A position exists, for a Research Assistant/Associate in the Department of Engineering, to conduct research into the mechanics of lattice materials. The post holder will be located in Central Cambridge Cambridgeshire, UK.
https://www.iit.it/careers/openings/opening/1151-1-post-doc-position-fo…
To be started soon. Contact me for further information at michele.scaraggi [at] iit.it
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An excellent student with research expertise and interest in molecular dynamics simulation and theory of mechanical and/or thermal transport properties in nanomaterials such as nanowires, bulk nanotwinned metals and graphene, is sought to fill a new PhD opening in my group starting in Fall 2012. Interested students should send me a detailed CV with a description of past research achievements and the names of references to frederic.sansoz [at] uvm.edu.
As scientists, we like to think our theories are built on a large body of directly observed phenomena, but we can directly observe only a few, primitive things, like the relative position of two objects -- and even that is called into question by modern physics! Instruments that measure abstract quantities like force and temperature depend on the validity of an underlying theory. For example, a scale provides a useful measurement of weight only if we accept a certain definition of weight. Such definitions are objectively arbitrary, because they can only be ranked in terms of usefulness.
In an inaugural article in the latest issue of PNAS, George C Schatz writes on Using theory and computation to model nanoscale properties. Here is the abstract of the article:
