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2025 Themes and Discussion Leaders

January, Sustainability in Soft Material Engineering: From Manufacturing to Performance, During Service Life and End-of-Life Considerations, Eleftheria Roumeli (University of Washington)
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2024 Themes and Discussion Leaders

January, Machine Learning in Experimental Solid Mechanics: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities, Hanxun Jin (California Institute of Technology), Horacio D. Espinosa (Northwestern University)
February, Mechanics in Solid-State Batteries: Mechanical Properties, Interfacial Failure, and Multiphysics Modeling, Juner Zhu (Northeastern University)
March, Unveiling Spatiotemporal Deformation and Dynamics of Soft Materials at Extremely High Rates through Laser-Induced Inertial Cavitation, Jin Yang (University of Texas, Austin)
April, The Mechanics and Mechanisms of Hydrogen Embrittlement, Emilio Martínez-Pañeda (University of Oxford)
May, Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Nonlinear Properties, Bolei Deng (Georgia Institute of Technology)
June, Material strength under high dynamic pressures, Suraj Ravindran (University of Minnesota)
July, Size-Segregation in Dense, Bidisperse Granular Materials, Harkirat Singh (California Institute of Technology), David Henann (Brown University)
August, Full Field Observations Bring New Insight in Rubber Elasticity, Angkur Shaikeea, Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge)
September, Understanding Tunable Dry Adhesion Mechanics for Robotic Manipulation, Wanliang Shan (Syracuse University)
October, Anomalous Mechanics of Liquid Crystal Elastomers, Lihua Jin (University of California, Los Angeles)
November, Manufacturing and Testing of Origami-Based Metamaterials, Diego Misseroni (Università degli Studi di Trento)
December, TBD, Ke Liu (Peking University)

2023 Themes and Discussion Leaders

January, Design and 3D Printing of Continuous Fiber Composites: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities, Kai Yu (University of Colorado Denver)
February, Understanding Engineering Alloy Behavior by Combining 3D X-ray Characterization and Finite Element Modeling, Darren Pagan (Pennsylvania State University), Romain Quey (École Nationale Supérieure des Mines Saint-Étienne), Matthew Kasemer (The University of Alabama)
March, Operando characterization of additive manufacturing process using high energy synchrotron source, Atieh Moridi (Cornell University)
April, Material Testing 2.0, Fabrice Pierron (University of Southampton)
May, Strength Revisited: One of Three Basic Ingredients Needed for a Complete Macroscopic Theory of Fracture, Oscar Lopez-Pamies (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
June, A perspective on the role of machine learning in constitutive modeling and computational mechanics, Nikolas Bouklas (Cornell University)
July, A Space-Time Odyssey - Taming Exceptional Points in Elastodynamics for Sensitivity and Emissivity Enhancement and Asymmetric Wave Steering, Ramathasan Thevamaran (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
August, Attractors in stressed granular materials, Yida Zhang (University of Colorado, Boulder)
September, Recent trends and open challenges in soft tissue biomechanics constitutive modeling, Adrian Tepole (Purdue University)
October, Dynamic Behavior of Ceramics, Ceramic Composites, and Structures: Experimental and Computational Mechanics to Inform Advanced Manufacturing, James Hogan (University of Alberta)
November, Top-down multi scale damage mechanics, Chloé Arson (Cornell University)
December, Recent trends in modeling of asperity-level wear, Jean-François Molinari (EPFL)

2022 Themes and Discussion Leaders

January, Cylindrical Origami: From Foldable Structures to Versatile Robots, Hanqing Jiang (Westlake University)
February, Deformation Engineering of Van der Waals Materials, SungWoo Nam (University of California, Irvine)
March, Liquid Nanofoam: Past, Present and Future, Weiyi Lu (Michigan State University)
April, On-body Mechano-acoustics, Xiaoyue Ni (Duke University)
May, Machine learning in mechanics: curating datasets and defining challenge problems, Emma Lejeune (Boston University)
June, Computational mechanics for local-scale modeling of coastal hazards, Ajay B Harish (University of Manchester)
July, Liquid crystal elastomers: programming, multifunctionality, and opportunities, Xueju "Sophie" Wang (University of Connecticut)
August, The route towards engineered multifunctional hair and fur, Sameh H. Tawfick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
September, Mechanics of soft network materials, Yihui Zhang (Tsinghua University)
October, A Mechanical Approach to Shape, Flow, and Mechanoperception in Plants, Jean-François Louf (Auburn University)
November, Entropy-driven mechanics of crystalline and biological membranes, Fatemeh Ahmadpoor (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
December, Order or disorder in microstructures and microarchitectures: Which is better for mechanical performance?, Francois Barthelat (University of Colorado, Boulder)

2021 Themes and Discussion Leaders

January, 3D Printing of Soft Materials, Qi (Kevin) Ge (Sourthern University of Science and Technology)
February, Deformation, instability, and assembly of materials by dynamic solid-liquid interactions, Baoxing Xu (University of Virginia)
March, Kirigami metamaterials as a robotic matter, Ahmad Rafsanjani (University of Southern Denmark)
April, Variational phase-field modeling of brittle and cohesive fracture, Vinh Phu Nguyen (Monash University) and Jian-Ying Wu (South China University of Technology)
May, Strong and tough hydrogels with hierarchical architectures, Ximin He (University of California, Los Angeles)
June, Viscoelastic metamaterials, Corentin Coulais (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
July, Computational Design of Compliant Mechanisms, Cynthia Sung (University of Pennsylvania)
August, Electromechanics of Polyelectrolytes, Meredith Silberstein (Cornell University)
September, Phononic materials: controlling elastic waves in solids, Kathryn Matlack (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
October, Mechanobiology and Mechanomedicine: tuning the tension in the life, Baohua Ji (Zhejiang University)
November, Machine Learning Potential for Atomistic Simulation, Wei Gao (University of Texas at San Antonio)
December, Bio-Inspired 3D Printed Sutures Under Shear, Yaning Li (Northeastern University)

2020 Themes and Discussion Leaders

January, Mechanics of Robotic Matter, Chiara Daraio (California Institute of Technology)
February, Machine Learning in Mechanics: simple resources, examples & opportunities, Miguel A. Bessa (Delft University of Technology)
March, Molecular Simulation-Guided and Physics-Informed Multiscale Modeling of Polymer Viscoelasticity, Ying Li (University of Connecticut)
April, Curvature-Affected Instabilities in Membranes and Surfaces, Fan Xu (Fudan University)
May, Correlative microscopy reveals deformation mechanisms of polycrystalline metals using AZ31 Mg alloy as a model material, Kelvin Xie (Texas A&M University)
June, Mechanically instructive biomaterials: a synergy of mechanics, materials and biology, Jianyu Li (McGill University)
July, Fatigue-resistant hydrogels: Principles, Experiments, and Applications, Shaoting Lin (MIT)
August, Mechanics of High-capacity Rechargeable Batteries, Matt Pharr (Texas A&M University)
September, The Biofilm Matrix - A Living Engineering Material, Jingjie Yeo (Cornell University)
October, Toughening Transparent Ceramics with Bio-inspired Architectures, Zhen Yin (McGill University, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
November, Hydrogel Ionotronics: Principles, Materials and Applications, Canhui Yang (Southern University of Science and Technology)
December, 3D Printing of Batteries: Fabrication, Materials and Challenges, Changyong Cao (Michigan State University)

2019 Themes and Discussion Leaders

January, Nanoprecipitation strengthening in high entropy alloys, Xiaoyan Li (Tsinghua University, China)
February, Stretchable Chemical Templates: New Tools for the Fabrication of Polymer Microstructures and Actuators, Stephen Morin (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
March, Fatigue of hydrogels, Ruobing Bai (California Institute of Technology)
April, Self-healing soft materials: from theoretical modeling to additive manufacturing, Qiming Wang (University of Southern California)
May/June, Using Instabilities to Control Soft Robots, Philipp Rothemund (University of Colorado Boulder)
July, Cohesive strength, interfacial toughness, and their roles in the adhesion of ice, Michael Thouless (University of Michigan)
August, Instabilities in Soft Composites, Stephan Rudykh (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
September, Hydrogel 3D printing with the capacitor edge effect, Tongqing Lu (Xi’an Jiaotong University)
October, A Metamaterial Approach to Soft Robotics, Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University)
November, Stretchy Electronics for Soft Robotics, Martin Kaltenbrunner (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
December, Magnetic Soft Materials and Robots: Design (Code), Applications and Future Directions, Xuanhe Zhao (MIT)

2018 Themes and Discussion Leaders

January, Recent advances in liquid crystal elastomers, Shengqiang Cai (University of California San Diego)
February, HASEL artificial muscles for high-speed, electrically powered, self-healing soft robots, Christoph Keplinger (University of Colorado Boulder)
March, Colloidal self-assembly of architected nanomaterials, Wendy Gu (Stanford University)
April, Friction of atomically-thin sheets, Qunyang Li (Tsinghua University, China)
May, Icephobic materials, Jianying He (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
June, Modeling dislocation mediated plasticity using meso-scale discrete dislocation dynamics, Ill Ryu (University of Texas at Dallas)
July, Mechanics using quantum mechanics, Phanish Suryanarayana (Georgia Institute of Technology)
August, X-mechanics: An endless frontier, Hongtao Wang (Zhejiang University, China)
September, Nanomechanics of covalent crystals and elastic strain engineering, Yang Lu (City University of Hong Kong)
October, Ruga mechanics of thin sheets: wrinkling, crumpling, and folding, Teng Zhang (Syracuse University)
November, Beyond piezoelectricity: Flexoelectricity in solids, Jiawang Hong (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
December, Bonding hydrophilic and hydrophobic soft materials for functional soft devices, Qihan Liu (Harvard University)

2017 Themes and Discussion Leaders

January, Stress Guided Advanced 3D Microfabrication, Sheng Xu (UCSD)
February, Nanoscale buckling in 2D materials, Yong Ni (University of Science and Technolgoy of China)
March, Architected materials, Sung Hoon Kang (JHU)
April, Multiscale and Multiphysics Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing of Gas Tight Shale, Congrui Jin (SUNY Binghamton)
May, Ionic Electrodes for Dielectric Elastomer Actuators, Michael Tolley (UCSD)
June, 3D-printing biomimetic structures to reveal the mechanics of natural systems, Michael Porter (Clemson)
July, Geometrically nonlinear microstructured materials for mechanical wave tailoring, Nicholas Boechler (University of Washington)
August, Fracture mechanics of soft dissipative materials, Rong Long (University of Colorada, Boulder)
September, Some recent developments in constitutive modeling of glassy polymers,Alireza Amirkhizi (UMass, Lowell)
October, Multiscale modeling and simulation of active matter,Tong Gao(Michigan State University)
November, In-situ mechanics experiments on battery materials, Kejie Zhao (Purdue)
December, Mechanics of living mammalian cytoplasm, Ming Guo(MIT)

2016 Themes and Discussion Leaders

January, Extreme Mechanics on the Surface of our Planet, Ahmed Elbanna (UIUC)
February, Deformation Mechanics of Granular Materials: Local Deformation of Polymer-bonded Sugar at High Strain Rate Loading, Addis Kidane (University of South Carolina)
March, When mechanics meets medicine, Shaoxing Qu (Zhejiang University)
April, Boundary conditions in atomistic simulations for extended defects in solids, Chris Weinberg (Drexel University)
May, Recent Progress in Curvilinear Electronics and Mechanics, Jianliang Xiao (University of Colorado at Boulder)
June, 2D Materials: Current and Future Directions, Harold Park (Boston University),
July, Nanomechanics of Large-Volume-Change Materials for Rechargeable Batteries, Shuman Xia (Georgia Tech)
August, Frontiers in Nanocrystalline Mechanical Behavior, Tim Rupert (University of California at Irvine)
September, Developments and challenges in miniaturized in situ experiments – Towards small-scale fracture mechanics, Daniel Kiener (University of Leoben)
October, Roughness evolution of biomaterial surfaces, Henry Tan (University of Aberdeen)
November, 3D Fracture Mechanics at the Atomic Scale, Erik Bitzek (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
December, Dynamic Fracture - when the going gets tough..., Leslie Lamberson (Drexcel University)

Past Themes and Discussion Leaders

Editors

Ruobing Bai (2024, 2025), ru.bai@northeastern.edu
Ryan C. Hurley (2023, 2024), rhurley6@jhu.edu

Past Editors

Baoxing Xu (2022, 2023), bx4c@virginia.edu
Jie Yin (2021, 2022), jyin8@ncsu.edu
Zheng Jia (2020, 2021), zheng.jia@zju.edu.cn
Christoph Keplinger (2019, 2020), Christoph.Keplinger@colorado.edu
Xiaoyan Li (2018, 2019), xiaoyanlithu@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Shengqiang Cai (2017, 2018), s3cai@eng.ucsd.edu
Yong Zhu (2016, 2017), yzhu7@ncsu.edu
Teng Li (2015, 2016)
Vicky Nguyen (2014, 2015)
Xuanhe Zhao (2013, 2014)
Katia Bertoldi (2012, 2013)
Xiaodong Li (2011, 2012)
Xi Chen (2010, 2011)
John E. Dolbow (2009, 2010)
Michelle L. Oyen (2008, 2009)
Pradeep Sharma, Founding Editor (2007, 2008)

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