The 25th Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper on Finite Element Analysis will be held at Duke University on April 25, 2014. The competition has become one of the premier graduate student events in the broad area of mechanics.
As a journal editor, I am often surprised by some of the suggestions authors make for potential reviewers. In some cases the suggestions are not very good, and on occasion authors do not suggest reviewers at all. Some authors will even state explicitly that they cannot think of any reviewers, which is really surprising.
Ju Liu, from the University of Texas at Austin, is the 2013 Melosh Medalist for his paper "A Thermodynamically Consistent Algorithm for Liquid-Vapor Phase Transitions in Complex Geometries". Please join me in congratulating Ju!
Six finalists have been announced for the Twenty-Fourth Annual Robert J. Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis. The finalists and their current institutions are:
Michael Borden, University of Texas at Austin
Pritam Chakraborty, Idaho National Laboratory
Allen LaBryer, University of Oklahoma
Ernesto Lima, University of Texas at Austin
Ju Liu, University of Texas at Austin
Due to a large number of requests, the deadline to submit an abstract to the 12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, to be held in Raleigh this summer, has been extended to March 15, 2013. Students and postdoctoral fellows should note that there are travel awards available for the Congress.
The deadline to submit an abstract to the 12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics , to be held in Raleigh this summer, has been extended to February 28, 2013. Those interested in participating in the Congress should submit their abstracts as soon as possible as we do not plan to extend the deadline again. Students and postdoctoral fellows should note that there are travel awards available for the Congress.
The 24th Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper on Finite Element Analysis will be held at Duke University on April 26, 2013. The competition has become one of the premier graduate student events in the broad area of mechanics.
The deadline for minisymposium proposals for the 12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM12) has been extended to September 30, 2012.
The Congress will be held July 22-25, 2013 in Raleigh, NC and proposals are solicited from people interested in organizing sessions in their area of expertise or interest and/or wishing to honor a particular individual for their sustained contributions or a special honorary birthday celebration.
I thought it might be useful to the iMechanica community to write something about the review process in scientific journals. For full disclosure, I am one of the co-editors of the Elsevier journal Finite Elements in Analysis and Design. Indeed, it is precisely that editorship which informs the content of this blog post.