Alumni organize symposium in honor of faculty mentor

Professor Huseyin Sehitoglu will be honored by several of his former students with a mini-symposium at the 2016 Plasticity Conference, to be held January 3-6, 2016 in Kona, Hawaii. Yanyao Jiang, Rick Neu, and Ibrahim Kamran are organizing a mini-symposium within the conference titled, "Multi-faceted Research in Materials and Mechanics."  

The conference draws 300-400 attendees from around the world to discuss topics that include multi-scale computational plasticity, plasticity of emerging materials, and micro mechanics of plastic deformatino and texture evolution. 

Sehitoglu, who also holds the John, Alice, and Sarah Nyquist Endowed Chair, directs the High Temperature Materials Laboratory at MechSE. He has significantly advanced scholarship related to thermomechanical fatigue, fatigue crack closure, stress-induced phase transformations, cyclic ratcheting plasticity, slip and twinning in metals. He is also a research partner in the Midwest Structural Sciences Center, and is director of the Fracture Control Program at Illinois, one of the oldest university-industry research and education programs in the world.