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Funded Ph.D. positions are available in Dr. Liu's group (https://xinliugroup.weebly.com) in the Industrial, Manufacturing, & Systems Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). The students will also work with the Institute for Predictive Performance Methodology (IPPM) at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI). Self-motivated individuals who have research experience in one or more of the following areas are strongly encouraged to apply for the Ph.D. positions. 

Assistant Professor position in Structural Mechanics at DICCA - University of Genoa (Italy)

The DICCA - Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering of the University of Genova, Italy is launching new research lines in the field of Solid and Structural Mechanics (ICAR08 – Scienza delle Costruzioni). In view of the forthcoming opening of a fixed-term position (3-years extendable to 5) of Assistant Professor (RTDA – Ricercatore a Tempo determinato (A)), the Department invites expressions of interest from qualified scholars.

The USACM has established a virtual seminar series that will run for six weeks over the course of this summer.  Exact dates and times will vary each week, but a full listing of the speakers is available here:

https://www.usacm.org/seminar-series

The series features young computational mechanicians from across the US.  The talks are an opportunity for these young scientists to showcase their research activities during a period in which so many conferences and meetings are being cancelled or postponed.  

This collection of videos was created in ~1969 to explain fluid mechanics in an accessible way for undergraduate engineering and physics students. See http://web.mit.edu/hml/notes.html for notes associated with these videos.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk40PnWhv4dXMs70td05Ij-3fwLFMDA8t

In these Messenger Lectures on "The Character of Physical Law," originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded by BBC Nov. 9-19, 1964, physicist Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. From 1945 to 1950, Feynman taught theoretical physics at Cornell. He went on to accept a professorship at Caltech and was named co-winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics.

Admissions in Fall 2020 to the PhD program at Mahindra University are open. Application deadline is 20 June.

Please visit the following webpage for more details:

https://www.mahindraecolecentrale.edu.in/programs/phd

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341816480_A_nonlocal_physics-i…

Dear iMechanica Community: 

20 million views in YouTube. High-speek camera captures how a Shaolin Master throws a needle through glass. Dynamic brittle facture in slow mo. 

Like this video? Check out other iMechanica Videos in the "Mechanics in slow mo" playlist. If you don't see it, you don't get it.

Challenge yourself to snap a spaghetti stick in half by bending two ends. It always snaps into three or more pieces, but not two. But why? Indeed this phenomenon has puzzled many people, including the great Richard Feynman, for many years. The puzzle was only solved in recent years. Slow mo videos by ultrahigh speed camera reveal why. Check out this iMechanica Video with 6+ million view on YouTube.