We have several postdoctoral positions opening now and in the coming months. We are especially interested in candidates with backgrounds in theoretical biomechanics who are interested in conducting bench experiments. These positions will focus on our efforts to recapitulate organ-level function on microchips for drug discovery and physiological studies.

We recently developed a numerical frame work, attached, to model 3D crack growths under mixed mode loadings. The result is validated by FULL Eshelby's solution we formulated with Matlab http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300411002378.

We want to validate the model experimentally, e.g. fracturing test using transparent materials. If you find it interesting, please comment.

Although the theory of electrodynamics has been around for a long time, its fundamental geometrical character has not been understood.  My knowledge in continuum mechanics, especially vortex theory in fluid mechanics and rigid body dynamics, has enabled me to complete the theory of relativity and reveal the hidden geometric character of electrodynamics.  Amazingly, everything in electrodynamics is about rotation, vorticity and mean curvature.  

I am seeking a postdoctoral position in the areas of acoustics and ultrasonics. My name is
Abdelhak El Mouhtadi and I completed my Ph.D. in Acoustics and
Ultrasonic NDE at le Havre University (France) in December 2011.

You can find my research statement and curriculum vitae in the attachments.

Kind Regards

The Dept. of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT) seeks applications for Assistant/Associate Professor openings in the broad areas of Structural Mechanics, Aerodynamics, and Flight Mechanics and Control.  For more details, visit www.ae.iitm.ac.in.  Last date:7 May, 2012.

Dear friends and colleagues,

This is to inform you of the minisymposium

Plasticity: Bridging the Scales from Micro to Macro

to be organized at the 22nd International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials (IWCMM XXII) and request you to consider submitting an abstract. The workshop will be held in Baltimore, MD, USA during September 24-26, 2012.

Description
of the position:

This
PhD position is potentially available at the doctoral school MEGA of
INSA Lyon.

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The
funding will be assigned only after a competition and consists of a
net monthly salary of almost 1450 Euros for three years. This
competition will take place in Lyon during the month of june 2012.
Eventual travel expenses could be reimbursed to the pre-selected
candidate if coming from abroad.

Subject:

This is the preprint of an article that has appeared in JMPS (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2012.09.008)

Symmetry-Adapted Phonon Analysis of Nanotubes

by Amin Aghaei and Kaushik Dayal, Carnegie Mellon University; Ryan Elliott, University of Minnesota

Abstract