March 2012 - Msepostdoc-list

Fwd: MSE Head Finalists (sent on behalf of Tom Shih)
by Donna Bystrom 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Dear colleagues, On behalf of the search committee, it is my pleasure to announce the candidates who will be interviewing for the position of Head of the School of Materials Engineering. ** *Rajendra K. Bordia* Professor of Materials Science and Engineering University of Washington *April 4-5* *John Kieffer* Professor of Materials Science and Engineering University of Michigan *April 11-12*** *Chang-Beom Eom* Harvey D. Spangler Distinguished Professor in Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison *April 23-24*** *David F. Bahr* Director and Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University *May 2-3* Best regards, Tom -- Tom Shih Chair, MSE Head Search Committee Professor and Head of Aeronautics& Astronautics Engineering

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Fwd: Dennis & Leslie Drag Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday, April 2nd
by Donna Bystrom 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

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Revised Matthias Ehmke Ph.D. prelim part I
by Donna Bystrom 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

-------- Original Message -------- Received: via dmail-2010.19 for bystrom; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:54:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on materials.ecn.purdue.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE, HTML_OBFUSCATE_05_10,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from mx01.ecn.purdue.edu (mx01.ecn.purdue.edu [128.46.154.8]) by materials.ecn.purdue.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2RJsAMk007385 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for <bystrom(a)materials.ecn.purdue.edu>; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:54:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailhub128.itcs.purdue.edu (mailhub128.itcs.purdue.edu [128.210.5.128]) by mx01.ecn.purdue.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2RJrB3C009880 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for <bystrom(a)ecn.purdue.edu>; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:53:11 -0400 Received: from mailbag.ecn.purdue.edu (mailbag.ecn.purdue.edu [128.46.154.187]) by mailhub128.itcs.purdue.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4/mta.smtp.purdue.edu) with ESMTP id q2RJrBIP008209 for <bystrom(a)purdue.edu>; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:53:11 -0400 Received: from mailbag.ecn.purdue.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailbag.ecn.purdue.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2RJrBOp028317; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:53:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailbag.ecn.purdue.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailbag.ecn.purdue.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2RJr8Ct028303 for <msepostdoc-list-owner(a)ecn.purdue.edu>; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:53:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Auto-discard notification From: msepostdoc-list-bounces(a)ecn.purdue.edu To: msepostdoc-list-owner(a)ecn.purdue.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1971186808==" Message-ID: <mailman.683.1332877984.795.msepostdoc-list(a)ecn.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:53:04 -0400 Precedence: bulk X-BeenThere: msepostdoc-list(a)ecn.purdue.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 List-Id: MSE Post-Docs and Visiting Scholars List <msepostdoc-list.ecn.purdue.edu> X-List-Administrivia: yes Errors-To: mailman-bounces(a)ecn.purdue.edu Sender: mailman-bounces(a)ecn.purdue.edu X-PMX-Version: 5.5.9.388399 X-PerlMx-Virus-Scanned: Yes X-ECN-MailServer-VirusScanned: by amavisd-new X-ECN-MailServer-Origination: mailhub128.itcs.purdue.edu [128.210.5.128] X-ECN-MailServer-SpamScanAdvice: DoNotScan The attached message has been automatically discarded.

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Matthias Ehmke PhD prelim part I
by Donna Bystrom 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

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MSE Student Night
by Donna Bystrom 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

This is a reminder for you to sign up on the MSE web site for the MSE Student Night. The original message is below. We need to have numbers in order to have enough food. If you have already done so, we appreciate your promptness. Thanks Donna MSE Student Night will be held on April 26th in the Ross Ade Stadium Press Box. There will be food, senior project posters on display, some industry people to talk to and award presentations. See the attached flyer. In order for us to have enough food we need you to*sign up for the event by April 9th*. The survey to sign up is located on the MSE website. http://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/index.html Look to the right hand side under "News& Events" Click on "MSE Student Night 2012" to bring up the survey that will take you less than a minute to fill out. Hope to see you there. Donna

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Fwd: Gov Connection Packing Slips
by Donna Bystrom 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

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Fwd: Midwest Mechanics Seminar April 4th ARMS 1010 4:30
by Donna Bystrom 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

*Midwest Mechanics Seminar* * April 4^th , 2012 4:30 ARMS Room 1010* *Eliot Fried*** *D**epartment of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University* ** *Stability of a thin elastic film close to a rigid plate* ** *Abstract:* ** *We introduce and study a variational model for the formation of patterns induced by bringing the surface of a rigid plate into contact proximity with the surface of a polymeric film strongly bonded to a substrate. We treat the film as a homogeneous, isotropic, hyperelastic solid and account for both attractive and repulsive van der Waals interactions between the film surface and the proximate contractor. Aside from confiming the intuitive expectation that the presence of a repulsive contribution to the van der Waals potential should stabilize patterns that form on the film surface, we elucidate the role of repulsive interactions at the onset of instability. For a recently proposed van der Waals potential involving two parameters, the Hamaker constant **A **and the equilibrium spacing **d**e**, our results include estimates for the critical gap **d**c **at which undulations appear on the _lm surface, the corresponding wavenumber **k**c **of the undulations, and a lower bound **f **for the attractive force needed to induce the undulations. To leading order, **d**c **~ **(**Ah /**)****1**=**4**, **k**c **~ **1**=h**, and **f**m **~ **(**3**A=h**3**)**1**=**4**, where **h **and ****denote the thickness and infinitesimal shear modulus of the film. Correction terms due to repulsive interactions indicate that, while **k**c **may be influenced by ****and **A**, **d**c **may also be influenced by **d**e**. Granted knowledge of ****and **A**, our results also suggest a simple experimental protocol for determining **d**e**.*** ** *Bio:* ** *Eliot Fried obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from the California Institute of Technology in 1991. He received an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and an NSF Research Initiation Award. Currently he is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Interfacial and Defect Mechanics at McGill University. He previously held positions at Carnegie Mellon University, the Pennsylvania State University, College Park, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Washington University in St. Louis. At Illinois, he was a Fellow of the Center of Advanced Study and was awarded a Critical Research Initiative Grant. His research focuses on the mechanics and thermodynamics of novel materials, including liquid crystals, surfactant solutions, hydrogels, and nanocrystalline alloys.*** **

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Fwd: Auto-discard notification
by Donna Bystrom 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

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Fwd: MSE Student Night
by Donna Bystrom 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

MSE Student Night will be held on April 26th in the Ross Ade Stadium Press Box. There will be food, senior project posters on display, some industry people to talk to and award presentations. See the attached flyer. In order for us to have enough food we need you to*sign up for the event by April 9th*. The survey to sign up is located on the MSE website. http://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/index.html Look to the right hand side under "News& Events" Click on "MSE Student Night 2012" to bring up the survey that will take you less than a minute to fill out. Hope to see you there. Donna

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Fwd: [engap-list] Pritsker Scholars Distinguished Lecture
by Donna Bystrom 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

cid:image001.jpg@01CD003B.64B7A5C0 *The Pritsker Scholars Distinguished Lecture Series* is proud to present its 2012 speaker: ** *Dr. Lee W. Schruben, Ph.D.* Chancellor’s Professor Industrial Engineering and Operations Research University of California, Berkeley *Friday, April 13, 2012* Stewart Center 306 *Please join us for a reception at 1:30 p.m. ET* *The lecture begins at 2:00 p.m. ET* Please *R.S.V.P*. by *4/5/2012* vhaddock(a)purdue.edu <mailto:vhaddock@purdue.edu> or 765-496-7827 *Abstract:* *Don’t Try This in The Real World.* Simulation models provide virtually unlimited power; or rather, they provide unlimited virtual power. If you can think of something, you can simulate it. Experimenting in a simulated world, you can change anything, in any way, at any time - even change time itself. Simulators are gods, ruling in time and space over parallel universes of their own creation. Purdue is at the center of these simulated universes, the Big Bang(s) happened here. The first steps to using the powers of simulation is to be aware of them and their origins. "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens." - Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) *Biographical Sketch: * Lee W.Schruben is a Chancellor’s Professor, and former Chair, in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty, he was on the Operations Research and Information Engineering faculty at Cornell where he held the A. Schultz Professorship in Engineering. His interests are in simulation modeling and analysis with a broad range of applications, currently focusing on biopharmaceutical manufacturing and emergency health care. He spent his first sabbatical year and several summers teaching and doing research with Alan Pritsker and others in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. rethink IE.blue w black outline.jpg

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