Geometry

Dear colleagues,

I am honoured to be helping restart the EML Webinar Series as Special Editor for Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML).

Our first seminar of the new season will be by Prof. Alain Goriely, University of Oxford, on:

“Tilings and Mosaics: Soft Cells and the Tainted Love of the Nautilus”

Date: Friday, 19 June 2026

Time: 10 am Boston / 10 pm Beijing / 4 pm Paris / 3 pm London

Discussion leader: Prof. Ellen Kuhl, Stanford University

I am seeking a PhD student to work on the design and modeling of morphing solids and shells. The position is fully funded and is available at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri – Columbia.

Applicants will have a BS or an MS or an Engineering degree in a relevant area (Mechanical or Civil Engineering, Physics or Applied Mathematics). Knowledge of Python, Matlab and of an FEA software (e.g., Ansys) is a plus.

Assistantship in the Maddocks group at the EPFL http://lcvmwww.epfl.ch

A position is available to work on a combined analytical, numerical and experimental study of uniform elastic rods in two contexts:

1)  the characterisation of helical equilibria, including stability properties, in both the cases of self-avoiding and self-contacting configurations,

and

2) the equilibria of knots in the presence of friction.

Liu, M., Wu, J., Gan, Y., Hanaor, D. A., & Chen, C. Q. (2018). Tuning capillary penetration in porous media: Combining geometrical and evaporation effects. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 123, 239-250.

Matteo Pezzulla, Gabriel P. Smith, Paola Nardinocchi, and Douglas P. Holmes, Soft Matter, 12, 4435-4442, (2016).