Some Talks


 Some Unconventional PDE Problems from Photonics
 (A talk given in the Rutgers University Math Colloquium, March 2024) 

 Mechanism-Based Mechanical Metamaterials
 (A talk given at USC's Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Colloquium, Nov 2024) 

 An Energy-Minimization-Based Perspective on Twinning with Variable Volume Fraction
 for Two Martensite Variants
 (A talk given at the 2023 SES meeting, in a session honoring Roger Fosdick) 
 

 Prediction with Expert Advice: a PDE Perspective on a Model Problem from Machine Learning
 (A talk given by Zoom at Okinawa Inst of Sci and Tech, Nov 2022) 

 A Variational Perspective on Wrinkling due to Geometric Incompatibility
 (A talk given at University of Connecticut, Sept 2019) 

 The Mathematics of Wrinkles and Folds
 (My plenary talk at the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting) 

 Energy-driven pattern formation
 (CIMS Grad Student and Postdoc Seminar, Fall 2017)

 Parabolic PDE's and deterministic games
 (My plenary talk at ICIAM 2007)