Yesterday, as I was waiting for the rain to stop before I could walk home from work, a stranger accosted me in the lobby of the building.  He asked me what I did, to which I replied "Mechanics".  He mulled over the answer for a bit and asked me to be more specific, at which point I said that we were trying to design materials that could guide waves around objects.  He said "Water waves?".  I replied "All types of waves."  Clearly, common words can mean quite different things to different people.

A rigorous proof for convergence of the Wolf method for calculating electrostatic energy of a periodic lattice is presented. In particular, we show that for an arbitrary lattice of unit cells, the lattice sum obtained via Wolf method converges to the one obtained via Ewald method.

A postdoctoral position is available for a highly
motivated candidate to study the physical principles of cell motility in the
Biophysics Group of the Interfaces & Complex Fluids Lab at the University
of Mons in collaboration with the Bio- and Soft Matter Group of the Institute
of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences at the Université catholique de Louvain.

I would like to bring to your attention the mini-symposium entitled "Computational Mechanics of Semi-flexible Biopolymer Networks" at the 11th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics to be held at the University of Minnesota.

We offer:

•a 3 year post-graduate scholarships for doctoral studies beginning a.s.a.p.

•interesting research work in interdisciplinary international teams

see http://www.grk1554.ovgu.de/



For the candidates:



- excellent engineering students with a good background in continuum mechanics.

- good knowledge of English required

2 Master and PhD student positions are available at Monash University, Sunway Campus in Malaysia on the following areas: 

1. Polymer nanocomposites (Preparation and modeling) (PhD).

2. Electrospinning of nanofibers(Master).

Interested candidates please send  their CV  to yliu [at] clarkson.edu (pooria[dot]pasbakhsh[at]eng[dot]monash[dot]edu[dot]my )

F.Xu, W. Lu and Y. Zhu, ACS Nano, 2011, 5 (1), pp 672–678.

An interview by ACS Nano (Episode 42: January 2011),

http://pubs.acs.org/page/ancac3/audio/index.html

A few vacant positions for Scientists and Senior Scientists are available at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*Star, Singapore.

Responsibilities: Perform industry R&D projects, and work with industry partners to develop research programs.

Qualifications:  

Ph.D in Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Applied Physics.  

Symposium II :

Computational Science of Transport Phenomena in Materials: Methods and Applications

Chair

• Yong-Wei ZHANG, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

Co-Chairs