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Michael McAlpine and Xuanhe Zhao to receive Extreme Mechancis Letters Award

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Michael McAlpine (University of Minnesota) and  Xuanhe Zhao (MIT) will receive the 2015 EML Young Investigator Award  honoring the best paper published in Extreme Mechanics Letters by a young scientist in 2014 or 2015. Michael is being recognized for his paper, "Pyro-paraelectricity,” which was published in the March 2015 issue of the journal. Xuanhe is awarded for the paper, "Predicting Fracture Energies and Crack-Tip Fields of Soft Tough Materials,” which was published in the September 2015 issue of the journal.

Symposium on Metamaterials at MRS Fall meeting

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Dear Imechanicians,



The deadline of abstract submission  of  this year's MRS Fall meeting  is fast-approaching, June 19, 2012. The meeting will be held  in November 25-30, 2012 in Boston.

 

This year  the MRS Fall meeting will include an exciting symposium on metamaterials. If you are planning on joining us, please submit your abstracts using the online submission systems as soon as possible at

Post-doctoral position in solid mechanics at Harvard

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A postdoctoral position is available in the area of mechanics of solids and structures. The ideal candidate will have expertise in mechanics of materials, will be creative and willing to explore new ideas.



For additional information, please contact Katia Bertoldi at bertoldi [at] seas.harvard.edu



APS March Meeting: " Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation "

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Dear Mechanicians,
 
I would like to draw your attention to the Focus Session **Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation** that will  take place at the upcoming March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Dallas, TX (March 21-25, 2011).

Each of the sessions will include an invited talk, followed by a series of contributed talks. This year's invited speakers are:

NEW.Mech on 25th, September 2010

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Dear imechanicans,

We are delighted to inform you that the first installment of NEW.Mech (The New England
Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures)  will be held at
Harvard University on September 25th, 2010. You will find more detailed
information on the workshop's website:

NEW.Mech will be a one-day workshop that aims to bring together the New England
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