News About Our Faculty

(Biographical information on our professors can be found at our Faculty Information Page.)

Amy Alving gave a talk at the APS Fluid Dynamics meeting on thin films and was session chair for turbulent boundary layers. She gave an invited talk at NASA-Ames and at Boeing on turbulent boundary layers and effects of riblets on lift. In addition, she was appointed as a member of the Army Science Board.

Gary Balas gave invited talks at the 1997 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference in New Orleans and American Control Conference in Santa Fe in June and the 2nd IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design in Budapest in June 1997.

Graham Candler gave invited lectures at Princeton University in September 1996 and the University of Maryland in February 1977. He also gave invited papers at the 35th AIAA Aerospace Sciences meeting and exhibit in Reno, January 1997 and at the 32nd AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Atlanta, June 1997.

Roger Fosdick was appointed this year to a three-year term on the Board of Editors of the SIAM, Journal on Applied Mathematics, and has accepted a proposal to take over as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Elasticity, a major international journal in the field of solid mechanics. He was also awarded a C.N.R (Italian National Science Foundation) Visiting Research Professorship at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale, Universita di Bari.

Professor Fosdick was on quarter leave during the spring quarter, 1997. He visited the Istituto di Scienza delle Costruzioni at the Universita di Pisa for part of the time and was a C.N.R. Visiting Professor in the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale at the Politecnico di Bari for part of the time. He gave research lectures and continued his joint collaboration with these two Italian schools in the area of continuum mechanics.

Professor Fosdick has been invited to speak at the "Second Euroconference and International Symposium on Material Instabilities in Deformation and Fracture", August 31-September 5, 1997, to be held in the University of Thessaloniki and Porto Carras.

Professor Fosdick also has been invited to give talks at the University of Houston and Texas A&M in October, 1997. One of his PhD students, Adair Aguiar, presented some of their joint work at the 1997 joint ASME/ASCE/SES summer meeting in June at Northwestern University.

William Garrard presented a paper at the 14th Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference and Seminar in San Francisco, and will present a paper at the Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference in New Orleans, August 1997. Professor Garrard was reappointed as Department Head for an additional five year term.

Richard James served on the Advisory Board for the new NSF Center, The Mesoscale Interfacial Mapping Project, at Carnegie Mellon University. He also served on the C-3 hiring committee for the new Max Planck Institute, "Mathematics and The Sciences" in Leipzig. He agreed to be on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics and Solids a premiere journal in the field of solid mechanics. He gave invited lectures at the University of Arizona, Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota (AEM Department), the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, the University of Oxford, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Applied Mathematics Workshop for Materials Science and Industrial Applications, the SPIE Conference on Smart Structures and Materials in San Diego, the Workshop on the Relation between Atomic and Continuum Theory at CalTech and the Piezoelectrics Planning Workshop in Washington, D. C. He was on the Program Committee of the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Methods in Materials Science, gave several talks there, and organized a minisymposium with Perry Leo on Active Thin Films. He was pleased to give a lecture and take part in the celebration, "Dynamic Deformation and Failure mechanics of Materials", held at CalTech in honor of the 60th birthday of Rodney J. Clifton. A paper he co-authored in 1994, "Restrictions on Microstructure" was chosen for Featured Review in Math Reviews.

Perry Leo gave invited talks at Arizona State, UCLA and Northwestern, as well as at the Winter 1996 meeting of the Materials Research Society and the Spring 1997 SIAM meeting on Mathematics and Materials Science. Professor Leo was also elected as a Key Reader for the Journal of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions.

Ellen Longmire gave invited lectures at the California Institute of Technology, Tufts University, the University of Colorado, and Stanford University. She was also an invited panelist for an Alumni/Faculty Forum at Princeton University on Technological Developments in Aerospace.

Thomas Lundgren presented a paper at the IUTAM Symposium in Tobago in 1997.

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