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August 10-13, 2026

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Instructors: Professor John Dolbow and Professor Oscar Lopez-Pamies

We are pleased to announce research and PhD opportunities in Bioinspired Engineering and Technologies, with a particular emphasis on green energy production and robotics.
Our group is currently working on several challenging and high-impact areas, including:
#1. Bio-signal-based realistic control of prosthetics for rehabilitation
#2. Bio-inspired wind turbine blade design for energy harvesting from moving vehicles
#3. Research on e-VTOL systems
#4. Development of UUVs for ocean plastic cleaning

Hi all,

We would like to invite you to attend an upcoming presentation:

"Damage Sensing Digital Twin for Piezocomposites Integrating Neural Operator with Parametrically Upscaled Constitutive Damage Model"

The talk will be given by Dr. Yangyuanchen Liu from Johns Hopkins University.

The seminar will be held April 17, 2026, 11:30 AM -12:30 PM EDT.

Feel free to join the zoom meeting through the following meeting ID and passcode:
 

meeting ID: 824 6447 8256

passcode: 003801

Dear iMechanica community,

We (Pradeep Sharma, Kaushik Dayal) are writing to share an exciting new initiative aimed at maintaining and enhancing the identity, coherence, and visibility of our field.

"inspired by nature" is this year's topic of our KTH Summer School of Computational Tissue Biomechanics
read the 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hoESL99o0pm8rRKrCId73WlJ-H8J1ihg/view
Unique opportunity to connect experimental, theoretical, and numerical know how in the description of biological tissues.
+ learn about the function of solids at large deformations, for example, used in soft robotics.

Advanced Course on "Crack Initiation and Failure in Complex Structures: Finite Fracture Mechanics and related fracture models"

The advanced CISM Course will be organized in Udine, Italy, on June 9-13, 2025

Website: https://cism.it/en/activities/courses/C2505/

Lecturers:

Wrinkling - Theoretical Foundation, Experimental Characterization and Numerical Modeling

This course is aimed at graduate students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral researchers in electronics/biomedical/mechanical/civil engineering, materials science, biophysics and applied mathematics. It is also valuable for senior scientists and engineers in academia and industry interested in the fundamental theoretical aspects of wrinkling phenomena, their numerical simulation and experimental characterization.

Are you interested in undertaking a PhD in the interdisciplinary field of computational cardiovascular biomechanics? If so, there are positions available in my research group and details are provided below.