Lecture Title: Nonlinear Vibrations of Shells: Classical Problems, Nonlinear Damping and Application to Vascular Biomechanics
Prof. Marco Amabili
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Canada
Born in Italy, he received his PhD in Bologna. Professor Amabili holds the Canada Research Chair in Vibrations at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He received the Worcester Reed Warner Medal of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) in 2020, the 2021 Raymond D. Mindlin Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the 2021 International Gili-Agostinelli Prize of the “Lincei” National Academy of Sciences of Italy, the 2022 Rayleigh Lecture award of the ASME, the 2022 Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences and the Guggenheim Fellowship in Engineering in 2022. He is the author of two monographs published by Cambridge University press and a plethora of scientific papers. Dr. Amabili is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Sciences), the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, Vice-Dean of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is the vice-chair (incoming chair) of the Executive Committee of Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME. Amabili is also the chair of the Canadian National Committee for IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) and of the conference series ICoNSoM (Int. Conf. on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics).