Professsor Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar of the University of Texas at Austin has been selected to receive the 2015 Daniel C. Drucker Medal, one of the ASME society awards for achievement.

Kaushik Bhattacharya, Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Professor of Materials Science as well as Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, has been selected to receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Warner T. Koiter Medal.

It is our pleasure to announce that the Conference will host 14 Minisymposia on different aspects of computational solid and fluid mechanics.

It is our pleasure to announce that the X-DMS Conference will be preceded by a short course on EXTENDED DISCRETIZATION METHODS. The course will be held on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8, September 2015 just before the X-DMS2015 Conference.

"3D Inverse Design Method Applied to Turbomachinery Optimization" will be presented along with live software demonstration.

LONDON and Erlangen, Germany – February 20, 2015 – Advanced Design Technology (ADT), a global leader in the development of advanced turbomachinery design methods and the TURBOdesign Suite with offices in London and New York, today announces significant presence at this year prestigious Lehrstuhl fur Stromungsmechanik (LSTM) at the Technical University, Erlangen in Germany on February 24-26, 2015.

This is a quick reminder that abstract submission deadline of McMat2015 is approaching. Please submit your abstract by Feb. 23, 2015 at

Http://www.asmeconferences.org/mcmat2015

Profs. Satya Atluri from UC Irvine, Nancy Sottos from UIUC, and Zhigang Suo from Harvard are confirmed Plenary Speakers for McMat2015. One additional plenary speaker from industry will be announced soon.

The US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) is calling for nominations for the Gallagher Young Investigator Medal.  The description from the USACM Awards page reads:

As part of the USACM's 13th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM13) to be held in San Diego, California, July 26-30, 2015, we are organizing a minisymposium on

advances and applications in Generalized/Extended Finite Element Methods.

Postdoctoral Fellow Positions: Interdisciplinary Projects between University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania and Argonne National Laboratory