Timoshenko Lecturers
Established in 2004 by the Mechanics and Computation Group, the Timoshenko Lecture honors the legacy of Stephen P. Timoshenko, a founding faculty member of Stanford’s Division of Applied Mechanics.
Since 2014, the Timoshenko Lecture has served as one of the Mechanical Engineering Department’s two premier annual seminars, alongside the Reynolds Lecture. In keeping with Professor Timoshenko’s profound interest in the evolution of his field, lecturers are encouraged to connect their contemporary research or personal experiences to the historical milestones of engineering mechanics. Timoshenko Lecturers are nominated and selected by the Mechanics and Computation faculty
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Robert Ritchie, UC Berkeley |
| 2024-25 | Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Harvard University |
| 2023-24 | Stelios Kyriakides, UT Austin |
| 2022-23 | Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology |
| 2018-19 | Tresa Pollock, University of California Santa Barbara |
| 2017-18 | Richard D. James, University of Minnesota |
| 2014-15 | Michael Ortiz, Caltech |
| 2013-14 | Mary C. Boyce, Columbia University |
| 2012-13 | Tinsley Oden, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2011-12 | Alan Needleman, Texas A&M University |
| 2010-11 | LB Freund, Brown University |
| 2008-09 | Morton Gurtin, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2007-08 | Joseph Keller, Stanford University |
| 2006-07 | Paul Steinmann, University of Kaiserslautern |
| 2005-06 | Grigory Barenblatt, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2004-05 | Ronald Rivlin, Passed away before being able to give the annual lecture Jan Achenbach, Northwestern University |
| 2003-04 | George Herrmann, Stanford University (Emeritus) |