Upcoming Activities

The Applied Mechanics Division looks forward to welcoming you at IMECE 2025 - Memphis, TN. Below are the activities that will take place at the conference. 

Monday, November 17, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sheraton Memphis Downtown - Jackson, 2nd FL.
AMD/MD Joint Committee on Constitutive Equations Technical Committee Meeting   
    
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM   
Sheraton Memphis Downtown - Chattanooga, 2nd FL
Fracture and Fatigue Mechanics Technical Committee   

Tuesday, November 18, 2025   
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sheraton Memphis Downtown - Azalea, 1st FL.
Technical Committee Meeting for Experimental Mechanics       
2025 Applied Mechanics Division Young Medalist Symposium

2025 Applied Mechanics Division Young Medalist Symposium
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Session Chair: Renee Zhao, Stanford University
3:00-3:20 pm

• Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award - Kejie Zhao, Purdue University
• Mechanics, Heterogeneity, and Dynamics in Particle Networks

3:20-3:40 pm

• Thomas JR Hughes Young Investigator Award - X. Shelly Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Bridging Inverse Design and Additive Manufacturing of Programmable Materials

3:40-4:00 pm

• Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty - Anna Tarakanova, University of Connecticut
• Molecular computation for bioengineering

4:00-4:20 pm

• Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal - Huck Beng Chew, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Machine Learning in Mechanics: Bridging Scales in Materials Damage Modeling

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sheraton Memphis Downtown - Azalea, 1st FL.
Technical Committee Meeting for Mechanics of Soft Materials       

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Memphis Convention Center, Room LL7 (Lower Level 7)
Warner T. Koiter Medal Lecture       

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sheraton Memphis Downtown - Azalea, 1st FL.
Technical Committee Meeting for Computing in Applied Mechanics (CONCAM)   

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Sheraton Memphis Downtown - Nashville, 2nd FL.
Applied Mechanics Division Awards Dinner & Timoshenko Lecture   
Ticket $100pp
Applied Mechanics Awards Dinner Program
    
IMECE Conference registration is required to participate in the activities above.