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Mechanics of Adhesion at USNCTAM 2018

Submitted by Kevin T Turner on

Ken Liechti, Ken Shull, and I are organizing a symposium on the Mechanics of Adhesion at the 2018 USNCTAM meeting.  We are still soliciting abstracts for this session and encourage you to submit an abstract by Nov. 25, 2017

Mechanics of Adhesion at the 18th USNCTAM Congress to be held June 5-9, 2018 in Chicago 

2018 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award – Professor Firdaus Udwadia

Submitted by Executive Comm… on

The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Firdaus Udwadia, Professor of Civil Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, as the recipient of the 2018 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award.

Computational Geomechanics mini-symposium at EMI 2018, MIT (Due Jan 31, 2018)

Submitted by Jinhyun Choo on
Dear Colleague,

We would like to kindly invite you to the Computational Geomechanics mini-symposium at EMI 2018, which will take place in May 29–June 1, 2018 at MIT, Cambridge MA, USA. The abstract submission is now open at https://www.openconf.org/emi2018/openconf.php until January 31, 2018. The mini-symposium description is given below:

Second announcement for a new tenure-track assistant professor position at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands

Submitted by Sergio Turteltaub on

This a second announcement for a new tenure-track assistant professor position is available in the group of Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Candidates will be considered for a wide range of areas within structural mechanics. More information can be found in the following link:

https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/TUD/vacancy/43140/lang/en/

ICMAE 2018 - 9 th International Conference on Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

Submitted by Asst. Prof. Dr… on

Dear Colleagues,

I am one of the scientific / technical committee members of ICMAE 2018 and I would like to kindly announce

the ICMAE 2018 - 9 th International Conference on Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering to be held in Budapest, Hungary

during July 10 -13, 2018.

Please also kindly find the attached document named as ICMAE 2018 - CFP and this document consists of the detailed

information about the ICMAE 2018.

Call for abstracts USNC/TAM 2018 Symposium 321: Mechanics in Nano- And Micro-Scale Material Design: Synthesis, Experiments, Theory and Simulation

Submitted by Xiaoding Wei on

Dear Colleagues,

The 18th USNC/TAM Congress to be held June 5-9, 2018 in Chicago. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to a symposium named 321: Mechanics in Nano- And Micro-Scale Material Design: Synthesis, Experiments, Theory and Simulation.

2 open PhD positions , Cornell MAE

Submitted by nbouklas on

Two PhD openings are available for Fall 2018 (flexible start date), in the lab of Dr Bouklas at Cornell MAE.
(https://www.mae.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=nb589)

The research topics are:
a) Mechanics/multiphysics of soft materials and bio-materials.
b) Mechanics of contractile biological cells.
The areas of interest in both topics are computational mechanics, continuum mechanics, fracture mechanics, contact mechanics and stability.