Category: Events

  • Open position: PhD Scholarship in Low Emission Building Materials

    This PhD project will focus on the thermal and mechanical characterisation of low emission building materials. One full-time PhD scholarship will be offered for conduction this research project under the joint supervision of A/Prof Yixiang Gan (The University of Sydney) and Professor Arnaud Castel (University of Technology Sydney). The candidate will work within a multi-disciplinary…

  • Dr Gan is visiting Oxford Mathematical Institute

    From December 2019 to February 2020, Dr Gan will be visiting Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, as a part of his sabbatical leave. He will be working with Professor Dominic Vella on bio-inspired structure design for spontaneous directional liquid transport, a research project funded by Endeavour Executive Leadership Awards. Project background: Harvesting water…

  • Dr Gan selected as Sydney Research Accelerator fellow

    Dr Gan selected as Sydney Research Accelerator fellow

    Dr Gan has been selected as one of the inaugural Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) fellows at The University of Sydney. The news has just been announced by the University. SOAR stands for Sydney Outstanding Academic Researcher program. Extracted from the announcement (link): The first cohort of fellows of the University’s new Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) program…

  • Call for Abstracts: International Workshop on Mechanics of Energy Materials (IWMEM2016)

    Dear colleagues, Please consider submit an abstract (maximum 2 pages) for your talk at the coming International Workshop on Mechanics of Energy Materials (IWMEM2016, Sydney). The deadline for the abstract submission is 15 August, 2016. You can also consider to include one figure in the abstract to highlight your research. Time and Location: 14-15 November…

  • Inivited seminar at Zhejiang University

    Inivited seminar at Zhejiang University

    28/10/2015, Dr Yixiang Gan gave an invited seminar at Zhejiang University, China, on “Mechanics of Compacted Granular Materials”.