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Author: kmatlack@illinois.edu

WPM Lab awarded 2 NSF grants!

October 19, 2020

The WPM was awarded 2 NSF grants: one from the Mechanics of Materials and Structures Program, on “Correlating Nonlinear Wave Response with Mesoscale Dislocation-Based Damage to Understand Fatigue Evolution“, and one co-sponsored by the Mechanics of Materials and …

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Katie awarded the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program award!

July 8, 2020

Katie was awarded the ARO YIP! See the news article on the MechSE website here.…

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Katie wins AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award!

November 15, 2019

Katie was awarded the AFOSR YIP! See the news article on the MechSE website here.

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Connor receives NDSEG fellowship!

April 3, 2019January 31, 2020

Congratulations to Connor Pierce who received the prestigious NDSEG fellowship! See the MechSE news article here.…

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Prof. Matlack awarded ASME AMD’s Hathornthwaite Research Initiation Grant

December 4, 2018

Prof. Matlack was awarded the Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant from the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME for her project, “Phononic metastructures as ultrasonic filters for nondestructive evaluation measurements.” Many thanks to ASME AMD for this support!…

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Paper published in Nature Materials!

January 12, 2018January 18, 2018

Prof. Matlack’s paper from her postdoc work at ETH has been accepted for publication in Nature Materials, on “Designing Perturbative Metamaterials from Discrete Models“, by Matlack, Garcia, Palermo, Huber, and Daraio.

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Visit to AFRL

November 18, 2017November 29, 2017

Prof. Matlack visited AFRL and gave an invited research talk.…

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IMECE 2017, Tampa, FL

November 12, 2017

Chaitanya presented his work on “Thermally activated band gaps in 3D printed metastructures”.…

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Visit to Los Alamos National Lab

September 30, 2017November 12, 2017

Prof. Matlack visited LANL and presented recent work on “Manipulating Wave Propagation in Mechanical Metamaterials”.…

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Welcome new group members!

August 24, 2017November 12, 2017

Welcome to Ignacio Arretche and Ganesh Patil, new graduate students in the Wave Propagation and Metamaterials lab.…

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  • Betsy passed her doctoral preliminary examination April 15, 2024
  • Josh’s successful Ph.D. defense! April 9, 2024
  • Nusrat received the Graduate College Conference Presentation Award! February 29, 2024
  • Connor’s successful Ph.D. defense! February 6, 2024

PI – Kathryn Matlack

PI – Kathryn Matlack

Associate Professor; Richard W. Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
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Congratulations to the first PhD graduate of the WPM lab Dr. Changgong Kim! He’s done some amazing work on ultrasonic NDE. @mechseILLINOIS #proudAdvisor pic.twitter.com/Kin0d0tBmZ

— Katie Matlack (@KathrynMatlack) May 14, 2022

 

Wrapping up 2019 with the Dunn, Hutchens, and Matlack labs holiday party! @ShelbyHutchens and @tribo_tweets. Thanks @tribo_tweets for hosting! pic.twitter.com/GqSQgRDtTe

— Katie Matlack (@KathrynMatlack) December 15, 2019

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