Kaushik Bhattacharya's 60th
Contemporary Mechanics of Materials Symposium: Celebrating Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya's 60th Birthday
November 15-16, 2024
Jim and Sandy Hall Auditorium
135 Gates-Thomas Laboratory
Organizers: Samantha Daly, Kaushik Dayal, Guruswami (Ravi) Ravichandran
Friday, November 15, 2024
| 8:00-8:45 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Welcome Remarks by Dr. David Tirrell, Provost, Caltech |
| 9:00-10:30 am |
Session 1 (Chair: Dennis Kochmann, ETH Zurich) Guiding stress: from pentamodes to cable webs to masonry structures Graeme Milton, University of Utah Disordered Architected Materials Chiara Daraio, Caltech Design of Origami Structures for Shape, Function and Multistability Phil Buskohl, Air Force Research Laboratory |
| 10:30-10:50 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-12:20 pm |
Session 2 (Chair: Gal Shmuel, Technion) The Revival of Cauchy Elasticity Arash Yavari, Georgia Tech Flexoelectric Engineering of Two-Dimensional Materials, Structures and Devices Jiangyu Li, Southern University of Science and Technology Some insights on the impact-response of bistable lattices Sefi Givli, Technion |
| 12:20-1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 pm |
Session 3 (Chair: Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University) Structural Materials with Engineered Meso-scale Architectures Pradeep Guduru, Brown University Dynamic interplay of light, mechanics, and material in photo-actuation of fibers Neda Maghsoodi, University of Southern California Using soft elasticity and microstructure in LCEs for inverse design John Biggins, Cambridge University |
| 3:00-3:20 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:20-4:50 pm |
Session 4 (Chair: Liping Liu, Rutgers University) Exploring Flexible Polymer Foam Mechanics Sharlotte Kramer, Sandia National Laboratory Estimating fluid effects on the fracture toughness of gels Prashant Purohit, University of Pennsylvania Misunderstanding and Misusing the Shape Memory Effect Tom Duerig, Nitinol Devices and Components |
Saturday, November 16, 2024
| 8:00-8:40 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:40-10:10 am |
Session 5 (Chair: Cindy Yee, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs) Twinning in porous elastomers Pedro Ponte Castaneda, University of Pennsylvania Challenges in higher-order homogenization Basile Audoly, Ecole Polytechnique Effective Medium Analysis of Dipole Network Behavior Gal deBotton, Ben Gurion University |
| 10:10-10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 pm |
Session 6 (Chair: Rohan Abeyaratne, MIT) Beyond the classical Cauchy-Born rule Andrea Braides, University of Rome 2 On quasistatic models for growth Georg Dolzmann, University of Regensburg Thermodynamics and Phase-field Method of Ferroelectric Domains Long-Qing Chen, Penn State University |
| 12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00-3:00 pm |
Session 7 (Chair: Vinamra Agrawal, Los Alamos National Laboratory) Spatiotemporally-resolved kinematic and stress measurements of interfacial cavitation in soft matter via DIC Jin Yang, University of Texas-Austin Towards quantum-accuracy large-scale electronic structure simulations Vikram Gavini, University of Michigan Data-driven bio-mimetic composite design: direct prediction of stress-strain curves from structures using cGANs Yi-Chung Shu, National Taiwan University Operator learning and constitutive laws Andrew Stuart, Caltech |
| 3:00-3:20 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:20-4:20 pm |
Forward-looking panel discussion on Future Directions in Solid Mechanics and Allied Fields Richard D. James (moderator), University of Minnesota Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon University Robert V. Kohn, Courant Institute, New York University Nadia Lapusta, Caltech |
| 4:20-4:30 pm | Closing Remarks by Kaushik Bhattacharya |