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Postdoctoral Positions in Cell Biomechanics at Harvard

Submitted by kkparker on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 01:46

The Disease Biophysics Group in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has a postdoctoral fellowship available for PhD/DSc scientists with backgrounds in cellular biomechanics. The applicants should have training in cell tissue culture, microscopy, and assays for probing the mechanical properties of cells, such as traction force microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and/or the use of magnetic tweezers.

Applicants should forward their CV (pdf) and examples of up to three manuscripts (pdf). Please have three references emailed to Professor Parker directly.

Post-Doctoral Fellowships with Dr. T. Belytschko at Northwestern University

Submitted by Robert Gracie on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 22:17

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postdoc

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We are no longer accepting applications for these positions. Qualified applicants will be contacted in the near future.

Thank you for your interest,

Robert Gracie

Need Help for modeling concrete in abaqus

Submitted by m_meisam on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 16:42

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Dear Friends!

I'm Student of civil engineering in master's degree and I wanna model the plastic behavior of concrete under the blast load!

Now I need the plastic propertis of concrete!

If anyone of you have any information or any *.py file about the above topic please help me!

Hope for your help!

Regards

Meisam M.

Reminder - abstract submission date for 7th IC Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials

Submitted by Dean Eastbury on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 12:44

The abstract submission deadline for this next conference in the biennial Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials series (www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com) is 28 November 2007.

The conference will take place will take place in Hyannis, MA, USA, 14-19 September 2008. Hyannis is located on the beautiful Cape Cod peninsula just 90 minutes from Boston's Logan International Airport and T.F.Green Airport in Providence.

For a nanosystem the second law of thermodynamics is still effective

Submitted by Yuhuai Zhang on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 02:37

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thermodynamics

For a nanosystem,the total number of atoms(say less than 100),I want to knom In such a system the second law of thermodynamics is still effective ?

ES 240 (Fall 2007) Computer Assignment

Submitted by Nanshu Lu on Sun, 11/04/2007 - 22:13

This computer assignment is due Friday, Nov. 16, 2007

Jokes for serious people

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on Sun, 11/04/2007 - 20:34

AM 105a

This semester I'm teaching an undergraduate course on functions of a complex variable. A student has just sent me a message:

Q: Why did the mathematician name his dog "Cauchy"?

A: Because the dog left a residue at every pole.

* * * *

I received an email several weeks ago with the following quote:

Research on meshless methods and comparison between these methods

Submitted by sadook on Sun, 11/04/2007 - 18:55

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Hello everybody,

I am doing a research on meshless methods and I want to know about these methods, the difference between these methods and the method the most used and if it is possible, I want to get some codes of these methods.

Thank you,

Cordially,

Sadok BLANCO,

Tunisia Polytechnic School,