Tentative Program (All speakers are confirmed)

Monday, 2 November 2009
7:45 am Breakfast

    8:00 am Introduction

  • Jim Chang, AOARD/AFOSR
  • Steven McKnight, NSF
  • Glaucio Paulino, NSF
  • Maw-Kuen Wu, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • Ken Chong, NIST


    • 8:30 am Mesoscale Computation and Theory I
    Discussion Leader: Ilinca Stanciulescu, Rice University

  • 8:30 am Wing Kam Liu, Northwestern University, Multiscale computation
  • 9:00 am Yeau-Ren Jeng, National Chung Cheng University, Atomic scale/FEM modeling
  • 9:30 am Tadashi Hasebe, Kobe University, FTMP-based flow-evolutionary law and its applications


    • 10:00 am Break

    10:30 am Mesoscale Computation and Theory II
    Discussion Leader: Karel Matous, Notre Dame

  • 10:30 am Richard James, University of Minnesota, Objective structures
  • 11:00 am James Lee, George Washington University, Micromorphic theory and its extension
  • 11:30 am Vincent Tan, National University of Singapore, Coupled Molecular and Continuum Simulations of Amorphous Material


    • 12:00 pm Lunch

    1:30 pm Mesoscale Mechanics of Materials and Structures I
    Discussion Leader: Nakhiah Goulbourne, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • 1:30 pm Mary Boyce, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Deformation of polymers
  • 2:00 pm Herbert Hui, Cornell University, Fracture and adhesion of soft materials
  • 2:30 pm Zhigang Suo, Harvard University, Soft Active Materials (SAM)


    • 3:00 pm Break

    3:30 pm Mesoscale Mechanics of Materials and Structures II
    Discussion Leader: Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University

  • 3:30 pm John Kieffer, University of Michigan, Interfaces in polymer matrix composites
  • 4:00 pm Frank Ko, University of British Columbia, Processing mechanics of nanocomposite fibers
  • 4:30 pm Yeng-Long Chen, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Deformable particles in flow


    • 6:00 pm Dinner



Tuesday, 3 November 2009
8:00 am Breakfast

8:30 am Mesoscale Mechanics in Applications
Discussion Leader: Robert McMeeking, The University of California, Santa Barbara

  • 8:30 am Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University, Stretchable and flexible electronics
  • 9:00 am Chuin-Shan David Chen, National Taiwan University, Multiscale modeling of biosensors
  • 9:30 am Tarek Zohdi, UC Berkeley, Modeling and simulation of multiphysical processes in particulate media: electromagnetic solids and sprays


    • 10:00 am Break

    10:30 Breakout discussion
    Group A, Computation and Theory

  • Group Leader: Jiun-Shyan Chen, The University of California, Los Angeles
  • Scribes: Tong Earn Tay, National University of Singapore; Pradeep Sharma, University of Houston
  • Participants: Ilinca Stanciulescu, Rice University; Karel Matous, Notre Dame
  • Other participants: Attendees choose to join either group

    • Group B, Materials and Structures

  • Group Leader: Somnath Ghosh, Ohio State University Scribes: Vicky Thao Nguyen, Johns Hopkins University; Chad Landis, University of Texas, Austin.
  • participants: Nakhiah Goulbourne, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University
  • Other participants: Attendees choose to join either group


    • 12:00 Noon Reports of the breakout discussion

  • 12:00 Noon Jiun-Shyan Chen, The University of California, Los Angeles, Report from Group B, Computation and Theory
  • 12:20 pm Somnath Ghosh, Ohio State University, Report from Group B, Materials and Structures


    • 12:40 Lunch
    End of the Workshop