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ICoBT 2020 - 5th International Conference on BioTribology - Abstract submission now open

Submitted by MMcA2 on

Abstract submission deadline: 10 April 2020

Early-bird registration deadline: 26 June 2020

For full details and to submit your abstract visit www.elsevier.com/biotribology-conference

 

We are very pleased to announce the 5th International Conference on BioTribology (ICoBT 2020) will be held at the beautiful location of Royal Holloway, University of London in Egham, Surrey, UK, 13-16 September 2020.

 

PhD position in Computational Fracture Mechanics of porous media at Imperial College London (UK applicants only)

Submitted by Emilio Martíne… on

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship at Imperial College London. The work will be conducted in close collaboration with the University of Cambridge, with the student being supervised by Dr ​​​​Emilio Martínez Pañeda (main supervisor), Prof Catherine O'Sullivan (Imperial College) and Prof Norman Fleck FRS FREng (University of Cambridge). 

The project aims at developing new theoretical and computational micromechanics-based models for rocks and porous media. More details of the project are given here:

ASME Robert Henry Thurston Lecture at IMECE 2019

Submitted by Yihui Zhang on

Professor Yonggang Huang from Northwestern University will deliver the ASME Robert Henry Thurston Lecture during the IMECE 2019 at Salt Lake City, Utah. The time and location of this lecture is as follows:

TIME: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, November 13 (Wednesday)

LOCATION: Room 151 G, 1st Level, Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center

More information about this lecture can be found in the attached flyer.

Research Associate (PostDoc) in Dislocation Mechanics Modelling for Nuclear Materials, at Imperial College London

Submitted by Daniel S. Balint on

I have a post-doc position for up to 28 months at Imperial College London, working on dislocation mechanics modelling for problems in nuclear materials, advert snippet below, full advert and application from the link below. Closing date 30th October 2019, starting as soon as possible, at least within the next 6 months.

Two open PhD positions in multi-physics process and performance modeling of alloys at the University of Tennessee

Submitted by Timothy Truster on

We have two open PhD position starting in the Fall semester 2020 at the Computational Laboratory for the Mechanics of Interfaces at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville (http://clmi.utk.edu). First research topic centers upon the modeling of texture evolution during processing (e.g. cogging and rolling) of titanium alloys using crystal plasticity and Fast Fourier Transform methods to couple the mesoscale and specimen scale.

In the 100 000 top scientists there is decline of USA, and a jump of China and India

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

Not everyone has noticed, also from our previous studies including a letter to Nature,  that in the list of 100 000 most cited scientists by Ioannides et al. recently published in PLOS Biology, comparing the career database (1996-2017) with that of 2017, composed of around 2% of Italians, all the states we analysed except for Italy and China and India have suffered a decline in the number of researchers present in the 2017 data set compared to even substantial career data (Japan –20% nationally ).