Schedule
(Updated as of March 28, 2024)
Important notes:
| 1. | This Focused Program will be held in face-to-face mode. |
| 2. | Unauthorized recording of any session is prohibited. |
| 3. | Please obtain the consent from the speaker concerned for any adaptation/sharing of his/her presentation materials. |
| Should you have further enquiries, please feel free to contact the secretariat by email at ias2024ptm@ust.hk. | |
Venue: Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
March 26, 2024 (Tue)
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Event
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Reception (By Invitation) and Registration |
March 27, 2024 (Wed)
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Event
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Session 1 Session Chair: Xian CHEN (HKUST) |
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| 09:10 - 09:20 |
Opening Remarks Qingping SUN (HKUST) |
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| 09:20 - 10:00 |
Is Machine Learning the Answer to the Hauptproblem of Continuum Mechanics? Kaushik BHATTACHARYA (The California Institute of Technology (Caltech)) |
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| 10:00 - 10:40 |
The Grain Boundary Ratchet: Directional Grain Boundary Migration & Its Implications David SROLOVITZ (The University of Hong Kong) |
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| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:10 - 11:50 |
Phase Separation in Heterogeneous Media Irene FONSECA (Carnegie Mellon University) |
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| 11:50 - 12:00 | Short Break | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch (By invitation; UniQue, Conference Lodge) | |
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Session 2 Session Chair: Liping LIU (Rutgers University) |
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| 14:00 - 14:40 |
Surface Instability in Liquid Crystal Elastomers Fan FENG (Peking University) |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 |
Effective Continuum Theories in Origami and Kirigami Paul PLUCINSKY (University of South California) |
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| 15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:50 - 16:30 |
Slip, Twinning and Polycrystals John BALL (Heriot-Watt University) |
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| 16:30 - 17:10 |
Interplay between Twins and Slips in Compatible Martensitic Materials Xian CHEN (HKUST) |
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| 17:10 – 17:50 |
Statistical Electro-Mechanics of Dielectric Polymers Kaushik DAYAL (Carnegie Mellon University) |
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March 28, 2024 (Thu)
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Event
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Session 3 Session Chair: Kaushik BHATTACHARYA (The California Institute of Technology (Caltech)) |
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| 09:00 - 09:40 |
Crystallographically Compatible Ceramic Shape Memory Materials Eckhard QUANDT (Kiel University) |
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| 09:40 - 10:20 |
Modern Directions in Epitaxy of Complex Oxides Thin Films and Membranes Bharat JALAN (The University of Minnesota) |
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| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 - 11:30 |
From Combinatorial Search of Minimal-hysteresis Shape Memory Alloys to Development of Caloric Cooling Systems Ichiro TAKEUCHI (The University of Maryland) |
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| 11:30 - 12:10 |
Theory-guided High Throughput Experimental Search of Ceramic Capacitors with Ultrahigh Energy Density and Efficiency Jun CUI (Iowa State University) |
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| 12:10 - 13:40 | Lunch (By invitation; IAS5008, 5/F) | |
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Session 4 Session Chair: John BALL (Heriot-Watt University) |
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| 13:40 - 14:20 |
Plastic Forming Through Twinning - Non-linear Elasticity Theory of Kwinks in NiTi Martensite Hanus SEINER (Institute of Thermomechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences) |
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| 14:20 - 15:00 |
Morphing in Soft and Biological Matter Antonio DESIMONE (SISSA) |
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| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:20 - 16:00 |
A Next Best Approach to Obtain Supercompatible Martensite Microstructure and How It Works Tomonari INAMURA (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
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| 16:00 - 16:40 |
Two Theorems on the Deployability of Planar and Spherical Kirigami Jianxiang WANG (Peking University) |
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| 16:40 – 17:20 |
Towards Large-scale Quantum Accuracy Materials Simulations Vikram GAVINI (The University of Michigan) |
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| 17:20 – 18:00 |
Multi-scale Modelling and Design of Magnetoelastic Materials and Structures Vivekanand DABADE (Indian Institute of Science (IISc)) |
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| 18:00 - 20:00 | Dinner (By Invitation; China Garden, HKUST) | |
March 29, 2024 (Fri)
Time
Event
| 09:00 - 15:00 | City Tour (By Invitation) | |
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Session 5 Session Chair: Fan FENG (Peking University) |
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| 15:00 - 15:40 |
Mixed Correspondences in Tetragonal to Monoclinic Phase Transformation of Zirconia Hanlin GU (Peking University) |
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| 15:40 - 16:20 |
Coupling Diffusion and Deformation in Chemo-Mechanical Materials Ananya RENUKA BALAKRISHNA (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
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March 30, 2024 (Sat)
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Event
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Session 6 Session Chair: Antonio DESIMONE (SISSA) |
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| 08:30 - 09:10 |
[Online] Continuum Theory and Phase-transitions in Moire Materials Mitchell LUSKIN (The University of Minnesota) |
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| 09:10 - 09:50 |
[Online] First Principles and Data Driven SImulations of Twisted Matter Amartya BANERJEE (University of California, Los Angeles) |
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