Dear all,

It is my great pleasure to announce that the Third K.J. Bathe Award, made every two years, will be awarded in 2012. This award is named to recognize the outstanding contributions made by Professor K.J. Bathe over many years to the field of computational engineering.  

The 2012 Award will be given to an author of the best paper published in Computers & Structures in the years 2010 and 2011. The K.J. Bathe Award includes a certificate and 2,000 euros donated by the publishers of Computers & Structures, Elsevier Ltd. The author should be under the age of 40 on 1 January 2012.

For the details, please look at:

http://www.bhvt.org.uk/batheaward2012/

Best regards,

Jung W. Hong

Dear Colleague,

I wish you a Happy New Year!

As announced in the last year, the Sixth M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics will be held in June 2011 at M.I.T. The theme of the Conference is "Solids & Structures", and the topic is interpreted in a very broad way.

For the conference, I am organizing a special session named as "Coupling of Meshless Methods with Finite Element Methods in Multiphysics" and the session will include various multiphysics such dielectric-mechanical coupling, FSI, and thermo-mechanical approaches in addition to meshless methods.

These Abstracts will be published in a Book of Abstracts as for the earlier M.I.T. Conferences.

We have an opening for a postdoctoral scholar in the area of computational mechanics. Specific problems of interest include the nonlocal plasticity, molecular dynamics and meshless methods for continuum damage mechanics. Rich experience of C++, X-windows image processing, and Fortran programming (especially parallel processing) is required. Contact: Professor Jung W. Hong at Michigan State University.  Email: jwh@egr dot msu dot edu.

Dear Colleague,

The Sixth M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics will be held in June 2011 at M.I.T.
The theme of the Conference is "Solids & Structures", and the topic is interpreted in a very broad way.

The Abstracts for full papers to be published in Computers & Structures are due January 31, 2010.
please see http://www.sixthmitconference.org

The conference proceedings will be published by Elsevier as a special issue of the journal "Computers and Structures",
and we are planning for this issue to be ready at the Conference in June 2011.

We have an opening for a postdoctoral scholar in the area of computational mechanics. Specific problems of interest include molecular dynamics and meshless method for continuum damage mechanics. Rich experience of C++, X-windows image processing, and Fortran programming (especially parallel processing) is required.   Contact: Professor Jung-Wuk Hong at Michigan State University.  Email: jwh at egr dot msu dot edu.

I thought the mechanics community would be interested in the course notes of
Prof. K. J. Bathe on "Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Fluids". This
course was taught at MIT and now is available freely through MIT Open
CourseWare website:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-094-finite-element-analysis-of-solids-and-fluids-spring-2008/

Enjoy!

There are two positions available for doctoral studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Michigan State University.  Two-year fundings are secured for those positions.  Research area is computational mechanics especially for meshless methods, wave propagation excited by piezo-material, interconnect reliability analysis under shock loading, and  structural response under extreme loadings.  Strong mathematical background with programming knowledge and experience with commercial FEA packages such as ADINA, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, etc. will be considered. 

Contact: Professor Jung-Wuk Hong at Michigan State University.  Email: jwh@egr.msu.edu