Dear Colleagues,

The Cambridge Solid Mechanics Group are starting a new project with the aim to transform the design of engineering components from one based on selecting a best single material to one in which material properties and compositions are treated as continuous, spatially varying quantities.

Prof. Subra Suresh has just been awarded the National Medal of Science by President Biden in a ceremony that took place recently at the White House. YouTube video: https://youtu.be/IgtG2lCiQDU 

Links to some related news reports:

Four from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2024) will be held in Daegu, Korea, on August 25-30, 2024 (http://www.ictam2024.org). ICTAM congresses are organized under the auspices of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) and traditionally gather the mechanics community from around the world every four years. 

We are organizing a Minisymposium "Advances in discretization techniques, element technology, mesh adaptivity, and solution strategies for inelasticity, localization, and failure" for the upcoming 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics (https://www.wccm2024.org/) taking place July 21-26 (2024) in Vancouver, Canada.

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A funded Ph.D. position is available within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the area of impact biomechanics and sensor research focusing on head injury prevention technologies. Strong background in sensor technology and signal processing is highly desired. Successful applicants will have a B.S. or M.S. degree in either Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering field.

The Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (DICCA) of the University of Genoa (UNIGE) is offering a post-doc position within the 2-years reasearch project PRIN PNRR 2022 “A digital framework for the cutting of soft tissues: A first step towards virtual surgery” focused on multiscale modeling of the complete cutting process in human brain tissues. 

We invite applications for multiple PhD openings in the Salahshoor Research Group (https://salahshoor.pratt.duke.edu) at the Duke University. We are building a team of exceptional researchers who are driven by passion and curiosity and are excited by fundamental questions about physics of solids. Our lab operates at the intersection of mechanics, data science, material science and biology, and applied mathematics. Current areas of interest include:

The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Diego Misseroni, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, as the recipient of the 2024 Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.