| 2022 |
| February, 2022 |
Conference presentations by Shayani and Avanish at the 2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, February 27 - March 3 (2022). |
| January, 2022 |
Alexander Hovrath joins CMMG as a Ph.D. student in MSE. |
| 2021 |
| December, 2021 |
Conference presentations by Shayani at the 2021 Fall MRS Meeting, November29 - December 2, 2021, Boston, MA |
| August, 2021 |
Taradutt Pattnaik joins CMMG as a Ph.D. student in MSE. |
| July, 2021 |
Invited Presentation by Avinash at the The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing 2021 (PASC21) Conference (Virtual Meeting), July 15–18 (2021). |
| March, 2021 |
Conference presentations by Shayani, Ke, Marco, Ching, and Avanish at the 2019 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition (Virtual Meeting),March 10–14 (2019). |
| January, 2021 |
Conference presentations by Ke and Sergey at the 14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) (Virtual Meeting), January 11–15 (2021). |
| 2020 |
| September, 2020 |
Invited Presentation by Avinash at the CINT Annual Meeting Sept 23, (2020) |
| June, 2020 |
Avinash gives a guest lecture at the CREDDS O-REU on Modeling Mechanical Behavior of Materials using LAMMPS. |
| January, 2020 |
Invited Presentation by Avinash at the Workshop: Techniques and Capabilities for High Pressure Research at HPCAT, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL; Jan 15-16 (2020) |
| January, 2020 |
Keynote Presentation by Avinash at the International Conference on Plasticity, Damage, and Fracture 2020, Barcelo Maya GrandResort, Rivera Maya, Mexico; Jan. 3-9 (2020) |
| 2019 |
| December, 2019 |
Conference presentations by Avanish, Marco and Shayani at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA; November 25-20, (2019) |
| August, 2019 |
Ching Chen joins CMMG as a Ph.D. student in MSE |
| June, 2019 |
Conference presentations by Sergey, Marco, and Ke at the 21st Biennial Conference of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (SHOCK19), June 16-21, Portland, Oregon (2019) |
| June, 2019 |
Rajesh Kumar accepts Assistant Professor Position in Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, INDIA |
| May, 2019 |
Avanish Mishra, (Postdoctoral Researcher, MSE/IMS)) joins CMMG |
| April, 2019 |
Hetal Patel earns first place for Senior Design Project in MSE |
| April, 2019 |
Presentation by Sergey at the 2019 Mach Conference, Annapolis, MD; Apr 3 – Apr 5 (2019) |
| March, 2019 |
Seminar Presentation by Avinash, Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, CT |
| March, 2019 |
Conference presentations by Sumit, Sergey, Jie, and Garvit at the 2019 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, USA; Mar 10 – Mar 14 (2019) |
| March, 2019 |
Invited presentations by Avinash at the 2019 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, USA; Mar 10 – Mar 14 (2019) |
| 2018 |
| December, 2018 |
CMMG featured in UConn Today: UConn Partners in $12.5M DOE Research Center on US Nuclear Security |
| November, 2018 |
Conference presentation by Avinash at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA; November 25-20, (2018) |
| November, 2018 |
Invited presentation by Avinash at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Pittsburg, PA; November 12-16 (2018) |
| October, 2018 |
Rajesh Kumar (Postdoctoral Researcher, MSE/IMS)) joins CMMG |
| October, 2018 |
Texas A & M Press Release on DOE/NNSA funded Center for Research Excellence on Dynamically Deformed Solids (CREDDS) |
| October, 2018 |
DOE NNSA announces a new Center of Excellence with M. Demkowicz as PI and A. Dongare, A. Misra and I. Beyerlein as Co-PIs through the Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP). NNSA Press Release |
| August, 2018 |
Marco Echeverria (Graduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG |
| August, 2018 |
Ke Ma (Graduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG |
| August, 2018 |
Shayani Parida (Graduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG |
| July, 2018 |
Invited presentation by Avinash at the World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIII) in New York City from July 22-27 (2018) |
| June, 2018 |
Conference presentation by Sergey and Avinash at the Gordon Research Conference on Energetic Materials, June 03 - 08, 2018 at Grand Summit Hotel at Sunday River in Newry, ME |
| May, 2018 |
Dr. Dmitry Ivanov from University of Kassel visits UConn |
May, 2018
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Avinash Dongare promoted to Associate Professor with tenure |
| April, 2018 |
Garvit Agarwal is the recipient of the "Graduate Student of the Year" award for 2017-2018. |
| March, 2018 |
Contributed presentations by Sumit at the TMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ; March 11-15 (2018) |
| March, 2018 |
Invited presentations by Avinash at the TMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ; March 11-15 (2018) |
| January, 2018 |
Jie Chen defends his Ph.D. Proposal |
| January, 2018 |
Jin Wang accepts a post-doctoral position at University of Pennsylvania. |
| 2017 |
| December, 2017 |
Conference presentations by Jie, Sergey and Sumit at the 2017 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA; November 26 – December 1 (2017) |
| November, 2017 |
Conference presentations by Avinash at the 2017 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Tampa, FL; Nov 3 – 9 (2017) |
October, 2017
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Garvit Agarwal defends his Ph.D. Proposal |
| July, 2017 |
Conference presentation by Avinash, Garvit, Sergey and Jie at The nineteenth Biennial International Conference of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (SCCM-2017); St. Louis, MO; July 9 – 14 (2017) |
| July, 2017 |
Seminar at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM |
| July, 2017 |
Seminar at Sandia National Laboratory, NM |
| June, 2017 |
Seminar at the Mechanical Engineering Department at National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE |
| June, 2017 |
Invited presentation by Avinash at the 9th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, June 18-23, Singapore |
| June, 2017 |
Jin Wang defends his PhD Dissertation and is the first Ph.D. graduated from this group |
| May, 2017 |
Alice Hu (Undergraduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG as part of NSF REU program |
| April, 2017 |
CMMG presentations by Garvit and Avinash (invited) at the MACH Conference in Annapolis, MD |
| March, 2017 |
Avinash is the recipient of the 2017 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) AWARD for "Big d ata analysis of microstructural evolution under dynamic loading conditions" by the US Army Research Office. More details can be found here. |
| February, 2017 |
Conference presentations by Sumit and Avinash at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA; February 26 – March 2 (2017) |
| January, 2017 |
Seminar, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC |
| 2016 |
| December, 2016 |
Seminar at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA |
| December, 2016 |
Jie Chen receives 2nd Place Student Poster Award, 'Materials under Mechanical Extremes' Symposium, MRS Fall 2016 Meeting, Boston, MA |
| December, 2016 |
Conference presentations by Jin, Garvit, Sumit and Jie at the MRS Fall 2016 meeting in Boston, MA |
| November, 2016 |
Seminar at the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering mechanics, Columbia University, NY |
| November, 2016: |
Invited presentations by Avinash at the 2016 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Phoenix, AZ, November 11-17 (2016) |
| August, 2016: |
Sergey Galitskiy (Graduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG |
| Summer, 2016: |
Mohamad Daeipour (MSE, UConn) and Kareen Youssef (MSE, Northwestern University) join CMMG as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. |
| May, 2016: |
Invited talk by Avinash at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS2016), San Francisco, CA |
| May, 2016: |
Deran Schweitzer (Graduate Student, Physics) joins CMMG |
| April, 2016: |
Conference presentations by Avinash, Garvit and Jie at the 2016 MACH Conference in Annapolis, MD |
| April, 2016: |
Conference presentations by Garvit at the APS March Meeting in Baltimore, MD |
| January, 2016: |
Seminar at Weapons and Materials Research Directorate, US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD |
| January, 2016: |
Jie Chen awarded the 2016 GE Graduate Research Fellowship for Innovation |
| 2015 |
| December, 2015: |
Conference presentations by Jin, Garvit, and Jie at the MRS Fall 2015 meeting in Boston, MA |
| November, 2015: |
Conference presentations by Avinash at the ASME IMECE meeting in Houston, TX |
| October, 2015: |
Conference Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont |
| August, 2015: |
Sumit Suresh (Graduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG |
| June, 2015: |
Conference presentation by Avinash, Garvit and Karoon at The nineteenth Biennial International Conference of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (SCCM-2015) in Tampa, FL |
| June, 2015: |
Invited talk by Avinash at the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering & Sciences (ICCES), Reno, NV |
| April, 2015: |
Avinash Dongare: NSF Class of 2015 Early Career Engineers to Watch |
| March, 2015: |
Avinash Dongare chosen as the recipient of the 2015 Young Leaders Professional Development Award from the Structural Materials Division (SMD) of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) |
| March, 2015: |
CMMG presentation by Avinash at the TMS Annual meeting in Orlando, FL |
| January, 2015: |
Avinash Dongare receives the National Science Foundtaion (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award |
| 2014 |
| December, 2014: |
Conference presentations by Avinash, Jin, Gabe, and Karoon at the MRS Fall 2014 meeting in Boston, MA |
| September, 2014: |
Garvit Agarwal (Graduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG |
| August, 2014: |
Invited presentation at the 2D-Technology Applications-International Exchange, US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD |
| July, 2014: |
Jie Chen (Graduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG |
| July, 2014: |
Liang Dong accepts a post-doctoral position at University of Pennsylvania |
| June, 2014: |
Invited talk from CMMG at the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering & Sciences (ICCES), Changwon, South Korea |
| Summer, 2014: |
Graduate students Gabriel Paun and Karoon Mackenchery intern at the US Army Research Laboratory, MD |
| May 2014: |
Karoon Mackenchery graduates with a B.S. in MSE and joins CMMG as a Graduate Student in MSE |
| April, 2014: |
CMMG presentation at the 2014 Mach Conference, Annapolis, MD |
| February, 2014: |
Invited talk from CMMG at the TMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA |
| 2013 |
| November, 2013: |
CMMG presentation at the ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in San Diego, CA |
| November, 2013: |
Gabriel Paun (Graduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG |
| September, 2013: |
Zhong Zheng (Visiting Researcher, IMS) works with CMMG for one year |
| August, 2013: |
Karoon Mackenchery (Undergraduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG |
| August, 2013: |
Jin Wang (Graduate Student, MSE) joins CMMG |
| Summer, 2013: |
ORISE Faculty Fellow: US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD |
| June, 2013: |
Liang Dong (Postdoctoral Researcher, MSE/IMS) joins CMMG |
| May, 2013: |
Invited talk from CMMG at the ARL-ARO miniworkshop, US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD |
| April, 2013: |
CMMG presentation at the MRS UConn Chapter seminar Series at Storrs, CT |
| March, 2013: |
CMMG presentation at the APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD |
| 2012 |
| December, 2012: |
Seminar, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, INDIA |
| December, 2012: |
CMMG presentation at the fourth International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS 2012), Hyderabad, INDIA |
| November, 2012: |
CMMG presentation at the MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA |
| August, 2012: |
Avinash joins the Institute of Materials Science at UCONN as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UCONN |