant, dedicated, very discreet but bright mind, HD Bui made a long career at Ecole Polytechnique and EDF, making important contributions in fracture mechanics and inverse engineering.  Lately, he returned to work on his interesting contributions on the Cheops pyramid and the spiralling internal structure.

He was considered the most prominent vietnamese scientist in France, of 400 000 living there.

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