Honors and Awards
- 2019: Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
- 2014: Theodore von Karman Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), shared with Weinan E (Awarded at a 5 year Interval)
- 2009: Brown Engineering Alumni Medal, Brown University
- 2008: William Prager Medal, Society of Engineering Science
- 2008: Warner T. Koiter Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2008: Co-advisor (with P. H. Leo) to Liping Liu, winner of the Best Dissertation Award in the Physical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Minnesota
- 2007: Honorary Consultant Professorship, Hauzhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- 2006-2007: Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award
- 2002: John von Nuemann Professorship, TU Munich Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Chair, Cornell University College of Engineering
- 1999: Rothschild Visiting Professor
- 1998: Cambridge University Best Paper award, ASME/SPIE Smart Materials Distinguished McKnight University Professor
- 1997: Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics
- 1993: Featured Review (in Mathematical Review) Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton ,Term 1
- 1991: George Taylor Distinguished Research Award, Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota
- 1976-1978: IBM Fellow, the John Hopkins University
Selected Publications
Richard D. James, Symmetry, invariance and the structure of matter. Proc. International Congress of Mathematicians, (2018). https://eta.impa.br/dl/161.pdf
Fan Feng, Paul Plucinsky, and Richard D. James. Phase transformations and compatibility in helical structures, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 131 (2019): 74-95. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06282.pdf
Richard D. James, Materials from mathematics, AMS Current Events Bulletin. Bull. Am. Math. Soc., 56(1) (January, 2019). https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2019-56-01/S0273-0979-2018-01644-3/S0273-0979-2018-01644-3.pdf
Ashley Bucsek, William Nunn, Bharat Jalan and Richard D. James, Energy conversion by phase transformation in the small-temperature-difference regime. Annual Review of Materials Research, 50 (2020), 283-318. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-matsci-082019-021824
Huan Liu, Paul Plucinsky, Fan Feng and Richard D. James, Origami and materials science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 379, May 2021. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0113
Hanlin Gu, Jascha Rohmer, Justin Jetter, Lorenz Kienle, Eckhard Quandt and Richard D. James, Exploding and weeping ceramics, Nature, 599, (Nov. 18, 2021), 416-420. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03975-5
Ananya Renuka Balakrishna and Richard D. James, Design of soft magnetic materials, npj Computational Materials, 8 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-021-00682-7
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