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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.

An exciting  short course on "Extremely deformable structures" will take place  at the
International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM)  in Udine (Italy) from June 2nd to June 6th.

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.

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@seas.harvard.edu

To apply, please send a current CV, publication list, and contact information for at least 3 references to Katia Bertoldi at bertoldi@seas.harvard.edu.

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:

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:

<http://newmech.mit.edu>

Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to provide properties which may not be readily available in nature and are attracting increasing attention. These materials usually gain their properties from structure rather than composition. Although the first metamaterials were photonic (i.e.  artificially fabricated, sub-wavelength, periodic structures, designed to interact with optical frequencies) and acoustic (i.e.

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@seas.harvard.edu or visit the website www.bertoldi.seas.harvard.edu

In the field of multi-scale (discrete and continuum) theory and modeling of fluids and solids.

The scientific goal of the project is to develop a multi-scale computational method that uses a single hierarchical data-structure as basis – involving also multiple fields. Starting from mesoscopic structures (particles or domains) a grid is constructed on a hierarchical, tree-based data structure. The hierarchical approach allows for micro-macro transition, coupling of different fields, and coarsening or refinement – where possible or needed, respectively.

Info:  The goal of this project is to investigate the mechanical and acoustical behavior of materials characterized by a well-defined miscrostructure. The research will involve experimental, theoretical and computational mechanics.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, science-driven, outstanding young
candidate with experience in solid and structural mechanics. Experience
with basic mechanical testing techniques is also appreciated.