There will be a mini-symposium entitled "Defects and Microstructure at the Nanoscale and Beyond," at the USNCCM-10 conference in Columbus, OH, July 16 -19, 2009.  This topic is of keen interest to the I-Mechanica community and we hope many of you will join us there. Our goal is to bring together researchers from the mechanics, materials, and physics communities to cross-fertilize research on defect-mediated processes in microstructural evolution, with a focus on both hard and soft materials. 

A new journal in Materials Engineering, with emphasis on mechanical properties, will be launched this year.

The home page is at:

 http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=438

 Author instruction can be found at:

http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=438&dtype=1&jtype=

Online submission at:

10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics

July 16-19, 2009. Columbus, Ohio

Minisymposium 2.2.5  Ab Initio and Intermediate Atomistics in Computational Nanomechanics 

Organizers: 

Traian Dumitrica, University of Minnesota

Boris I. Yakobson, Rice University 

I would like to share the following information to all the iMechanica users interested in using TAUCS a library of sparse linear solvers. TAUCS is among the most used libraries of sparse linear solvers and, to my knowledge, its closest equivalent library is SuperLU. For your reference, TAUCS is used in the commercial software Mathematica by Wolfram Research. Its source code can be downloaded from

http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/taucs

I have an opening for a post-doctoral position starting early next year (Jan 2009) in the broad area of multi-scale mechanics of nano-crystalline (nc) materials. The focus will be on microstructure mediated failure processes in nc materials primarily using continuum mechanics based approaches, but informed by materials science.

If you are interested, please send me (shailendra[at]nus[dot]edu[dot]sg) your CV and the names of at least two references.

Thanks,

~Shailendra