Materials Working Group, Spring 2012 
Organized by Bob Kohn 

Our meetings this spring will be on (most) non-Math-Colloquium
Mondays, 3:30-5pm, in WWH 1314. Meetings are informal, with
plenty of discussion and few outside speakers. A record of
last year's activity is here. For Fall 2011, see the bottom of this page.

An email list for relevant announcements is
maintained by Bob Kohn (kohn at cims dot nyu dot edu).

Spring 2012 plan:

Feb 13: Bob Kohn, on the wrinkling of a compressed 
thin film bonded to a soft, thick substrate

Feb 27: Benedikt Wirth, on the Phase Field Crystal method

March 19: Matt Elsey, on numerical methods for geometric evolution problems

April 16: Peter Bella, on the coarsening of folds in hanging drapes

April 30: Jianfeng Lu, on the Wigner lattice

Fall 2011 talks:

Sept 19: Bob Kohn discussed load-driven wrinkling 
of thin elastic sheets.

Oct 3: Jianfeng Lu spoke on atomistic-to-continuum hybrid 
methods.

Oct 17: Jean Taylor discussed recent work by Martin Glicksman
about dendritic crystal growth

Oct 24: Jens Jorgensen discussed his thesis work, on
"membrane metamaterials" 

Oct 31: Gilles Francfort spoke on the mathematics
of perfect plasticity