The 2009 ASME Congress starts this weekend.  You can find the schedule of the meetings of all the committees (326KB pdf).  This note lists a few special events. 

Monday, 16 November, 8:00 am to 9:30 am. Plenary Session in Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids

• Huajian Gao, Flaw tolerant nanostructures in biological and energy materials
• Mary C. Boyce, Mechanics of Periodic Polymeric Structures

Monday, 16 November, 9:45 am –.  Drucker Symposium

Monday, 16 November, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon.  Robert Henry Thurston Lecture

• Huajian Gao, Nanomechanics of Biological Systems- What can We
  Learn from Nature about the Mechanical Principles of Hierarchical Material

Tuesday, 17 November, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm.  Koiter Lecture

• Stelios Kyriakides, Propagating instabilities in cellular materials

Tuesday, 17 November, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.  Applied Mechanics Division Honors & Awards Banquet

• Pradeep Sharma receives the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award
• Eugenio Oñate receives the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award
• Stephen H. Crandall receives the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award
• James R. Barber receives the Drucker Medal
• Stelios Kyriakides receives the Koiter Medal
• Zdenek P. Bazant receives the Timoshenko Medal

Wednesday, 18 November, 9:00 am to 11:00 am.  Applied Mechanics Division General Meeting, Northern Hemisphere E4/Ballroom Level.  All are welcome to participate in developing the Applied Mechanics Division.

Wednesday, 18 November, 8:00 am to 9:30,  9:45 am to 11:15 am, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm.  Student paper competition