Dear Colleagues:

You may have heard that Brown University will host the SES 50th Annual Technical Meeting and ASME-AMD Annual Summer Meeting (July 28-31, 2013). It is our great pleasure to welcome you to submit abstracts to a symposium -- Nanoindentation and Related Materials Phenomena at Small Scales. Attached is the call for abstract document. 

Please visit http://www.brown.edu/Conference/ses2013/ for important dates, abstract submission, and conference registration information. 

 A postdoctoral position with primary focus on first principles modeling is available immediately at Shenoy Research Group at UPenn. We are looking for a strongly motivated candidate to work on modeling the performance characteristics
of nanomaterials for energy storage. The ideal candidate will have a background
in materials science/computational physics/quantum chemistry with expertise in density functional theory

The department of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL campus has several faculty positions open, at all levels. One area of interest is structures and materials, and more specifically composites. See attached document for furhter information and how to apply.

A new opening for PhD studies has come out at University of Sheffield:

Computational Mechanics of Fracture on Advanced Composite Aerospace Structures using XFEM

For further details click on http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mecheng/phd/projects/mechanics-of-materials/fracture-composite-structures

Please see www.ul.ie/hrvacancies for details.

Department/
Research Centre:  Dept. of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Biomedical Engineering/ Irish Centre for Composites Research (IComp)

Title
of Post:    Post-Doctoral
Researcher on Structural Composite Bonded Repair

Contract
Type:  Specific Purpose

Salary:  €37,750 - €46,255 p.a.

The 2013 Residual Stress Summit will take place October 8 - 10, 2013 at the Hilton Garden Inn Idaho Falls, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA. The meeting follows the successful format of the four previous RS Summits held in Los Alamos in 2003, Vancouver in 2005, Oak Ridge in 2007, and Lake Tahoe in 2010.  You can get more information at http://www.rssummit.org

The SES 50th anniversary annual technical meeting/ASME-AMD summer meeting will be
held at Brown July 28-31 next summer (2013). A complete list of symposia is posted
on the conference website at http://www.brown.edu/Conference/ses2013/tracks_symposia.htm ,
which has links to an abstract for each symposium. The website is now open for
authors to submit abstracts.

We are currently looking for a top candidate to join the System Level Design group at CMU (www.ece.cmu.edu/~sld/), as a Postdoctoral Associate, starting Spring 2013. Main responsibilities involve work on modeling and control of stochastic micro-robotic swarms targeting biological applications.

I thought that your readership might be interested in a textbook that I recently published entitled "Soft Solids: A primer the the mechanics of materials." It is geared for the senior-masters level student.

http://www.amazon.com/Soft-Solids-Theorical-Mechanics-Materials/dp/1480257095

On behalf of the organizing committee, I cordially invite your participation in Symposium on Mechanics and

Physics of Soft Matter, as part of the 13th Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XIII), to be held in Houston, Texas, May 22-24, 2013.