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Monsieur Pineau, as I remember him

Submitted by benzerga on Sun, 03/03/2024 - 01:16

I am deeply saddened by the passing of Andre Pineau in Paris yesterday. I happened to be one of ~100 PhD students he graduated over the course of his career.

JAM Special Issue on New Frontiers in the Mechanics of Materials

Submitted by benzerga on Sat, 06/13/2015 - 16:21

mechanician

void growth

Crystal plasticity

discrete dislocations

computatinal solid mechanics

A meeting was held in Paris last summer on the occasion of Prof. Alan Needleman’s 70th birthday

http://engineering.tamu.edu/aerospace/news/needleman-symposium/overview

The corresponding special issue in the Journal of Applied Mechanics is now online

Faculty position at Texas A&M University

Submitted by benzerga on Thu, 09/11/2014 - 14:16

job

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position at the assistant, associate, or full professor level with expertise in computational materials science & engineering. [...] Applicants should consult the department’s website to review our academic and research programs (engineering.tamu.edu/materials).

Faculty Position in Aerospace Materials at Texas A&M

Submitted by benzerga on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 18:57

job

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