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The 2025 Jerald L. Ericksen Prize (Inaugural Award) is awarded to Michael Ortiz, Frank and Ora Lee Marble Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, and colleagues for their paper on ‘Data Driven Problems in Elasticity', which influenced a new direction for applied mathematics.

3D printed materials made up of interlocking ring or cage particles—essentially, three-dimensional chain mail—form a new type of matter, neither granular nor crystalline, that responds to some stresses like a fluid and to others like a solid.

IUTAM Symposium in Honor of Michael Ortiz’s 70th Birthday

Professor Michael Ortiz Appointed as Head of UNESCO Chair at CIMNE and UPC

An innovative algorithm, called Spectral Expansion Tree Search, helps autonomous robotic systems make optimal choices on the move.