Symposium on "Mechanics of Nano-, Bio- and Cellular Materials" at the McMat 2007
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The 2007 ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference (McMat 2007)
Austin, Texas, June 3-7, 2007
http://www.ae.utexas.edu/MCMAT07/
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Modeling elastomers at Medinstill
I am a senior research engineer at Medical Instill Technologies, New Milford, CT. Our company is currently focused on designing and manufacturing innovative dispensing systems for pharmaceutical and nutritional products, and also their filling systems. You may visit our website (http://www.medinstill.com) for more information.
We are currently exploring elastomer-based dispensing systems for fluids of different viscosities. In relation to this project, we are interested in hiring somebody with a doctoral level education and who has exposure to modeling elastomers, particularly elastomer solid mechanics, adhesion between elastomers, and flow of fluids over elastomers.
Web journals threaten peer-review system
The peer review system has been the established way to select publicated research for decades. However, this way of publishing may come to an end.
New developments in this field embrace the idea that research should not be restricted by the iron grip of the journals. The value of the authors work is debated in cyberspace, leading to a number of consequences. Disadvantages include the possibility of a deluge of junk science due to the unfiltered publishing and online abuse concerning unfairly ridiculing rival's work. On the other side scientific discovery could be accelerated and online critiques may help detect mistakes or fraud more quickly.
Already the first initiatives are present, Philica, PLoS (Public Library of Science). Online journals are not boomingly popular, as they have attracted little attention so far. However, possibilities regarding reaching a broad audience in a fast way seem promising...
The 13th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics
Dear Colleagues:
The 13th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM13, http://www.icem13.gr) will be held on July 1-6, 2007 in Alexandroupolis, Greece. It is our pleasure to announce that the Conference will include a special symposium organized by us entitled, “Plasticity, Fracture and Fatigue at the Micro and Nano Scales,” which will focus on recent developments in this area within the larger scope of assessing research needs in a variety of applications of interest.
The Boltzmann Distribution
- A small system in thermal contact with a large system
- The Boltzmann factor
- Partition function
- The probability for a system in thermal equilibrium with a reservoir to be in a specific state
- The probability for a system in thermal equilibrium with a reservoir to be in a configuration
- Thermal fluctuation of an RNA molecule
- A matter of words
Return to the outline of Statistical Mechanics.
Entropy
- A dissection of a sample space
- Entropy of a dissection of a sample space
Temperature
Entropy
Probability
- An experiment that has many possible outcomes
- Construct a sample space at a suitable level of detail
- Probability of an event
- Conditioning
- Independent events
- Random variable
- Use a random variable to specify an event
- Use a random variable to dissect a sample space
- Probability distribution of a random variable
- Variance of a random variable
- A dimensionless measure of the fluctuation of a random variable
Return to the outline of Statistical Mechanics
Statistical Mechanics
Update on 14 December 2019. By now I have taught undergraduate thermodynamics three times at Harvard. I have written up my lecture notes as a book, and posted the book online.
Here are sections that I have now: