Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, Switzerland 11-15 September 2011

For more information, go to www.tc4pca.elsevier.com

Every year I try to get funding for things that I'm personally interested in but which may not have any immediate economic benefits.  A couple of years ago, after reading Penrose's "Road to Reality", I thought about applying Clifford algebra ideas to fracture mechanics and wrote up a proposal to that effect.  The proposal wasn't funded, but I think the idea is worth exploring.

The summary of the proposal was

Naturally negative bulk modulus material.

Negative Linear Compressibility and Massive Anisotropic Thermal Expansion in Methanol Monohydrate

Professors John Rogers and Ares Rosakis were elected to NAE, among the 68 new NAE members. 

John A. Rogers, Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering, department of materials science and engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For novel electronic and optoelectronic devices and systems.

The Dynamical Systems Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University is seeking to recruit multiple Post-Doctoral fellows and Ph.D. students in fluid-structure interactions, mechanics of composite materials, and vibrations.

Dear Colleagues, 

We would like to invite you to participate in the symposium on "Advances in modeling and applications of cellular solids" at the ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference, McMAT-2011. The conference will be held in Chicago, IL from May 31 to June 2, 2011.

More information about the conference is available at:

http://www.asmeconferences.org/McMat2011/index.cfm  

Hi all

      What is the difference between plastic deformation and Elasto-plastic deformation? Thank you all.

Dear all:



The 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) will be held in November 11-17, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. As the topic co-chair, I hope to get you involved at the Congress. Abstract submission is now open and the deadline is on February 28, 2011.

We welcome abstracts corresponding to the description as follows:

There is an opening for a PhD student in computational materials science starting summer/fall 2011 in the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University (http://www.cavs.msstate.edu/). This center works closely with the Mechanical Engineering Department at Mississippi State University (http://www.me.msstate.edu/people.htm).