Emerging Topics in Mechanics

Attendees

Fatemeh Ahmadpoor

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology

Haleh Ardebili

Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Eduard Arzt

Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University of California San Diego

Christos E. Athanasiou

Assistant Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

Basile Audoly

Research at CNRS, and Associate Professor at Laboratoire de M´ecanique des Solides, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Roberto Ballarini

Thomas and Laura Hsu Professor and Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston

David Barnett

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University

Theocharis Baxevanis

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Zdeněk Pavel Bažant

McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Northwestern University

Yuri Bazilevs

Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering at Brown University

Markus J Buehler

Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tian Chen

Kamel Salama Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Rodney Clifton

Rush C. Hawkins University Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Brown University

William Curtin

Professor of Engineering at Brown University

Samantha Daly

Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Vikram Deshpande

Professor of Materials Engineering at University of Cambridge

Ben Freund

Professor at the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Julia Greer

Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics, and Medical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology

Pradeep Guduru

Professor of Engineering in the Experimental Solid Mechanics Laboratory at the School of Engineering at Brown University

Yuhang Hu

Associate Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

Yonggang Huang

Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University

Thomas J.R. Hughes

Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Chair in Computational and Applied Mathematics at the Oden Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

John W. Hutchinson

Abbott and James Lawrence Research Professor of Engineering and Senior Research Scientist at Harvard University

Shailendra Joshi

Kalsi Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Haneesh Kesari

Associate Professor of Engineering at Brown University

Kyung-Suk Kim

Professor of Engineering at Brown University

Yashashree Kulkarni

Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Jiaoyan Li

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of Buffalo

Liping Liu

Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Jun Lou

Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University

Kalyana Nakshatrala

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston

Alan Needleman

Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; University Distinguished Professor; Royce E. Wisenbaker ’39 Chair II at Texas A&M University

Thao (Vicky) Nguyen

Professor and Marlin U. Zimmerman, Jr. Faculty Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

Christian Niordson

Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Denmark

William D. Nix

Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University

Pedro Ponte Casteñada

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow at University of Pennsylvania

Yue Qi

Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering at Brown University

J.N. Reddy

Distinguished Professor, Regents’ Professor, and inaugural holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University

James R. Rice

Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University

Ares Rosakis

Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology

Ill Ryu

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Texas at Dallas

M Taher A Saif

Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Pradeep Sharma

Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair & Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Zhigang Suo

Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials at Harvard University

Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

Anna Tarakanova

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Connecticut

Wei Zhai

Assistant Professor of Manufacturing and Materials at National University of Singapore

Teng Zhang

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University

Yongwei Zhang

Principal Scientist and Deputy Executive Director (Research) at A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

Shelly Zhang

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ruike Renee Zhao

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University

Yong Zhu

Andrew A. Adams Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University