Student Chapter News

USACM Berkeley Opens Fall 2025 MechBytes Seminar & Coffee Hours Series

The USACM Student Chapter at UC Berkeley is hosting its Fall 2025 MechBytes Seminar and Coffee Hours series. The first session took place on September 26 in 745 Davis Hall, featuring Claudio Perez from UC Berkeley speaking on high-performance computing and finite-element methods. The second session was held on October 10 in 3110 Etcheverry Hall, where Ian Li presented collaborative work with Lawrence Livermore on asteroid airburst simulations using smoothed particle hydrodynamics.

Recordings of both talks are now available on the USACM-Berkeley YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@USACM-BerkeleyDepartmental.
Upcoming events will be posted regularly at https://mechanics-berkeley.github.io/fall25/

USACM @ Boston University Opens Fall 2025 Seminar Series

The USACM Student Chapter at Boston University is hosting its Fall 2025 Seminar series. The first session took place on November 21 in 730 Commonwealth Ave, featuring Yi Yang from Massachusetts Institute of Technology presenting on
"A Geometric-Mechanical Model of Ridge Morphogenesis on Butterfly Wing Scales"

Past student chapter news can be found here.

Some past in person events: (1) Mentorship program USNCCM 18, (2) Student Meet & Greet & Bowling USNCCM 18, (3) Seminar UC Berkeley