Dear Colleague, 

The deadline for submission of abstracts to the  Twelfth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII) has been extended to Saturday, September 3, 2011.

The Twelfth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII) will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad from January 2 - 6, 2012, in collaboration with the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

We invite you to submit an abstract/full paper on a relevant topic in Applied Mechanics, as described in the conference websitewww.pacamxii.org. The deadline to submit abstracts or papers is August 1, 2011.

News:
* There are 14 specialized mini-symposia (http://pacamxii.org/Minisymposia3.html) and 10 different regular session topics (http://pacamxii.org/pacamTopics.html)

This is the second call for mini-symposia proposals for the Twelfth Pan
American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII). The deadline for
proposals is March 30, 2011. Only one week left!

We welcome mini-symposia proposals in any area of Applied Mechanics, as
described in the conference website www.pacamxii.org.

The conference will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad from January 2 – 6,
2012, in collaboration with the University of the West Indies, St.
Augustine.
The congress, organized by the American Academy of Mechanics and held
every two years, is supported by the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the
US Association for Computational Mechanics, the Argentine Association for

The Twelfth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII) will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad from January 2 – 6, 2012, in collaboration with the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
 
The congress, organized by the American Academy of Mechanics and held every two years, is supported by the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the US Association for Computational Mechanics, the Argentinean Association for Computational Mechanics, the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, the Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics, and the Chilean Society of Computational Mechanics.
 

This issue of the journal club addresses a topic deemed classical by most mechanicians: the onset and evolution of fracture in brittle solids.  In the last ten years or so a community of mathematicians have been analyzing the formulation of fracture mechanics models.  Although still at a very early stage, there is already a substantial body of work, which either sets in a very rigorous settings some known results, or give rise to other perhaps more surprising ones. Some of the ideas may be deemed physically unfeasible, proposed out of mathematical convenience, but progress onto more accepted ones is slowly happening. The strong mathematical basis of the theory is also impacting the understanding and formulation of numerical methods for crack propagation.
 

The group of Mechanics &
Computation in the Mechanical Engineering department at Stanford University has
an opening for a postdoctoral position in the area of computational mechanics
as part of the new Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC),
under the direction of Adrian Lew. The appointment
is normally made for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second
year. The ideal candidate would have a strong background on
computational solid mechanics and have programming experience, ideally in C++.
A good background in mathematics, especially numerical analysis, will be