Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring your attention to our latest PNAS paper which
was just published on-line in Early Edition. This paper focused
on the protection mechanism of the unique snail (Crysomallon squamiferum) shell from deep-sea hydrothermal environment. It is an Open Access Article. You can download it freely by clicking HERE or the attachment.

The Nanobrücken Nanomechanical Testing Workshop, Feb 24-26, 2010 at INM Saarbrücken in Germany, aims to bring together researchers from the international nanomechanical community in a forum that highlights both techniques and applications. The workshop features an outstanding lineup of keynote and invited speakers. We cordially invite you to attend and encourage you to participate with a contributed oral or poster presentation.

dear Friend



I am comparing italian universities with Russian ones with US and with Cuban ones. Then I need some figures.



I have been able for example to find that there are about 50% of students-workers in Russia, what about US?

I mean full time workers, not just part time.



But I need to know more about these questions:-

1) how did the number of students in the last 10 years vary?  Increased?

2) how many students are doing economics or management - related subjects?

hello everyone

A question how is possible in the same material and in the same temprature we observe some different material properties? as we can see in shape alloy effect? I appreciate if somebody give me some clues as a light to shed the research way. thank you in advance.

I’ve just come back from a Winter School on Dielectric Elastomer Transducers, held at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, 10-16 January 2010.  Lectures were given by various people, covering the theory of electromechanical interaction, design of devices, development of materials, and technologies of manufacturing.  I was asked to give three lectures on the theory.  I attach the slides of my lectures.

I am going to Modena on Monday to talk to my collegues in the Millechili lab (MilleChili means 1000Kg in italian)

1. AtC, atomistic-to-continuum coupling, included in LAMMPS

2. BDM, bridging domain method, included in LibMultiScale

3. MMM, multiresolution multiscale mechanics method

NSF Summer Institute Short Course on

Mechanics of Soft Materials

Co-sponsored by

The Intrenational Union of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) and

The US National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (US/NCTAM)

Organizers: Yonggang Huang and Wing Kim Liu, Northwestern University

Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, 60201

Dates: May 10 (Monday) morning to May 12 (Wednesday) morning 2010

I will be setting up an open source project for parallel finite element analysis in the next month or two. I am just wondering what the community's opinion is regarding the best repository to use.

SourceForge? Google Software? Others?

Your opinions are welcome.