KSU/AMLCI – CMU/CNA Applied Mathematics Symposium on
Advanced Materials
February 9-10, 2019
Kent State University
Program
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Sat., Feb. 9, 2019
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8:30 – 9:00
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Registration |
Coffee Break
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9:00 – 9:10
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Dean James Blank John West, AMLCI Director |
Introduction and Welcome |
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9:10 – 9:50
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Weinan E | Machine Learning and Multi-scale Modeling |
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9:50 – 10:30
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Irene Fonseca | Mathematical Analysis of Novel Advanced Materials: Epitaxy and Quantum Dots |
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10:30 – 10:50
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Coffee Break
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10:50 – 11:30
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Richard James | Materials from Mathematics |
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11:30 – 12:10
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Eugene Gartland | Forces and Variational Compatibility for Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Director Models with Coupled Electric Fields |
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12:10 – 2:00
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Lunch
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2:00 – 2:40
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David Kinderlehrer | Towards a Gradient Flow for Microstructure |
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2:40 – 3:20
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Dmitry Golovaty | Interfaces with Singularities: Understanding Phase Transitions in Nematic Liquid Crystals |
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3:20 -3:40
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Coffee Break
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3:40 – 4:20
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Robert Kohn | A Variational Perspective on Wrinkling Patterns in Thin Elastic Sheets |
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4:20 – 5:00
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Xiaoyu Zheng | Towards an Equation of State for Dense Nematics via a Free Volume Approach |
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6:30
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Banquet
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Sun., Feb. 10, 2019
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8:30 – 9:00
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Coffee Break
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9:00 – 9:10
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Announcements | |
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9:10 – 9:50
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Epifanio Virga | Chirality Injection in Liquid Crystal Droplets |
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9:50 – 10:30
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Kaushik Dayal | Objective Twisted Electromagnetic and Electronic Waves in Chiral Materials |
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10:30 – 10:50
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Coffee Break
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10:50 – 11:30
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Michael Shelley | Self-Organization and Mechanics in the Cell |
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11:30 – 12:10
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Peter Palffy-Muhoray | Light Intensity as a Mechanical Potential for Photoactive Materials |
