NYU-Oxford Workshop on Mathematical Models of Defects and Patterns

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
January 5-8, 2016

All lectures are in 109 Warren Weaver Hall
251 Mercer Street
Directions




TUESDAY JANUARY 5


8:15 Registration opens (coffee and light refreshments available)
8:45 Welcoming remarks
9:00 - 9:40 Epifanio Virga, Universita di Pavia
Canonical density functional theory for hard repulsion
Abstract
9:45 - 10:25 Pingwen Zhang, Peking University
The mathematics of defects in liquid crystals
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Tim Sluckin, University of Southampton
Modeling smectic layers in confined geometries: Order parameter and defects
Abstract
11:45 - 12:25 Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania
Cholesteric geometry and topology
Abstract
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00 - 2:40 Alain Goriely, Oxford University
A geometric theory of nonlinear morphoelastic shells
Abstract
2:45 - 3:25 Alain Karma, Northeastern University
Continuum modeling of crystal defect dynamics
Abstract
3:30 - 6:30 Poster Session and Reception, 13th Floor WWH
List of poster presentations

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6


8:30 Coffee and light refreshments available
9:00 - 9:40 Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wrinkling crystallography on curved surfaces
Abstract
9:45 - 10:25 Christian Santangelo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The mechanics of origami structures and shells
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Yury Grabovsky, Temple University
Asymptotically sharp Korn-type inequalities in the mathematical analysis of buckling of cylindrical shells
Abstract
11:45 - 12:25 Dominic Vella, Oxford University
Poking around: New insights into wrinkly isometries
Abstract
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00 - 2:40 Maria Giovanna Mora, Universita di Pavia
Homogenization of time-dependent systems of dislocations
Abstract
2:45 - 3:25 Celia Reina, University of Pennsylvania
A multiscale perspective on the kinematics of elastoplasticity
Abstract
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 - 4:40 Ryan Murray, Carnegie Mellon University
Second-order gamma limits for the Cahn-Hilliard functional with applications to slow motion of interfaces
Abstract
4:45 - 5:30 Round table discussion: “The International Researcher”

THURSDAY JANUARY 7


8:30 Coffee and light refreshments available
9:00 - 9:40 Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, New York University
Kinetics of particles with short-range interactions
Abstract
9:45 - 10:25 Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan
Two dimensional melting of hard shapes
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Sylvia Serfaty, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie & New York University
The statistical mechanics of Coulomb and Riesz gases: a variational approach
Abstract
11:45 - 12:25 Michael Shelley, New York University
Microtubule and motor-protein assemblies
Abstract
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00 - 2:40 Xavier Lamy, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Defects in nematic colloids
Abstract
2:45 - 3:25 Emmanuelle Lacaze, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
Self-organized arrays of topological defects in thin smectic liquid crystal films
Abstract
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 - 4:40 Arghir Zarnescu, University of Sussex
Point defects in liquid crystal models: between Oseen-Frank and Landau-de Gennes
Abstract

FRIDAY JANUARY 8


8:30 Coffee and light refreshments available
9:00 - 9:40 Emanuel Lazar, University of Pennsylvania
Voronoi topology for structure analysis in atomic systems
Abstract
9:45 - 10:25 Cyrill Muratov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Low density phases in geometric and phase field models of uniformly charged liquids
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Xian (Sherry) Chen, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
A study of the formation of microstructure for highly reversible martensitic materials
Abstract
11:45 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 2:10 Brian Spencer, State University of New York, Buffalo
Corner wetting during the vapor-liquid-solid growth of faceted nanowires
Abstract
2:15 - 2:55 Massimiliano Morini, Universita di Parma
A variational approach to epitaxially strained elastic films
Abstract