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:

"Optimal-Transportation Meshfree Approximation Schemes for Fluid and Plastic Flows" Invited Lecture, Institut für Baustatik und Baudynamik, Universität Stuttgart, September 23, 2009 (pdf)

"Dislocation in graphene" Invited Lecture, Workshop on PDEs and Materials, Oberwolfach, Germany, September 13 - 19, 2009 (pdf)

"Optimal-Transportation Meshfree Approximation Schemes for Fluid and Plastic Flows" Invited Lecture, COMPLAS X, Barcelona, Spain, September 3, 2009 (pdf)

"Multiscale Modeling of High Energetic Materials under Impact Loads" Invited Lecture, USNCCM X, Columbus, OH, July 16 - 19, 2009 (pdf)

"Can Complex Material Behavior be Predicted" Invited Lecture, Krell Institute 2009 Annual Conference, DoE NNSA Stockpile Stewardship Graduate Fellowship Program Meeting, Washington, DC, July 13 - 16, 2009 (pdf)

"Multiscale Modeling of Energetic Materials" Invited Lecture, New Frontiers in the Mathematics of Solids Multiscale Models in Solid Mechanics, Oxford University, UK, June 3, 2009 (pdf)

"Energy-stepping integrators in Lagrangian mechanics" Structured Integrators Workshop, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, May 8, 2009 (pdf)

"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)

"Minimum principles for characterizing the trajectories and microstructural evolution of dissipative systems" Invited Lecture, SES, Champagne, IL, October 13, 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)

"Nonconvex Plasticity and Microstructure" Invited Lecture, 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Venezia, Italy, July 1, 2008 (pdf)

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

"Quasi-Continuum Density Functional Theory" 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)

 

 

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