Skip to main content

Cai Wei's blog

Open Junior Faculty Positions in Stanford ME

Submitted by Cai Wei on

There are two open junior faculty positions in Stanford’s Mechanical Engineering department.  One is in the area of biomechanical engineering (broadly defined) and the second is theoretical and computational fluid mechanics (broadly defined).



 http://me.stanford.edu/research/open_positions.html 



The following is a synopsis of the announcements. 



Tenure Track Junior Faculty Opening

Lecture notes on "Elasticity" and "Statistical Mechanics"

Submitted by Cai Wei on

The lecture notes of the two courses I taught at Stanford University during the last two quarters, "ME 340 Elasticity" and "ME 334 Introduction to Statistical Mechanics", are available in PDF format online at:



  http://micro.stanford.edu/~caiwei/me340/



  http://micro.stanford.edu/~caiwei/me334/

Perhaps it could be useful to you.

Dislocations 2008 International Conference

Submitted by Cai Wei on

We are pleased to announce Dislocations 2008, an international conference on the fundamentals of plastic deformation and other physical phenomena where the dislocations play pivotal roles.  The conference will take place on October 13-17, 2008 at the Gold Coast Hotel, Hong Kong, China.  More information about the Dislocations 2008 conference can be found at the following web site:

New Book: Computer Simulations of Dislocations, by Vasily V. Bulatov and Wei Cai

Submitted by Cai Wei on

Companion web site http://micro.stanford.edu ISBN:0-19-852614-8, Hard cover, 304 pages, Nov. 2006, US $74.50.

This book presents a broad collection of models and computational methods - from atomistic to continuum - applied to crystal dislocations. Its purpose is to help students and researchers in computational materials sciences to acquire practical knowledge of relevant simulation methods. Because their behavior spans multiple length and time scales, crystal dislocations present a common ground for an in-depth discussion of a variety of computational approaches, including their relative strengths, weaknesses and inter-connections. The details of the covered methods are presented in the form of "numerical recipes" and illustrated by case studies. A suite of simulation codes and data files is made available on the book's website to help the reader "to learn-by-doing" through solving the exercise problems offered in the book. This book is part of an Oxford Series on Materials Modelling.