Recent Events:

Stephanie Mitchell

ZONTA International Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award - April 2013
Recipient: Stephanie Mitchell, CALTECH, Aeronautics Third year student in Professor Michael Ortiz's Group

National Academy of Engineering (NAE) - Professor Michael Ortiz, Elected Member, February 2013

IACM Young Investigator Award -July 12, 2012
Recipient: Adrian Lew, Stanford University, USA (formerly of California Institute of Technology, Advisor, M. Ortiz). Presented at the 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Prize of the Spanish Association for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) -June 16, 2011
in recognition of scientific and professional achievement, presented at the "Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering - CMNE2011, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Melosh Medalist for the Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis - May 2011
Recipient: Daniel Hurtado, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (formerly of California Institute of Technology, Advisor, M. Ortiz) "Multiscale Modeling of Microcrystalline Materials," D. Hurtado

James Clerk Maxwell Young Writers Prize - December 2010
Recipient: J.J. Rimoli, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (formerly of California Institute of Technology, Advisor, M. Ortiz) "A three-dimensional multiscale model of intergranular hydrogen-assisted cracking," J.J. Rimoli, M. Ortiz

Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship - June 2010
Institute for Advance Study, Technische Universität Münich

Center of Excellence for Predictive Science
Director of Caltech's new Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP)

PSAAP News Release - March 13, 2008

Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics
Sponsored by Elsevier and awarded under the auspices
of the IUTAM, August 2008, Adelaide, Australia

American Academy or Arts and Sciences
Inducted, October 6, 2007, Cambridge, MA

Caltech Commencement, June 15, 2012

PhD Recipients:

M.S. Recipients:

Marcello Gori, Master of Science in Aeronautics

Pedro Pablo Guerrero Vela, Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering and receipient of the KALAM PRIZE FOR AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, awarded to a student in Aerospace Engineering Master's Program whose academic performance was exemplary and who shows high potential for future achievements at Caltech. This prize was made possible through the generosity of Dr. Abdul Kalam, the 11th president of India, himself an aerospace engineer.

Brandon Scott Runnels, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate Recipients:

Christopher Anthony Prombrol, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Nicholas Anthony Robertson, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering (minor)

Recent Lectures:

" 'Full Physics' and Uncertainty Quantification as Drivers for Exascale Computing" Invited Lecture, SimTech Colloquium, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, December 18, 2012 (pdf)

"Multiscale modeling and simulation of ductile fracture and fragmentation" Semi-Plenary Lecture, 6th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2012) Vienna, Austria, September 10-14, 2012 (pdf)

"Multiscale Modeling of Materials: Linking Microstructure and Macroscopic Behavior" Plenary Lecture, DOE CSGF Conference, Krell Institute, Arlington, VA, July 27, 2012 (pdf)

"Optimal-Transportation Meshfree Approximation Schemes" Invited Lecture, 8th European Solid Mechanics Conference, (ESMC2012), Graz, Austria, July 11, 2012 (pdf)

"Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Multiscale Modeling of Dynamic Void Growth in Crystals" Invited Lecture, International Symposium on Current Problems in Solid Mechanics in honor of Professor Rodney J. Clifton, Symi, Greece, June 24-29, 2012 (pdf)

"Variational Methods in Multiscale Analysis" Invited Lecture, Workshop on Mechanics of Materials, Mathematisches Forschungsintitut, Oberwolfach, Germany, March 18-24, 2012 (pdf)

"Optimal Uncertainty Quantification" Invited Lecture, Advanced Computational Engineering Workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany, February 12-18, 2012 (pdf)