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Postdoctoral Fellow in Origami Materials at McGill University
Open PhD Position – Spring 2026 – Georgia Tech
Thermodynamic State Index and Conditional Phase-Space Entropy
Paper on MechanicsArxiv by Akshay Pakhare, Naba Karan, and Pradeep Guduru: reading sodium storage in hard carbon through stress
Physics-informed neural networks for transient diffusion interface problems: Kolmogorov–Arnold networks versus multilayer perceptrons
Maxwell, Airy and Hill walk into a bar, here is the theorem they write
EML Webinar by Miguel Bessa: Disentangling Uncertainty in AI for Engineering
Call for nominations for the 2026 International Society of Materials Modeling Awards and Honors
Postdoc position at Oxford on experimental materials engineering (mechanical testing of metals, hydrogen embrittlement)
Postdoctoral fellowship in the area of crystal plasticity finite element modeling

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Why is rubber incompressible?
Writing a paper
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in situ Mechanics
tensor and its invariants
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