under the direction of Professor Michael Ortiz

Center of Excellence for Predictive Science
Director of Caltech's new Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP)

PSAAP News Release - March 13, 2008

Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics
Sponsored by Elsevier and awarded under the auspices
of the IUTAM, August 2008, Adelaide, Australia

American Academy or Arts and Sciences
Inducted, October 6, 2007, Cambridge, MA

Caltech Commencement, June 12, 2009

Ph.D Recipients:

Feras Habbal
Benjamin Lee Hansen
Bo Li
Leonard Joseph Lucas
Julian Jose Rimoli

M.S. Recipients:

Pelayo Dominguez Bohorquez


Undergraduate Recipients:

Calvin Chong Kit Ting
Albert Puming Wu

Recent Lectures:

"Multiscale modeling of materials: Linking microstructure and macroscopic behavior" Invited Lecture, Seminarios Interuniversitarios de Mecanica y Materiales, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Seville, Spain, December 16 - 19, 2008 (pdf)

"Multiscale models of metal plasticity: Part I: Dislocation dynamics to crystal plasticity" Invited Lecture, MULTIMAT closing meeting, Bonn, Germany, September 12, 2008 (pdf)

"Multiscale models of metal plasticity: Part II: Crystal plasticity to subgrain microstructures" Invited Lecture, MULTIMAT closing meeting, Bonn, Germany, September 12, 2008 (pdf)

"Nonconvex Plasticity and Microstructure" Rodney Hill Prize Plenary Lecture, 22nd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Adelaide, Australia, August 27, 2008 (pdf)

"Electronic-structure calculations at macroscopic scales" Opening Plenary Lecture, 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Venezia, Italy, June 30, 2008 (pdf)

"Nonconvex Plasticity and Microstructure" Invited Lecture, 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Venezia, Italy, June 30, 2008 (pdf)

"Minimum principles for characterizing the trajectories and microstructural evolution of dissipative systems" Invited Lecture, Geometric Analysis, Elasticity and PDEs, Edinburgh, June 26, 2008 (pdf)

"Discrete Dislocation Dynamics" Invited Lecture, Symposium on Multiscale Dislocation Dynamics, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, January 19 - 20, 2008 (pdf)

"Electronic-structure calculations at macroscopic scales" Lecture, Material Theories Workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany, December 17 - 21, 2007 (pdf)

"Electronic-structure calculations at macroscopic scales" Plenary Lecture, Complas IX International Conference on Computational Plasticity, Fundamentals and Applications, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Barcelona, Spain, September 5-7, 2007 (pdf)

"Electronic-structure calculations at macroscopic scales" Plenary Lecture, BAMC 2007, 49th British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Bristol, UK, April 16 - 20, 2007 (pdf)

"Prediction and Multiscale Modeling of Corrosion and Wear", Plenary Lecture, 17th US Army Symposium on Solid Mechanics, Baltimore, MD, April 2-3, 2007. (pdf)

"Importance of shear in the bcc--to-hcp transformation in iron", Lecture, American Chemical Society 233rd National Meeting & Exposition, March 25-29, 2007 (pdf)

"Energy-Dissipation Functionals in Fracture Mechanics", Lecture, Analysis and Numerics for Rate-Independent Processes Workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany, February 25 - March 3, 2007 (pdf)

 

 

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