The 2009 ASME Congress starts this weekend. You can find the schedule of the meetings of all the committees (326KB pdf). This note lists a few special events.
Monday, 16 November, 8:00 am to 9:30 am. Plenary Session in Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids
- Huajian Gao, Flaw tolerant nanostructures in biological and energy materials
- Mary C. Boyce, Mechanics of Periodic Polymeric Structures
Monday, 16 November, 9:45 am –. Drucker Symposium
Monday, 16 November, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon. Robert Henry Thurston Lecture
- Huajian Gao, Nanomechanics of Biological Systems- What can We
Learn from Nature about the Mechanical Principles of Hierarchical Material
Tuesday, 17 November, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. Koiter Lecture
- Stelios Kyriakides, Propagating instabilities in cellular materials
Tuesday, 17 November, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. Applied Mechanics Division Honors & Awards Banquet
- Pradeep Sharma receives the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award
- Eugenio Oñate receives the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award
- Stephen H. Crandall receives the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award
- James R. Barber receives the Drucker Medal
- Stelios Kyriakides receives the Koiter Medal
- Zdenek P. Bazant receives the Timoshenko Medal
Wednesday, 18 November, 9:00 am to 11:00 am. Applied Mechanics Division General Meeting, Northern Hemisphere E4/Ballroom Level. All are welcome to participate in developing the Applied Mechanics Division.
Wednesday, 18 November, 8:00 am to 9:30, 9:45 am to 11:15 am, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. Student paper competition