TMS 2013

Summer 2011 Greer Group Picnic

Spring 2011 Ultimate Challenge

Fall 2010 Ultimate Challenge

Fall 2010 Greer Group Picnic

Summer 2010 Greer Group Picnic

Fall 2010 Ultimate Challenge

Miscellaneous Activities

Group News
May 2013 : Congratulations to Lucas on passing his candidacy! One step closer to Ph.D.
March 201: Congratulations to Rachel on winning the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Feb. 2013: Dongchan, Jan, and Julia presented their research at the annual TMS 2013 meeting in San Antonio, where Julia also got the Early Career Faculty Fellow award.
Jan. 2013: Congratulations to Nisha Mohan and Seok-Woo Lee on delivering talks at the Jim Knowles Symposium at Caltech (here). Nisha's talk title was "Exploring Uniaxial Tensile Deformation of Compressible Solids with an N-type Constitutive Law" and Seok-Woo's was "Temperature Effects on the Indentation Size Effect".
Jan. 2013: Alumn Shelby Hutchens wins Quadrant Award. Congratulations!
Jan. 2013: Julia attends the 2013 Annual World Economic Forum in Davos and co-leads the IdeasLab "Unleashing the Power of Science with Caltech" along with Frances Arnold, John Grotzinger, and Tony Chan. See write-up from the Associated Press here.
Nov. 2012: Peri Landau and Guo Qiang's work on radiation-tolerant materials is featured on Caltech's front page
Oct. 2012: Congratulations to Lucas for passing his qualifying exams !
Oct. 2012: Congratulations to Zach for winning the Graduate Student Award at the SES(Society of Engineering Sciences)2012 conference, after being selected as one of the twelve finalists to present at the symposium.
Oct. 2012: Congratulations to Julia and her colleagues from HRL and UC Irvine for winning the Popular Mechanics 2012 Breakthrough Award. For press coverage and full story see here or here
Aug. 2012: Congratulations to Julia on winning NASA's (inaugural) Early Career Faculty award ! click here for the full news!
Jul. 2012: Wendy, Lucas, Zach, Robert, Seok-Woo, and Dongchan all present posters at the Gordon Research Conference on Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior (Colby College, Maine).
Jun. 2012: Congratulations to Zach on entering the finalists list of 12, for student presentation award competition, in SES( Society of Engineering Science) 49th ATM.
May. 2012: Congratulations to Dr.Andrew Jennings for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
May. 2012: Greer group is awarded as part of the Extreme Materials Institute, a recent U.S. Army Research Laboratory's $90 million award to a consortium of researchers led by Johns Hopkins University, to investigate intense impacts on protective materials. click here for the full news!
May. 2012: Congratulations to Andrew on receiving the Demetriades prize for the best thesis in nanotechnology and related fields!
May. 2012: Congratulations to Zach for passing his candidacy!
Apr. 2012: Congratulations to David for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and to Lucas for being named for honorable mention! We're proud of both of them!
Mar. 2012: Robert, Dongchan, and Chris Weinberger present talks at the annual TMS meeting in Orlando.
Mar. 2012: Congratulations to Wendy for passing her candidacy!