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Fully Funded PhD Position: Machine Learning for 3D Printed Multifunctional Metamaterials (PICTUS Programme, CTU Prague)
2019 TIMOSHENKO MEDAL ACCEPTANCE LECTURE: Professor J.N. Reddy
Fully funded PhD position / Dislocation plasticity
Finite-width adiabatic shear banding and dislocation patterning in mesoscale polycrystalline aggregates
Dynamic micromagnetism a la Ericksen-Leslie, and the constrained polar continuum mechanics of hard magnetic soft materials
Paper by Vikram Deshpande, Norman Fleck, and co-workers: making mechanics the protagonist in solid-state batteries (and a plug for MechanicsArxiv)
Rational Mechanics of Material Strength in Brittle Solids
2026 Stephen P. Timoshenko Medal – Professor Nancy R. Sottos
2026 Warner T. Koiter Medal – Professor David Steigmann
2026 Daniel C. Drucker Medal – Professor Yihui Zhang

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in situ Mechanics
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