Bernd Schmidt

Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
California Institute of Technology
1200 E California Blvd. MC: 205-45
Pasadena, CA 91125
USA

Phone: +1 - 626 - 395 - 8027
Office: Guggenheim 318A

e-mail: bschmidt (a) aero (dot) caltech (dot) edu


Research interests

  1. Multiscale methods
  2. Elasticity theory
  3. Calculus of variations

Short vita

  1. Diploma in Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin
  2. PhD student at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (2003 - 2006) in Stefan Müller's Group
  3. Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology in Michael Ortiz' group

Publications

  1. Discrete-to-continuum limits of magnetic forces in dependence on the distance between bodies. Submitted 2007. [MPI MIS preprint 29/2006]
  2. Effective theories for thin elastic films. PhD-Thesis, Universität Leipzig (2006). [Final Version]
  3. Plate theory for stressed heterogeneous multilayers of finite bending energy. J. Math. Pures Appl. 88 (2007) pp. 107-122. [MPI MIS preprint 86/2006]
  4. Minimal energy configurations of strained multi-layers. Calc. Var. Partial Diff. Eq. 30 (2007) pp. 477 - 497. [MPI MIS preprint 111/2005]
  5. A derivation of continuum nonlinear plate theory from atomistic models. SIAM Mult. Model. Simul. 5 (2006) pp. 664-694. [MPI MIS preprint 90/2005]
  6. Qualitative properties of a continuum theory for thin films. Accepted for publication in Annales de l'I.H.P. - Analyse non linéaire 2006. [MPI MIS preprint 83/2005]
  7. On the passage from atomic to continuum theory for thin films. Accepted for publication in Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 2007. [MPI MIS preprint 82/2005]
  8. (with W. Huisinga) Metastability and Dominant Eigenvalues of Transfer Operators. In 'Advances in Algorithms for Macromolecular Simulation', Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Springer (2005). [FU-Preprint]

Scientific Awards

  1. Otto-Hahn-Medaille (2006) of the Max-Planck-Society

Last updated: 08/21/2007