Isaac Vikram Chenchiah University of Bristol

Research: Interests Short Vita Funding Preprints & Recent Publications
Activities: Visitors Mini-Symposia & Workshops Talks Teaching: Calculus 2 & Multivariable Calculus


Research interest: Mathematical problems in solid mechanics and materials science

  1. Statics and dynamics of microstructures and phase transitions in solids
  2. Growth of biological materials
  3. Applications of non-convex calculus of variations and partial differential equations


Short vita

  1. Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol (Since April 2006)

  2. Postdoctoral Associate, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences with Stefan Müller (January 2004 - March 2006)

  3. Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (January 2004)
    1. Ph.D. Thesis: Energy-minimizing microstructures in multiphase elastic solids
    2. Doctoral advisor: Kaushik Bhattacharya

  4. M.S., California Institute of Technology (June 1999)

  5. B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (July 1998)



Funding

  1. 2009-2010 (2 years)
    Royal Society International Joint Project
    Symmetrised rank-one convex hull of monoclinic martensite
    (with Anja Schloemerkemper, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences)

    Formulas for Shapes, an article MaxPlanckResearch (the magazine of the Max Planck Society) by Peter Hergersberg has a non-technical introduction to the general area and this project.

  2. 2009 - 2010 (8 months spread over 2 years)
    Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship for Christopher Larsen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (with Valeriy Slastikov)



Upcoming activities

(Past activities: Mini-Symposia & Mini-Workshops, Talks, Visitors)

  1. 13 November 2009
    Reza Pakzad, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh visiting

  2. 12 November 2009
    Gradient Flows in Asymmetric Metric Spaces
    Talk at Analysis and PDE Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Swansea University

  3. 4 November 2009
    Talk at Mathematics Seminar, School of Computing and Mathematics, Keele University



Preprints & Recent publications

  1. Gradient flows in asymmetric metric spaces
    (with Marc Oliver Rieger and Johannes Zimmer)
    Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, 71(11), 5820-34, Dec. 2009
    (Preprint)

  2. The relaxation of two-well energies with possibly unequal moduli
    (with Kaushik Bhattacharya)
    Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 187(3), 409-479, Mar. 2008
    (Preprint)

  3. Examples of nonlinear homogenization in plane strain involving degenerate energies. I. Plane strain
    (with Kaushik Bhattacharya)
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A - Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 461(2063), 3681 - 3703, Nov. 2005
    (Preprint)

  4. Towards the efficient computation of effective properties of microstructured materials
    (with Carl-Friedrich Kreiner and Johannes Zimmer)
    Comptes Rendus Mecanique, 332(3), 169-174, Mar. 2004
    (Preprint)



Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

  1. 2008 - 2009, Teaching block 1: Math 20900 Calculus 2 & Math 20901 Multivariable Calculus
  2. 2007 - 2008, Teaching block 1: Math 20900 Calculus 2
  3. 2006 - 2007, Teaching block 1: Math 20900 Calculus 2

Undergraduate Projects (2008-9)

  1. Complex analysis from a geometric prespective
  2. Analysis on asymmetric metric spaces
  3. Topics in the calculus of variations
  4. Elasticity of helices (with Valeriy Slastikov)
  5. Topological considerations in DNA structures (with Valeriy Slastikov)


Research: Interests Short Vita Funding Preprints & Recent Publications
Activities: Visitors Mini-Symposia & Workshops Talks Teaching: Calculus 2 & Multivariable Calculus
Email: Isaac.Chenchiah, Phone: +44 117 928 7984, Room 2.15
Updated: Wednesday 11 November 2009
University of Bristol