Delivered at the Annual Dinner of the Applied Mechanics Division, in the Back Bay Ballroom, Sheraton Hotel, Boston, in the evening of 4 November 2008, the Election Day of the United States of America
You are cordially invited to attend a reception in honor of Professor John W. Hutchinson during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition. Download a printable version of this invitation.
Monday, 3 November 2008, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Room: Fairfax A/B, Sheraton Boston Hotel & Towers, 39 Dalton Street, Boston, MA, Phone: 617-236-6039
Professor Choon Fong Shih, President, National University of Singapore; Founding President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
For lasting contributions to mechanics, and for building bridges between disciplines and between nations
Sia Nemat-Nasser, Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials, The University of California, San Diego
For fundamental theoretical and experimental contributions in: dynamic stability; deformation and failure modes of materials; nano-electro-chemo-mechanical characterization and modeling of ionic polymer metal composites; and composites with integrated tuned electromagnetic functionality, self-healing, and self-sensing.
Richard D. James, Russell J. Penrose Professor, University of Minnesota
For pioneering the modern vision of phase transformations and materials instabilities in solids.
Ali Hasan Nayfeh, University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
For seminal analytical and experimental contributions to nonlinear dynamics and structural mechanics
Thomas C.T. Ting, Professor Emeritus, the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Consulting Professor, Stanford University
For significant contributions to the development of the Stroh formalism of anisotropic elasticity, and to the analyses of several fundamental inelastic and wave propagation problems
Professor Chad M. Landis, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin
For outstanding contributions to the mechanics of active materials
Dusan Krajcinovic received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Belgrade (1958, 1966) and his PhD in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University in 1968, working with Prof. George Hermann.
