MAE Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser is awarded
the 2008 American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
Theodore von Karman Medal - Spring 2008
The Engineering Mechanics Division of ASCE awards Sia
Nemat-Nasser, distinguished professor of mechanics and
materials, with the 2008 Theodore von Karman Medal. The
award recognizes Sia for 'exceptional, distinguished and
sustained contributions in the fields of micromechanics,
granular materials, constitutive relations of materials,
stability and dynamic behavior of solids and structures,
and experimental and analytical methods in broad areas of
engineering mechanics'. The medal will be presented during
the Engineering Mechanics Institute's inaugural
International Conference, May 18-21, 2008 in Minneapolis,
NM.
MAE Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff Named a
Russell Severance Springer Distinguished Visiting
Professor - May, 2008
MAE Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff has been named a
Russell Severance Springer Distinguished Visiting Professor
at the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Berkeley,
for the academic year 2008-2009. As part of her
duties she will give a Departmental Lecture and teach a
short graduate course on Dislocation Dynamics, her area of
expertise. Previous Springer Professors in the Solid
Mechanics/Continuum Mechanics areas include L.B. Freund,
G.A.Maugin and K.Rajagopal.
Creating Faster Integrated Circuits by
Slowing Light - April 22, 2008
Two UCSD research groups have merged two previously
unrelated areas of cutting-edge research in optics –
slow light and Anderson localization – and have shown
in a paper published in the journal Nature Photonics that
structures being considered as prime building blocks for
nanophotonic integrated circuits are very susceptible to
the effects of disorder, including Anderson localization.
The new findings were led by UCSD electrical and
Computer Engineering Professor Shayan Mookherjea in
collaboration with UCSD Mechanical Engineering Professor
Prabhakar Bandaru.
MAE Professor Miroslav Krstic elected Fellow of
IFAC - Spring 2008
Miroslav Krstic has been elected Fellow of International
Federation of Automatic Control for "pioneering
contributions to adaptive nonlinear control, extremum
seeking, boundary control of distributed parameter systems,
and control of turbulent fluid flows." Krstic is the the
second professor at UCSD to receive this honor and only
third IFAC Fellow in the UC system (Bob Bitmead and Petar
Kokotovic were elected in 2005). Krstic will be officially
introduced as Fellow of IFAC at this year's IFAC World
Congress in Seoul, Korea, in July.
Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Medal
Established - Spring 2008
The Materials Division of ASME is pleased to announce the
creation of The Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Medal in
honor of Dr. Sia Nemat- Nasser, Director of the Center of
Excellence for Advanced Materials at UC San Diego and
Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials. This
award is given to recognize research excellence in the
areas of experimental, computational, and theoretical
mechanics and materials by young investigators who are
within 10 years after their Ph.D. degree, with special
emphasis placed on under-represented minorities and women.
Information about the award may be found on the
ASME Materials Division, Honors &
Awards website.
MAE Professor Beg Wins 2008 IEEE/NPSS Early
Achievement Award - March 31, 2008
MAE Professor Farhat Beg has been selected as the winner of
the 2008 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS)
Early Achievement Award. The Early Achievement Award
recognizes outstanding contributions to any of the fields
making up Nuclear and Plasma Sciences, within the first ten
years of an individual's career. Professor Beg's citation
reads: "For contributions to the understanding of electron
transport in short pulse high intensity laser matter
interactions and the physics of pulsed power driven
z-pinches.
MAE Professor Eric Lauga receives National
Science Foundation CAREER Award - Mar 7,
2008
Eric Lauga received a NSF CAREER Award from the Division of
Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport
Systems. Professor Lauga's group will develop a
general framework for biological and synthetic locomotion
in complex fluids; provide theoretical evidence that
swimming microorganisms interacting hydrodynamically form a
chaotic dynamical system; propose hydrodynamics
mechanisms contributing to symmetry-breaking in the beat
patterns of oscillating biological filaments; and
lead an ambitious, integrated research and educational
initiative in biological and complex fluids.
MAE Distinguished Professor Sungho Jin is
selected as MRS Fellow - March 2008
Sungho Jin, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science,
has been selected as Fellow of the MRS (Materials Research
Society) for pioneering research on magnetic,
superconducting, environmental, nano and bio materials, and
for significant publications, patents and industrial
applications. The title of MRS Fellow honors scientists who
are notable for their distinguished research
accomplishments and their outstanding contributions to the
advancement of materials research, world-wide. The
inaugural class of Fellows will be recognized at the 2008
MRS Spring Meeting, March 24-28, in San Francisco.
MAE Professor Meyers Receives the 2008
Distinguished Service Award from the Structural Materials
Division of TMS - March 2008
MAE Professor Marc Meyers has received the 2008
Distinguished Service Award from the Structural Materials
Division of TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials
Society). The award will be presented at the Annual
TMS meeting in New Orleans in March 2008. This award
recognizes an individual who has made a long lasting
contribution to the fundamental understanding of
microstructure, properties and performance of structural
materials for industrial applications.
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