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Post-Doctoral Position, Brest, France: Analysis of the effects of transfer and storage phases on the behavior of bonded ..

Submitted by MKB on

Post doctoral position at Brest, France.

 Title: Analysis of the effects of transfer and storage phases
on the behavior of bonded joints for SYLDA5 structures

Minisymposium on Electronic-Structure Methods at USNCCM12

Submitted by N. Sukumar on

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to invite you to submit a contribution to a minisymposium that we are organizing on Emerging Methods for Large-Scale Quantum-Mechanical Materials Calculations at the 12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, to be held July 22-25, 2013 in Raleigh, NC. This minisymposium aims to bring together leading researchers in this emerging area to discuss and exchange ideas on new methods developments for density-functional calculations, mathematical analysis, and applications of ab initio methods in electronic-structure calculations.

IOP/Dymat conference on High Speed Imaging for Dynamic testing of Materials and Structures

Submitted by Fabrice Pierron on

The Institute of Physics (IOP, UK) and the Dymat association are co-organizing the 21st Technical Dymat meeting to be held in London, 18-20 November 2013. Information on the conference can be found at:

https://www.eventsforce.net/iop/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=113753&ev…;

The deadline for abstract submission is February 28th 2013.

Symposium on Structure-Property Relationships in Low-dimensional Metallic Nanostructures - MS&T'13 - New deadline on March 31

Submitted by Fred Sansoz on

We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract for the international symposium on Structure-Property Relationships in Low-dimensional Metallic Nanostructures at the MS&T'13 conference in Montreal, Quebec Canada on October 27-31, 2013. 

NOTE: The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to March 31 at http://www.matscitech.org/

Freely jointed chain

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

A single strand of polymer is a chain of a large number of monomers.  The monomers are joined by covalent bonds, and two bonded monomers may rotate relative to each other.  At a finite temperature, the polymer rapidly changes from one configuration to another.  When the two ends of the polymer are pulled by a force, the distance between the two ends changes.  The polymer is known as an entropic spring.