Start Date: Spring, Summer, or Fall 2026
School of Packaging, Michigan State University
https://www.canr.msu.edu/packaging/about_the_school/

📢 Call for Abstracts 📢
Mini symposium Applications of Advanced Numerical Analyses in Oil and Gas Industry, WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 
 
Organizers: Allan Zhong (Halliburton), Amandine Battentier (SLB), Haitao Zhang (SLB)
 
I’m excited to announce that our mini symposium proposal has been accepted for the upcoming WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 Congress that will be held in Munich, Germany from 19-24 July 2026! 🎉
 

``UNIFIED MICROMECHANICS THEORY of Composites” (UMTC) by Buryachenko is proposed for analyses of composite materials (CMs) of either matrix random (statistically homogeneous or inhomogeneous probability descriptors), periodic, or deterministic (neither random nor periodic) structures, endowed with local, weakly nonlocal (higher-grade, higher-order, or micromorphic models), strongly nonlocal (strain-type or displacement-type, peridynamics), or multiphysics phase properties. 

The 20th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC-TAM 2026) will be held on June 21–25, 2026, in Pasadena, California. We are pleased to invite submissions to our mini-symposium:

MS 208 - Data-Driven Approaches for Solid Mechanics

organized by Qizhi He (U of Minnesota), Jiun-Shyan Chen (UC San Diego), WaiChing Sun (Columbia), and Nikolaos Vlassis (Rutgers U).

The 20th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC-TAM 2026) will be held on June 21–25, 2026 in Pasadena, California. Together with Shaoting Lin, Ruobing Bai, and Berkin Dortdivanlioglu, we are organizing the mini-symposium 403 - Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials. You are invited to submit an abstract to our mini-symposium by Jan 15, 2026.
https://www.usnctam26.org/home

A PhD position is  available in the group of Prof. Stefano Gonella at the University of Minnesota. The position is in the general area of mechanics and physics of solids, with emphasis on mechanical and elastic metamaterials and wave physics. 

Current topics of interest include:

1)       Topological mechanics and metamaterials

2)       Optimization of metamaterials

3)       Multiphysics aspects of metamaterials

The University of Vermont (UVM) invites applications for PhD student positions to work with Professors Michael J. Leamy and Jihong Ma as part of the National Science Foundation’s New Frontiers of Sound (NewFoS) Science and Technology Center. 

This opportunity focuses on research in acoustic, electroacoustic, and elastic topological insulators and metamaterials, with applications in radio frequency devices, communication systems, and non-traditional computing. 

Context

As part of a collaborative project between 

1) MSC Software Belgium SA, 

2) SIRRIS and

3) University of Liège, 

the main objective of the positions will be to develop numerical methodologies in the context of 

1) Multi-scale methods

2) Stochastic approaches

3) Machine learning approaches 

to predict the response of recycled thermoplastic composites.

PhD opportunity