The abstract submission deadline for the EMI/PMC 2012 Conference has been extended to January 31, 2012. For details visit 
http://www.nd.edu/~emipmc12/ .

2 PhD Fellowships Fully Funded available £33138 per annum at Cardiff iMAM. Closing date:

13 February 2012

1 Post-Doc £50,467 per annum + monthly mobility allowance. Closing date:

13 February 2012

There is an open position in the Advanced Tire Technology department in Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (www.bridgestone-firestone.com). Please see the attached flyer for details and send resume, if interested, to bfpd [at] bfusa.com (bfpd[at]bfusa[dot]com)

Yang Wei wants to reform attitudes towards research ethics at Zhejiang University and across the country.

Yang Wei has an easy smile and a carefree, even distracted, air — but he takes such a solemn approach to life that his wife sometimes tells him to relax. “I take everything seriously,” he says.

Dear colleagues:

We are looking for a Ph.D. candiate to join the group of Applied Mechanics and Bioengineering  at the University of Zaragoza. The four-year PhD fellowships cover the full tuition, a monthly stipend, and health insurance. 

Attached are some (hand-written) observations on wanting to do continuum mechanics when mass is not conserved for fixed sets of particles of the body (so, situations transcending the rocket-losing-mass type). I feel (un)comfortable with these observations, depending upon the day I think about such things.

All,

    The deadline to submit article for the CSME international congress has been extended to February 17th, 2012. We are organizing a symposium on fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and strongly encourage researchers around the world to submit their research articles relevant to this field. 

More information can be obtained from the following website:  http://umanitoba.ca./engineering/conferences/csme2012/index.html

Dear Colleague:



You are cordially invited to attend Nanobrücken II:  A Nanomechanical Testing Workshop, jointly presented by INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials and Hysitron, Inc., with co-sponsorship from the JEOL company. This is the second workshop in the Nanobrücken series. The workshop's scope has been broadened, and the abstract submission deadline is now February 19, 2012.

This is the preprint of an article that will appear in the Journal of Applied Physics, 111:014106, 2012. (doi:10.1063/1.3674320).

Free Surface Domain Nucleation in a Ferroelectric under an Electrically Charged Tip

by Lun Yang and Kaushik Dayal, Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract