Invited Speakers

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Amit Acharya (Carnegie Mellon University). PDE dynamics of line defects in solids.

Daniel Balzani (University of Duisburg-Essen). Approach for the incorporation of microscopically distributed properties in DP steels.

John Bassani (University of Pennsylvania). Non-associative plastic flow.

Amine Benzerga (Texas A&M University). A porous material plasticity model for anisotropic solids with non spherical voids.

Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology). Effective toughness of heterogeneous media.

William Curtin (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne). Quantitative prediction of macroscopic ductility in Al-Mg starting from quantum mechanics.

Denis Davydov (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg). Atomistic to continuum coupling: the promise of studying defects at the sub-micron scale

Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge). The role of cracking and defects on the penetration response of ceramic.

Vikram Gavini (University of Michigan). Electronic structure studies on defects in materials.

Julia Greer (California Institute of Technology). Nanostructured 3-D architectures: Mechanics and physics of deformation and fracture in nanomaterials.

Ercan Gürses (Middle East Technical University). Microstructural modeling of semicrystalline polymers.

Hosni Idrissi (University of Antwerp). Study of nanoscale deformation mechanisms in nanocrystalline materials using advanced.

Richard James (University of Minnesota). Title of the talk to be determined.

Andres Jaramillo (California Institute of Technology). Large-scale non-adiabatic dynamics simulation of materials in extreme conditions.

Dennis Kochmann (California Institute of Technology). Taming force artifacts in coarse-grained atomistics to understanding nanoscale plasticity.

Varvara Kouznetsova (Eindhoven University of Technology). Grain boundary plasticity model with incorporation of internal structure and energy.

Jeffrey W. Kysar (Columbia University). Comparison of geometrically necessary dislocation density distribution in indented FCC and BCC crystals.

Jean-Baptiste Leblond (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert - University Pierre and Marie). Planar cracks with slightly curved fronts: theoretical and experimental approaches.

Brian Nyvang Legarth (Technical University of Denmark). Effect of geometrical anisotropy on kinking of a debonding fiber/matrix crack using AFEM.

Dominique Leguillon (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert - University Pierre and Marie). Detection of micro-defects in the vicinity of a stress concentration point.

Liping Liu (Rutgers the State University of New Jersey). Fluctuations of biological membrane.

Javier Llorca (IMDEA Materials). Size effects in micropillar compression: the effect of temperature.

Jaime Marian (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). Modeling plastic flow localization in iron: A multiscale study connecting atomistics with polycrystals.

Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California, San Diego). Dynamic Eshelby micromechanics.

Robert M. McMeeking (University of California, Santa Barbara). Defect mediated recrystallization during large plastic strain.

Nicolas Moës (Ecole Centrale de Nantes). Coupling local and non-local damage evolutions with the thick level set damage model.

Alain Molinari (Université de Lorraine). Dynamic response of ductile porous materials: effect of strain rate and void shape.

Alan Needleman (University of North Texas). Void growth and collapse in creeping single crystals.

Lucia Nicola (Delft University of Technology). Plastic deformation of rough surfaces in contact.

Christian Niordson (Technical University of Denmark). Size-effects in void growth and coalescence.

Michael Ortiz (California Institute of Technology). Optimal scaling laws in ductile fracture of metals and polymers.

Pedro Ponte Castañeda (University of Pennsylvania). The effect of porosity and its anisotropic evolution on the macroscopic response of plastically deforming metals.

Celia Reina (University of Pennsylvania). F=FeFp? A micromechanical analysis of finite crystal elastoplasticity.

Laurent Stainier (Ecole Centrale de Nantes). Damage in thermoviscoelastic materials: variational formulation and regularization.

Claude Stolz (Ecole Centrale de Nantes). Equilibrium solution for the finite anti-plane shear field for a class of hyperelastic incompressible brittle solids.

Bob Svendsen (RWTH Aachen University). Combined atomistic-continuum modelling of dislocation dissociation, glide and twinning in fcc materials.

Viggo Tvergaard (Technical University of Denmark). Effect of initial void shape on ductile failure in a shear field.

Erik Van der Giessen (University of Groningen). How do continuum crystal plasticity time scales emerge from dislocation dynamics?.

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