PACAM XIII will be held in Houston, Texas, USA, hosted by the University of Houston, from 22 to 24 May 2013.

Instabilities of a cylinder wake in a stratified fluid

Mickael Bosco, IRPHE, Marseille, France

IUTAM Bureau Prize for the best lecture in Solid Mechanics by a young scientist

Ultra-high stiffness and damping composites and structures due to constrained mechanical instabilities
Prof. Dennis Kochmann, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

IUTAM Bureau Prize for the best seminar presentation by a young scientist

Molecular simulations of the formation of gold-molecule-gold junctions in moletronics device
Huachuan Wang, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

The ISIMM 2012 - STAMM XVIII Symposium will take place at the Technion, Israel, from 03 to 06 September 2012.

http://ae-www.technion.ac.il/events/stamm

Professor Detlef Lohse

The G K Batchelor Prize for 2012, sponsored by the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, is awarded to Professor Detlef Lohse of the Technical University of Twente, the Netherlands. Professor Lohse receives the prize for his outstanding research on a wide range of fundamental fluid mechanics, including bubble sonoluminescence, turbulent convection, multiphase flow and microfluid dynamics, and for technological applications. Using innovative laboratory experiments, coupled with theoretical and numerical calculations, Professor Lohse has made significant advances that have provided new understanding of the underlying physics of these many different flows. For more information, go to http://journals.cambridge.org/batchelor/2012

Professor Hujan Gao

The Rodney Hill Prize for 2012, founded and sponsored by Elsevier Limited and awarded under the auspices of IUTAM, is awarded to Professor Hujan Gao of Brown University, USA. Professor Gao receives the prize for his deep and broad scientific achievements in basic solid mechanics and its bridge to other fields, which has re-defined the modern frontiers of mechanics research. His work includes fundamental theory as well as applications to materials science, nanotechnology, and bioengineering. His highly cited publications appear not only in the major solid mechanics journals but also in many high-profile, cross-disciplinary journals. For more information, go to www.elsevier.com/wps/find/P07.cws_home/hillprizewinner

The Franklin Institute Awards Program dates back to 1824 and encompasses the Benjamin Franklin Medals in seven disciplines of science and engineering and two Bower Awards – one in Scientific Achievement and one in Business. The list of past Franklin Institute Laureates reads like a Who’s Who in 19th, 20th, and 21st century science and engineering, including luminaries Marie and Pierre Curie, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Max Planck, Orville Wright, Albert Einstein, Marshall Nirenberg, Stephen Hawking, Allen Newell, Ralph Cicerone, Jane Goodall, Don Norman, Steven Squyres and Bill Gates. Recent recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering are: Dean Kamen (2011), D. Brian Spalding (2010), Richard Robbins (2009, Engineering), Merton Flemings (2007), Ray Clough (2006, Civil Engineering), Peter Vail (2005), Roger Bacon (2004), and Charles Thornton (2003, Civil Engineering).

For more information on The Franklin Institute Awards program, please visit: www.fi.edu/franklinawards

The Rodney Hill Prize In Solid Mechanics

Elsevier Limited has established a prize named The Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics. This prize, which consists of a plaque and a check for $25,000 (twenty-five thousand US Dollars), is to be awarded in recognition of outstanding research in the field of solid mechanics. The prize is to be awarded every 4 years, to coincide with the quadrennial International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM). The first prize was awarded at ICTAM 2008 in Adelaide and the second will be awarded at the ICTAM 2012 in Beijing.