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Wei Yang, President of The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), is the recipient of the ASME Koiter Medal in 2017. He will present the Koiter Medal Lecture, titled "Research Landscape for Science and Engineering in Mainland China" at the ASME's 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2017)

Location: Grand Ballroom G, 2nd Floor, Tampa Marriott Waterside

Date/time:  5:30-6:30pm, 7 November 2017

The organizers of the 2018 SES Conference are currently seeking proposals for symposia.

The 2018 SES conference program is grouped in four tracks:

• Frontiers of Engineering Science,
• Engineering and Mathematics,
• Engineering and Physical Sciences, and
• Engineering and Life Sciences.

A number of thematic symposia will be organized in each track to cover the current state of the art in different areas of Engineering Science as well as at the interface between engineering and different sciences.

Proposals can be submitted at

2018 SES Conference - Madrid, Spain

Dear colleagues

We sincerely invite you to attend the coming International Conference on Impact Loading of Structures and Materials to be held in Xi'an, China during May 7th-11th, 2018.

The list of topics includes but is not limited to:

• Material behavior at high strain rates (lightweight alloys, composites, polymers, metals, foams, ceramics, biological materials)

• Structural failure under impact, energy absorbing systems and crashworthiness

• New dynamic experimental techniques

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the minsymposium (11) on "Damage of Composites under Impact Loading" at the 2018 International Conference of Damage Mechanics which will be held at Tongji University (Shanghai, China) on July 4-6, 2018. You can find a description of the symposium and the conference website (http://www.icdm3.cn/).

The deadline of short abstract (80 words) is November 15, 2017.

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Best Regards,

ASME just released its journal information for 2016.  Among >30 journals published by ASME, JAM is once again the fastest, with the average review time (including the time for review, authors’ revision, and re-review) to be 42 days.  The second fastest ASME journal is 101 days.  As a result the impact factor of JAM (for whatever it is worth) exceeds 2.1.

This post is to remind IMECE Tampa attendees that in addition to the many exciting symposia that have been organized by mechanicians for Track 12---the following key events will also take place:

(1) Plenary lectures sponsored by Applied Mechanics Division, will be given by Professors Subra Suresh and Howard Stone, Tuesday morning, Nov 7th,  8-9:30am;

(2) Koiter Medal lecture, to be given by Professor Wei Yang, Tuesday afternoon, 5:30-6:30 pm, Nov 7th, Tue.

The Simulation Science Center Clausthal/Göttingen offers a PhD position for 3 years in the area of Computational Material Sciences with the research topic „Pressure induced phase transition and plasticity in ironcarbon alloys“. Tasks include research in material science, in particular atomistic simulations of iron-carbon systems under high pressure to evaluate the influence of carbon on strength and material embrittlement.