Xi Chen, of Columbia University, has graciously agreed to be a new Editor of the iMechanica Journal Club. Xi is one of the earliest active users of iMechanica (user number 15), and has played a large role in shaping the development of iMechanica. He has a broad vision for mechanics, and has made contributions to diverse topics. in 2008, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
It is with deep sorrow that we inform you that Jim Knowles passed away today.
Updates on 7 November 2009. A photo of Jim is received from Rohan Abeyaratne. The following is a Caltech press release issued on the passing of James K. Knowles, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor and Professor of Applied Mechanics, Emeritus.
Zhigang Suo , Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), founder and architect of iMechanica , has been honored with a Humboldt Research Award .
Professor Huajian Gao, Brown University, will give the Robert Henry Thurston Lecture at the 2009 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Orlando, Florida. His lecture “Nanomechanics of biological systems - What can we learn from nature about hierarchical materials?” will be in room Euro 10, on the 3rd floor at the Walt Disney Dolphin Hotel (conference hotel), at 10am, November 16, Monday.
L. Mahadevan, of Harvard University, is among this year's recipients of The MacArthur Genius Grant. Congratulations!
Tony Evans passed away on Wednesday after a long and valiant fight against cancer. He was Alcoa Professor of Materials, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Multifunctional Materials and Structures at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
With a generous gift from the Haythornthwaite Foundation, the ASME Applied Mechanics Division will award grants to students presenting their own work at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2009). The grant will reimburse travel expenses and registration fees, up to $1,000 per student, for up to 10 students.
Leonhard Euler has 5 students and 56,850 academic descendents. They are all listed by the Mathematics Genealogy Project. Euler himself was a student of Johann Bernoulli, and produced a student named Joseph Louis Lagrange, who in turn produced Fourier and Poisson. No wonder Euler has so many descendents by now.
Markus Buehler of MIT, Ioannis Chasiotis of UIUC, John Dabiri of Caltech, and Robert Wood of Harvard are among 100 recipients of this year’s Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. Congratulations!
