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 8, 2007

Ph.D Recipients:

Vikram Gavini
Yashashree Kulkarni

M.S. Recipients:

Francisco Lopez Jimenez
Celia Reina Romo

Undergraduate Recipients:

Nhattrieu Chan Duong
Truong-Dzuy Edward Truong-Cao

Recent Lectures:

"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)

"Diamonds: Finite-Element/Discrete Mechanics Schemes with Guaranteed Optimal Convergence", Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Multifield Problems, University of Stuttgart, Germany, October 4 - 6, 2006 (pdf)

"Multiscale Modeling of Materials. Part I: Dislocation Structures to polycyrstals", Invited Lecture, Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations Workshop, Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio de Giori, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, September 17 - 23, 2006 (pdf)

"Multiscale Modeling of Materials. Part II: Dislocation Structures to polycyrstals", Invited Lecture, Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations Workshop, Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio de Giori, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, September 17 - 23, 2006 (pdf)

"Multiscale Modeling of Materials. Part III: Discrete to Continuum", Invited Lecture, Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations Workshop, Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio de Giori, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, September 17 - 23, 2006 (pdf)

"Effect of Blast Loads on Reinforced Steel Plates & Shells", Lecture, Materials & Structures for Advanced Ship Protection Workshop, Harbourtowne, St. Michaels, MD, August 28 - 31, 2006.

"Discrete Differential Calculus and Analysis for Incompressible Elasticity", Keynote Lecture, WCCM VII - 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, California, July 16 - 21, 2006.

Invited Lecture "Multiscale Modeling of Materials: A Challenge in Predictive Science", The Stanford S. and Beverly P. Penner Distinguished Lectures in the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego, May 15, 2006.

 

 

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