From Nitinol in Coffee... to Now: A 27 Year Journey of Active Materials
A Symposium in Honor of Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya on the Occasion of His 50th Birthday
Friday, January 9, 2015
A leader in the study of Active Materials our beloved MCE Executive Officer, colleague, advisor and friend Kaushik Bhattacharya celebrates 27 years in the field and a 50th Birthday this year. This symposium celebrates his life, leadership and mentorship. Dr. Bhattacharya’s current research concerns three broad areas: (i) Active materials such as shape-memory alloys, ferroelectrics and liquid crystal elastomers, (ii) Heterogeneous materials and designing unprecedented properties by exploiting heterogeneities, (iii) Coarse-grained density functional theory to understand defects in solids. Join us as we celebrate Professor Bhattacharya on Friday, January 9th in Hameetman Auditorium.
Program
Location: Hameetman Auditorium in the Cahill Astrophysics Building
| 7:30 - 8:00 AM | Registration and Coffee |
| 8:05 - 8:10 AM | Organizing Committee Welcome |
| 8:10 - 8:20 AM | Welcome and Introductions, Ares Rosakis Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering; Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science |
| Session 1: Mr. Vinamra Agrawal, Chair | |
|---|---|
| 8:30 – 9:00 AM |
A possible method for the detection and scientific study of Ebola and other helical viruses
Professor Richard James, University of Minnesota |
| 9:00 – 9:30 AM |
Bounding the response of inhomogeneous bodies, and EΩ inclusions
Professor Graeme Milton, University of Utah |
| 9:30 – 10:00 AM |
Linking Length Scales: Investigating the Effect of Microscale Strain Localization on Macroscopic Response
Professor Samantha Daly, University of Michigan |
| 10:00 – 10:25 AM | Coffee Break |
| Session 2: Mr. Srivatsan Hulikal, Chair | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM |
Optimal design revisited: the effect of perimeter regularization
Professor Robert V. Kohn, Courant Institute, New York University |
| 11:00 – 11:30 AM |
From bi-stable chains to proteins.
Professor Sefi Givli, Technion Israel Institute of Technology |
| 11:30 AM – Noon |
Nonlinear Elastic Inclusions in Isotropic Solids
Professor Arash Yavari, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Noon – 1:00 PM | Lunch (Dabney Lounge) |
| Session 3: Ms. Xin Cindy Wang PhD., Chair | |
| 1:15 – 1:45 PM |
Long-Term Atomistic Simulation of Heat and Mass Transport.
Professor Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology |
| 1:45 – 2:15 PM |
Tensor-structured techniques for large scale Kohn-Sham DFT calculations.
Professor Vikram Gavini, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 2:15 – 2:45 PM |
Towards Mechanics using Quantum-Mechanics
Professor Phanish Suryanarayana, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2:45 – 3:45 PM | Coffee Break & Student Poster Session |
| Session 4: Mr. Lincoln Collins, Chair | |
| 3:45 – 4:15 PM |
The effective behaviors of thermoelectric composites
Professor Jiangyu Li, University of Washington |
| 4:15 – 4:45 PM |
A Dynamic Multiscale Phase-field Model: Regularized Interfaces with Transparent Prescription of Complex Kinetics and Nucleation.
Professor Kaushik Dayal, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 4:45 – 5:15 PM |
On surface instabilities and spherulitic crystallization
Professor Michel Jabbour, École Polytechnique, France |
| 5:15 – 5:45 PM |
Mechanics of Materials with Microstructure: Reflections on my collaboration with Kaushik Bhattacharya
Professor G. Ravichandran, California Institute of Technology |
| Dinner By Invitation |