Material Theories

Abstract

The workshop reviewed classical and recent trends in the modeling of material behavior using a wide spectrum of mathematical tools (stochastic processes, calculus of variations, pde’s). Among the topic covered, the following figured prominently: biology and biophysics, mechanics of nanostuctures, crystal plasticity, self-organized criticality, non equilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, wetting phenomena, electronic transport in semiconductors, dislocation mechanics, kinetic theory, bucking in structural mechanics.