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We are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the RAM3 workshop - Recent Advances in the Mechanics and Mathematics of Materials, which will take place in Rome on the 21st and 22nd of February 2024 at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of Sapienza University.

We investigate the mechanics and stability of a nanoscale origami crease via a combination of equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. We identify an entropic torque on nanoscale origami creases, and find stability properties have a nontrivial dependence on bending stiffness, radii of curvature of its creases, ambient temperature, its thickness, and its interfacial energy.

Glad to share that the University of Pavia, together with Politecnico di Milano, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and University of Bologna, organizes the International Summer School “Mechanics of active soft materials: experiments, theory, numerics, and applications” within the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, from 1^st to 5^th July 2024 at Villa del Grumello (Como, Italy). https://star.lakecomoschool.org/

I would like to bring your attention to four ASME awards and we welcome your nominations. The deadline is fairly soon on February 1!  

Society awards given by ASME Materials Division:

The DoD HPC Modernization Program has high-performance computing internship opportunities at the Air Force Research Laboratory. These internships give undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to perform scientific, computational research alongside AFRL researchers in support of the US Air Force’s mission.

Dr. Jan Fuhg has just joined UT Austin as an assistant professor. He has a postdoc position in computational solid mechanics and physics-informed machine learning. Please see attached file for details and contact Dr. Fuhg (jan.fuhg [at] utexas.edu) if you are interested.

If you design laminated structures, such as sandwich panels, you might be interested in knowing that the through-the-thickness normal stress, properly disregarded in homogeneous structures, may play a fundamental role in triggering delamination.

Dear Colleagues, 

within the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2024) to be held in Daegu, South Korea, 25-30 Aug 2024, Henrik M. Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark) and myself are organising the Thematic Session 'SM12 - Plasticity, viscoplasticity and creep'. 

We would like to invite you to contribute to this Thematic Session. 

The Extended Abstract Submission is open until January 15, 2024.

Best regards,