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The U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM), on behalf of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine invites recent graduates who obtained their PhD degree in the United States, and defended their dissertation between July 20, 2023 and July 19, 2024, to virtually present a concise summary of their PhD thesis to a mechanics audience. The competition will allow new scholars to showcase their research and findings to a broader audience.
The subject must be in a mechanics related area, including theoretical, experimental, and computational methods. Mechanics, including computational mechanics, is a science that combines mathematics, physics, and engineering to provide mathematical statements to describe the behavior of fluids, materials and structures.
To determine eligibility to THE USNC/TAM 5MT, the applicants must use the application form starting on Friday, July 19, 2024 (at 12 AM ET) and ending on Friday, August 9, 2024 (at 12 AM ET). Once notified, to be accepted in the competition, eligible applicants must submit a recorded video presentation that is no longer than five minutes. Additional instructions will be provided in the notification email.
Please check the downloadable files at the bottom of the webpage for the competition rules and grading criteria and a full flyer for distribution.
Notified applicants are invited to upload a video of their presentation using the link included in their eligibility email starting Monday, July 26, 2024 (at 12 AM ET). Submissions will no longer be accepted after Friday, August 16, 2024 (at 12 AM ET), or after 100 video submissions have been received, whichever comes first.
Finalists were invited to present during a livestreamed webinar with the following results:
FIRST PRIZE - TIE ($2,000)
Alex Grigas
Ganesh U. Patil
THIRD PRIZE ($1,000)
Mohammadhossein Firouznia
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD ($500)
Mohammadhossein Firouznia
2024 – COMPETITION TIMELINE (all times are ET)
Friday, July 19, 12 AM: Application submissions OPEN.
Friday, July 26, 12 AM: Video submissions OPEN (to notified applicants).
Friday, August 9, 12 AM: Application submissions CLOSE.
Friday, August 16, 12 AM: Video submissions CLOSE.
Friday, September 6, 12 AM: Top 10 finalists notified.
THE USNC/TAM 5MT Virtual Thesis Competition and Awards Ceremony:
Friday, September 20, 3-5 PM
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Disclaimer
It is essential to the National Academies mission of providing evidence-based advice that participants in any of our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. The statements and presentations during our meetings or events are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academy of Sciences, which is a non-partisan, tax exempt organization that includes under its Charter the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, and that operates the National Research Council.