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Understanding the Cooperative Interaction between Myosin II and Actin Crosslinkers Mediated by Actin Filaments

Submitted by Tian Zhi Luo on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 21:08

actin crosslinking protein

Postdoc position, modeling growth, differentiation and adaptation of biological tissues

Submitted by azadpoor on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 18:13

I have a one-year vacant postdoc position. The work will be mostly related to development of FE models for modeling growth, differentiation, and adaptation of biological tissues. The postdoc needs to know a lot about nonlinear continuum mechanics and advanced material models and should be able to write FE codes and implement advanced material models in commercial FE programs.

2011 ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) Annual Honors and Awards Banquet

Submitted by Ares Rosakis on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 16:50

awards

applied mechanics

Haythornthwaite Foundation

banquet

This year the Annual ASME Applied Mechanics Division Honors and Awards Banquet was held on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 in Denver Colorado. I had the pleasure of presiding over the evening and distributing the AMD Division awards, AMD Student Paper Competition awards, and AMD-Haythornthwaite Foundation Travel Awards. Below is a list of all the award recipients and I have attached a PDF with pictures of the awardees that evening.

AMD Division Awards:

2011 Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) Student Paper Contest Winners:

Submitted by Ares Rosakis on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 16:08

Haythornthwaite Foundation

Applied Mechanics awards

mechcanicians

The Applied Mechanics Division encourages the involvement of graduate students in the activities of the AMD Division. One of the ways is the sponsorship of the annual Student Paper Contest. The recipients of this prize are chosen from the Haythornthwaite Student Travel contest award pool sponsored by the Haythornthwaite Foundation.

This year’s winners are:

1^st Place prize: Baptiste Coudrillier - Johns Hopkins University

2011 ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) - Haythornthwaite Foundation STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS

Submitted by Ares Rosakis on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 16:03

Applied Mechanics Award

Haythornthwaite Foundation

The Applied Mechanics Division, Executive Committee continues to seek ways to involve and encourage younger members and particularly graduate students in the activities of the AMD Division.

WCCM 2012 - Mini symposium on Computational Damage Mechanics of Composite Materials

Submitted by malfano on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 15:58

conference

fracture

computational mechanics

damage

composite materials

I am co-organizing a mini-symposium on « Computational damage mechanics of composite materials » in the World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 2012) with Dr. Gilles Lubineau at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Dr. Glaucio H. Paulino at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.