Program Schedule

15 December | 16 December | 17 December | 18 December

15 December (Mon)

Time Program
08:45 – 09:00 Welcome and Opening
09:00 – 09:40 “Dislocations in Van der Waals Bilayers” (abstract)
David J. Srolovitz, University of Pennsylvania
09:40 – 10:20 “Getting Stuck and Breaking Free: Free Boundaries and Free Discontinuities in Heterogeneous Media” (abstract)
Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30 “A Multiscale Model Reduction Method for Partial Differential Equations” (abstract)
Thomas Y. Hou, California Institute of Technology (IAS Visiting Professor)
11:30 – 12:10 “New Algorithms for Grain Boundary Motion, with Applications to Grain Size Distribution in Thin Films” (abstract)
Selim Esedoglu, University of Michigan
12:10 – 12:30 Group photo (Click here to download photo 1, photo 2)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch buffet (IAS Lobby, Lo Ka Chung Building)
14:00 – 14:40 “Insights into Nanocrystalline Grain Growth Through Phase Field Crystal Calculations” (abstract)
Peter Voorhees, Northwestern University
14:40 – 15:20 “Continuum Framework for Dislocation Structure, Energy and Dynamics of Dislocation Arrays and Low Angle Grain Boundaries” (abstract)
Yang Xiang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 – 16:30 “Modeling and Simulation of Active Liquid Crystals with Applications to Cytokinesis” (abstract)
Qi Wang, University of South Carolina
16:30 – 17:10 “Energetic Variational Approaches: Onsager's Maximum Dissipation Principle, General Diffusion, Optimal Transport and Stochastic Integrals” (abstract)
Chun Liu, Pennsylvania State University

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16 December (Tue)

Time Program
09:00 – 09:40 “Coarsening Mechanism for a Cahn-Hilliard Equations with a Degenerate Mobility”  (abstract)
Qiang Du, Columbia University
09:40 – 10:20 “Modeling Microstructure Evolution in Hexaognal Systems”
Longqing Chen, Pennsylvania State University
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30 “Solute Concentrations and Strains in Nanograined Materials and Nanoparticles”  (abstract)
Tong-Yi Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (IAS Senior Fellow)
11:30 – 12:10 “A Degenerate Ising Model for Atomistic Simulation of Crystal-melt Interfaces”  (abstract)
Tim Schulze, University of Tennessee
12:10 – 14:00 Lunch (self-arranged)
14:00 – 14:40 “Decoupled, Linear and Energy Stable Schemes for Phase-field Models of Multiphase Complex Fluids” (abstract)
Jie Shen, Purdue University
14:40 – 15:20 “Multiscale Modeling of Hydrogen Embrittlement of Metals” (abstract)
Gang Lu, California State University at Northridge
15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 – 16:30 “Stochastic and Multi-scale Dynamics of Stem Cells and Developmental Patterning”  (abstract)
Qing Nie, University of California at Irvine
16:30 – 17:10 “Anisotropic Particle in Viscous Shear Flow: Navier Slip, Reciprocal Symmetry, and Jeffery Orbit” (abstract)
Tiezheng Qian, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
18:00 – 21:00 Dinner banquet at Sai Kung (by invitation)

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17 December (Wed)

Time Program
09:00 – 09:40 “Approximate Separability of Green's Function for Helmholtz Equation in the High Frequency Limit” (abstract)
Hongkai Zhao, University of California at Irvine
09:40 – 10:20 “Modeling and Simulation for Solid-State Dewetting Problems” (abstract)
Weizhu Bao, National University of Singapore
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30 “Growth of Nanoscale Materials: Insights from Multi-Scale Theory and Simulation”  (abstract)
Kristen Fichthorn, Pennsylvania State University
11:30 – 12:10 “Topics on the Formation of Dendrites” (abstract)
Shuwang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology
12:10 – 14:00 Lunch (self-arranged)
14:00 – 14:40 “On the Cauchy-Born Approximation at Finite Temperature” (abstract)
Zhijian Yang, Wuhan University
14:40 – 15:20 “A Cell Based Particle Method for Modeling Dynamic Interfaces” (abstract)
Shing Yu Leung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
15:20 – 16:00 “A Weak Formulation for Solving Elliptic and Elasticity Interface Problem” (abstract)
Songming Hou, Louisiana Tech University

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18 December (Thu)

Time Program
09:00 – 09:40 “Stability of Three-dimensional Prandtl Boundary Layers” (abstract)
Ya-Guang Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
09:40 – 10:20 “The String Method for Saddle Point Search” (abstract)
Weiqing Ren, National University of Singapore
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30 “Efficient Rare Event Simulation for Failure Problems in Random Media” (abstract)
Xiang Zhou, City University of Hong Kong
11:30 – 12:10 “Recent Development of Numerical Methods on Finding Saddle Point and Minimum Energy Path” (abstract)
Lei Zhang, Peking University
12:10 – 14:00 Lunch (self-arranged)
14:00 – 14:40 “A New Simulator for Real-scale Dislocation Plasticity based on Dynamics of Dislocation-density Functions” (abstract)
Alfonso Hing Wan Ngan, The University of Hong Kong
14:40 – 15:20 “Modelling and Simulations for Cavitation and Fracture in Nonlinear Elasticity”  (abstract)
Xianmin Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 – 16:30 “Evolution of Elastically Stressed Precipitates” (abstract)
Xiaofan Li, Illinois Institute of Technology
16:30 – 17:10 “Energy Stable Schemes for Phase Field Model with Moving Contact Lines” (abstract)
Xiaofeng Yang, University of South Carolina
17:10 Program Closing

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Venue

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