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2015 Themes and Discussion Leaders
- December, Mechanics of Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes, Huck Beng Chew (UIUC)
- November, Rethink Wood, Teng Li, Shuze Zhu, Zheng Jia (University of Maryland, College Park)
- October, Mechanics of Structure Genome, Wenbin Yu (Purdue University)
- September, Kinematics of Crystal Elasto-Plasticity: F=FeFp, Celia Reina (University of Pennsylvania)
- August, Nonlocality and yield in granular materials, David Henann (Brown University)
- July, Reconfigurable metamaterials -- putting the holes in the right place, Shu Yang (University of Pennsylvania), Jie Yin (Temple University)
- June, Gradient structures for optimal mechanical design, Yujie Wei (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- May, Mechanics of nano bionic materials, Chiara Daraio, ETH Zurich
- April, Mechanical characterization of soft hydrated materials, Yuhang Hu, UIUC
- March, Mechanics of 2D solid and liquid crystals, Sulin Zhang (Penn State University), Hongyan Yuan (University of Rhode Island)
- February, The Ruga Mechanics, Kyung-Suk Kim, Mazen Diab, Ruike Zhao (Brown University)
- January, Topology Optimization for Materials Design, James Guest (Johns Hopkins University)
2014 Themes and Discussion Leaders
- December, Neuromechanics, Ashutosh Agrawal (University of Houston)
- November, Catalyzed Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires - Multiscale Models, Wei Cai (Stanford University)
- October, Microbial fuel cells - When mechanics meets bioelectrochemistry, Christian Linder (Stanford University)
- September, Modeling thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling processes in porous media, WaiChing Sun (Columbia University)
- August, Geometry, topology, and solid mechanics, Arash Yavari (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- July, Overcoming challenges in mechanically actuating liquid-crystalline elastomers, Chris Yakacki (UC Denver)
- June, Modeling Crystal Plasticity through Discrete Dislocation Dynamics Simulations , Jaafar El-Awady (Johns Hopkins University)
- May, in situ Nanomechanics,Ting Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- April, Challenges and Opportunities in 3D Printing: A Mini Introduction , Jerry Qi (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- March, 3D Experimental Measurements in Soft Materials, Christian Franck (Brown University)
- February, Energy Challenges and Mechanics, Henry Tan (University of Aberdeen)
- January, Electro- and magneto-active deformable composites , Stephan Rudykh (MIT)
2013 Themes and Discussion Leaders
- December, Bio-Integrated Flexible and Stretchable Strain Gauges , Nanshu Lu (UT Austin)
- November, Nano-architected Nanolattice Structures , Lucas Meza, Lauren Montemayor, Julia Greer (Caltech)
- October, Contortion of Thin Elastic Rods, Pedro Reis (MIT)
- September, Stretchable ionics , Zhigang Suo (Harvard)
- August, Synthetic Mechanochemistry , Meredith Silberstein (Cornell University)
- July, Predicting granular flows: A new size-dependent constitutive model , Ken Kamrin (MIT)
- June, Biological Ferroelectricity: from Speculation to Reality , Jiangyu Li (University of Washington)
- May, Mechanics of biological and bio-inspired supramolecular assemblies , Luis Ruiz, Sinan Keten, (Northwestern University)
- April, Mechanical Metamaterials , Jongmin Shim (SUNY Baffalo)
- March, Interfacial adhesion of graphene - measurements and analysis, Rui Huang (UT Austin)
- February, Surface energy and mechanical instabilities in soft materials, Shengqiang Cai (UCSD)
- January, Error in constitutive equations approach for materials characterization, Wilkins Aquino (Duke University)
2012 Themes and Discussion Leaders
- December, Metamaterials inspired concepts for elastic wave energy harvesting, Massimo Ruzzene (Georgia Tech)
- November, Harnessing Instabilities in Response to Stimuli, Xuanhe Zhao (Duke)
- October, instabilities of structures, Davide Bigoni (Univ of Trento - Italy)
- September, Fracture of gels, Wei Hong (Iowa State University)
- August, Mesh dependence in cohesive element modeling, Julian Rimoli (Georgia Tech)
- July, Mechanics of Biological and Biomimetic Cellular Structures, Ashkan Vaziri (Northeastern Univ)
- June, Composites with extreme and tunable properties, Dennis Kochmann (Caltech)
- May, Hierarchical and Quasiperiodic Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials, Alessandro Spadoni (EPFL)
- April, Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials, Mahmoud Hussein (University of Colorado)
- March, Brownian motion and entropic elasticity in filamentous molecules , Prashant Purohit (UPenn)
- February, Elastic Instabilities for Responsive Structures, Douglas Holmes (Virginia Tech)
- January, Mechanics of Growth, Ellen Kuhl (Stanford)
2011 Themes and Discussion Leaders
- December, Mechanics of Porous Materials, John Balk
- November, Hierarchical Mechanics of Diatom Algae: From Atoms to Organism, Leon Dimas
- October, AFM in Nano-biomechanics, Majid Minary
- September, See while Measure: In-situ Studies in Mechanics, Aman Haque
- August, Energy Harvesting Using Soft Materials, Adrian Koh
- July, Three Dimensional Biologically Inspired Microvascular Systems, Howon Lee
- June, Dynamic Mechanical Behavior of Advanced Structural Materials, Qiuming Wei
- May, Nanoscale electromechanics and piezoresponse Force Microscopy, Jiangyu Li
- April, Adhesion of Thin Membranes and Shells, Kai-tak Wan
- March, Mechanics at Nano-Bio Interfaces, Sulin Zhang
- February, Challenges of Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems Involving Incompressible, Viscous Flow, Yin (Julie) Young
- January, Mechanics of Materials for Solar Energy, Harley Johnson
2010 Themes and Discussion Leaders
- December, Mechanics of Energy Storage, Hanqing Jiang
- November, Ultra-high Temperature Resisting Materials and Structures, Qingda Yang
- October, Mechanical behavior of highly packed particulate composites, Henry Tan
- September, Modeling the Mechanics of Cellular Membranes, Alexander Spector
- August, Deformation Mechanisms in Nanotwinned FCC Metals, Yashashree Kulkarni
- July, Mechanics of ionic polymer metal composites, Wei Hong
- June, Geometric nonlinearities in thin elastic objects, Pedro Miguel Reis
- May, Cavitation in Soft Solids, Oscar Lopez-Pamies
- April, Negative Poisson's ratio materials , Katia Bertoldi
- March, Viscoelasticity of soft tissues , Thao (Vicky) Nguyen
- February, Mechanics of Patterned and Structured Interfaces, Kevin Turner
- January, MEMS-based Instrumentation for Experimental Nanomechanics, Yong Zhu
2009
- December, Impact Behavior of Materials with Cellular Structures, Henry Tan
- November, Steady Granular Flow, Ken Kamrin
- October, Peridynamics, Stewart Silling
- September, Elasticity and Failure, Konstantin Volokh
- August, One-Way Wave Equations for Imaging, Multiscale Modeling, and ABCs, Murthy Guddati
- July, Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery: Understanding of Efflux Kinetics and Diffusion, Ashfaq Adnan
- June, Bimaterial interfaces in nature: attachment of tendon to bone, Guy Genin
- May, Configurational forces in finite elements: energy-based mesh adaptation, William Klug
- April, Mechanobiology and Molecular Mechanomedicine, Ning Wang
- March, Mechanics and materials issues in nanocapacitors for energy storage, Pradeep Sharma
- February, Finite element methods in quantum mechanics, N. Sukumar
- January, Impetus for cell mechanics, Rohit Khanna
2008
- December 1, Cyber-enabled predictive science-based continuum mechanics for multiscale fracture process discovery, Wing-Kam Liu
- November 1, Mechanical behaviour of rubber-like materials, Erwan Verron
- October 15, Experimental solid mechanics at the nanoscale, Krishnaswamy Ravi-chandar
- October 1, Fluid-structure interactions, an overview of current trends and challenges, Joël Cugnoni
- September 15, Defects in solids--where mechanics meets quantum mechanics, Vikram Gavini
- September 1, Self-healing polymers, Aaron Forster
- August 15, Variational formulations in fracture mechanics, Adrian Lew
- August 1, Regulation and stabilization of cell adhesion by external forces, Muhammad Zaman
- July 15, Plasticity at sub-micron scales, Wei Cai
- July 1, Mechanics in Neuronal Development, Kristian Franze
- June 15, Kinetics of structural phase transitions, Kaushik Dayal
- June 1, Magnetic resonance imaging in biomechanics, Valentina Taviani
- May 15, Experimental mechanics at the nanoscale, Julia Greer
- May 1, Mechanical behavior of polymer-matrix nanocomposites, L. Roy Xu
- April 15, Fracture of ferroelectrics, Chad Landis
- April 1, Strain measurement in soft tissues, Tammy Haut Donahue
- March 15, Impact of Chip-Package Interaction on Reliability of Copper/Low K Interconnects and Beyond, Rui Huang
- March 1, Measuring Cellular Tractions, Vesna Damljanovic
- February 15, Plasticity and failure in metallic glasses, Yanfei Gao
- February 1, Spider silk and protein mechanics , Sinan Keten
- January 15, Active polymer nanocomposites, Zoubeida Ounaies
- January 1, Role of mechanics in biomimetics, Michelle Oyen
2007
- December, Elastodynamic band gaps and metamaterials, Biswajit Bannerjee
- November, Surface effects on properties of nanostructures, Harold Park
- October, Irreversible thermodynamics of continuous media, Anurag Gupta
- September, Quantum effects in solid mechanics, Harley Johnson
- August, Nanoindentation with focus on soft matter, Virginia Ferguson
- July, Mechanics of hydrogels, Jerry Qi
- June, Cellular mechanotransduction, Patrick Onck
- May, Experimental mechanics of nano building blocks, Xiaodong Li
- April, Analytical modeling of biomolecules, Xi Chen
- March, Mechanics of flexible electronics, Teng Li
- February, Computational mechanics of biomembranes, John E. Dolbow
- January, Biomechanics and non-affine kinematics, Michelle L. Oyen
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