Travel Fellowships to ICTAM 2008
U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Announces
Travel Fellowships to ICTAM 2008
Research experience from a physicist
Just back from Prof. Mahir Hussein's seminar. He is really one of best physicist I have ever met. In past 30 years, he published more than 200 papers in the field of nuclear resonance, laser accelerated particles etc. There are more than 30 papers published in PRL alone. When input his name " M.Hussein" in arXiv.org, you can easily found 95 papers by him.
The Future of Conference
Attending conferences is one of the essential professional activities for scientific researchers. Conferences take various forms, such as community-wide meetings (e.g., MRS meetings, ASME congress, APS meetings), and topic-focused meetings/workshops (e.g., Plasticity07, Gordon Research Conferences(GRC)). While people have different preferences on the types of conference to attend (e.g., see a recent iMech poll initiated by Biswajit Banerjee ), here are some common positive driving forces to motivate one to attend a conference:
ISOPE PACOMS 2008 at Bangkok: November 10-13, 2008
The 8th ISOPE Pacific/Asia Offshore Mechanics Symposium (ISOPE PACOMS-2008) is being organized by the ISOPE PACOMS-2008 Symposium Organizing Committee (SOC), and Local Organizing Committee (LOC). It will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, hosted by King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand.
Important dates:
Abstract submission--------> February 15, 2008
Abstract acceptance---------> March 1, 2008
Manuscript for review--------> June 1, 2008
For the details of this symposium, please visit the following websites.
Deformation of Halfring
Forums
I work in gas turbine business and I noticed following phenomena so I would like someone helps me to understand.
I noticed that component made as full ring remains circular after load with outer pressure and temperature gradient (Figure 1) and component made as connection of 2 halfrings (Figure 2) deforms as on Figure 3.
Travel Awards for 2007 ASME Congress
The Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation is offering $1,000 travel grants for U.S. graduate students currently enrolled at any U.S. universities or colleges presenting a paper in any field of applied mechanics at the 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition (IMECE) in Seattle, Washington, November 11 – 15, 2007.
Learning to be a PhD advisor
We professors usually start our jobs unprepared. In our days as students, we are considered talented if we can solve problems posed by our professors. We might be even considered brilliant if we can solve them quickly and make a few extensions. After solving a few such problems, we write a thesis. We are then entrusted with a job as a professor. We soon realize that the skill of solving problems posed by others only plays a minor role in our jobs.
Is the related research field still hot?
Here is another survey of the ISI Web of Science that gives the number of yearly citations to the first 10 papers in the list of Shaofan Li