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The full video of a recent symposium organized by the Young Academy of Europe on Covid-19 epidemiology is now online on YouTube, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy1qVBs6fHI

Virtual testing is an established methodology in computational mechanics to accelerate the design of new materials and components. Nonetheless, there is plenty of room to transfer such methods in R&D departments of SMEs.

Recently, digital twin models come into play, and they are opening even more perspectives to incorporate computational mechanics and optimization towards the realization of digital models of real production lines. 

A recent demonstrator of those technologies has been recently realized in Italy, see: 

Online symposium organized by the Young Academy of Europe on models and simulation for Covid-19 epidemic, including data analysis, on April 22 from 4 to 6 pm (CEST).

Free attendance upon registration. 

See the link below for more info about speakers, abstracts, timetable and registration:

https://meetings.yacadeuro.org/event/2/

150 people have already made the registration 

The new book "Modeling and Simulation of Tribological Problems in Technology" (CISM book series, Springer) has been published: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-20377-1

Editors: Paggi, Marco (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy), Hills, David (University of Oxford)

2019/20 PhD programs at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy

Deadline for applications – April 23rd, 2019, 12 pm CEST

Online application form: https://www.imtlucca.it/en/programma-dottorato/ammissione/procedure

Modelling, testing and simulation of the effect of roughness on mechanical response of adhesive joints

1 Post Doctoral Fellow position at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Lucca, Italy), in cooperation with Robert Bosch GmbH (Renningen, Germany)

(Deadline January 2nd, 2019 12:00 Italian time)

Fields: Adhesives; Roughness; Nonlinear finite element method; Experimental testing; Confocal profilometry

Dear Mechanician,

we are searching for excellent PhD candidates for the next 3-yrs PhD programme in Systems Science (Track Computer Science and Systems Engineering, research unit MUSAM on Multi-scale Analysis of Materials) of the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Lucca, Tuscany, Italy) to work on an interdisciplinary research topic across computational mechanics, materials science, optimization, and high-performance computing.

Deadline: August 3rd 2018 at 12.00pm (CEST)

Dear Mechanicians,

a new project at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Lucca, Italy) has just been launched to create the first open access database of rough surfaces from nature and technology, see: 

http://musam.imtlucca.it/wikisurf.html

People are invited to contribute to the database by providing images of surfaces acquired using experimental techniques, as well as the corresponding elevation data field (raw x,y,z data in columns).