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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