Isaac Vikram Chenchiah University of Bristol

Research: Vita Interests / Current Funding Publications Organisation
Activities: Schools/Workshops Mini-Symposia Talks Visitors Teaching


Schools/Workshops

  1. 10 - 11 February 201
    Third South West Regional PDE Winter School
    Co-organised with Michiel van den Berg

  2. 23 - 27 March 2009
    Biomechanics of Growth in Plant Biology (International Research Workshop)
    Understanding Modelling in Plant Growth: Terminology and Concepts (Advance Training course)

    Co-organised with

    1. Alan Champneys, Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol
    2. Claire Grierson, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
    3. Kris Vissenberg, Plant Growth and Development, University of Antwerp
  3. 11 - 17 February 2007
    Multiscale and variational methods in materials science and the quantum theory of solids
    Mini-workshop at Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach

    Co-organised with

    1. Isabelle Catto, Centre De Recherche en Mathematiques de la Decision, Universite Paris-Dauphine
    2. Ivan Veselić, Fakultät für Mathematik, Technische Universität Chemnitz
    3. Johannes Zimmer, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath

    Report




Mini-Symposia

  1. 13 May 2008
    Structure and Growth in Biology
    Mini-symposium at SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Philadelphia
    (co-organised with Patrick Shipman, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland)

    Speakers:

    1. Richard James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
      Growth of objective structures by self-assembly

    2. Reidun Twarock, Departments of Mathematics and Biology, University of York
      Hidden symmetries in virus architecture and their implications on virus assembly

    3. Celeste Nelson, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
      Emergence of patterns during tissue morphogenesis

    4. Michael Marder, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
      Geometry and elasticity of leaves and flowers

  2. 18 July 2007
    Dynamics of Defects in Materials
    Mini-symposium at Sixth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Zurich
    (co-organised with Thomas Blesgen, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences)

    Speakers:

    1. Weinan E, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
      Atomistic and continuum models of defects in solids

    2. Anna Pandolfi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale, Politecnico di Milano
      A model of distributed faulting in confined brittle materials

    3. Ana Carpio, Facultad de Ciencias Matematicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
      Homogeneous nucleation of dislocations

    4. Sergio Conti, Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Duisburg-Essen
      Relaxation and microstructure formation in single-crystal plasticity




Talks

(Since 2008, organised by topic: Damage, Morphoelasticity, Asymmetric metric spaces, Molecular Biomechanics, Elasticity)

Damage

Evolution of brittle damage with multiple damaged states

  1. 4 September 2012
    South-West PDE Day, School of Mathematics, University of Cardiff

  2. 31 May 2012
    Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

  3. 23 March 2012
    PDE Seminar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath

  4. 4 January 2012
    Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences, American University of Beirut

  5. 26 November 2010
    Analysis Seminar, School of Mathematics, Cardiff University

  6. 16-21 May 2010
    Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Microstructures in Phase Transforming and Damaged Materials, IV European Congress on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering, Paris


Morphoelasticity

  1. 27 September - 1 October 2010
    Continuum limits of discrete growing systems
    Mathematical Foundations of Mechanical Biology, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

  2. 31 August - 6 September 2008
    Some thoughts on the multiplicative decomposition in morphomechanics
    The Mathematics of Growth and Remodelling of Soft Biological Tissues at Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach


Asymmetric metric spaces

  1. 12 November 2009
    Gradient Flows in Asymmetric Metric Spaces
    Analysis and PDE Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Swansea University


Molecular biomechanics

  1. 4 November 2009
    Coarse-graining in some polycrystalline and molecular systems
    Mathematics Seminar, School of Computing and Mathematics, Keele University

  2. Phases in phages

    1. 16-19 July 2009
      Coarse-grained and multi-scale modeling in molecular and cellular biomechanics, 10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Columbus, Ohio

    2. 12-15 October 2008
      Prager Medal Symposium in Honor of Richard James: Using Mechanics to Discover New Materials, 45th annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Urbana-Champaign


Elasticity

  1. Surprises in monoclinic-I martensite

    1. 28 November 2011
      Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering Seminar, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

    2. 12 - 14 October 2011
      48th Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Engineering Sciences, Evanston

  2. 16 - 17 June 2011
    A Cahn–Hilliard equation incorporating geometrically-linear elasticity
    Entropy and Convexity for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (A Royal Society International Scientific Seminar), Kavli Royal Society International Centre

  3. 25 February 2009
    Frustration in polycrystals
    Applied Mathematics Seminars, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick

  4. Strain and stress fields in shape memory and rigid-perfectly plastic polycrystals
    1. 1 December 2008
      Applied Analysis and Mechanics Seminar, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

    2. 14 May 2008
      Composites and Polycrystals, SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Philadelphia

  5. 14 March 2008
    Quasiconvex envelopes of elastic energy densities
    Nonlinear Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey




Visitors

  1. 16-18 July 2012, 28 June - 6 July 2007
    Patrick Shipman
    Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University

  2. 6-7 July 2011
    William Klug
    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles

  3. 9-21 May 2010, 19 March - 1 April 2010, 6-10 March 2010, 20-28 May 2009, 16 February - 7 March 2009
    Christopher Larsen
    Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  4. 15 - 18 January 2009
    Yves Leroy
    Laboratoire de Geologie, Ecole Normale Superieure

  5. 15 - 18 January 2009
    Bertrand Maillot
    Laboratoire Geosciences et Environnement, University of Cergy-Pontoise

  6. 29 June - 3 July 2008
    Gilles Francfort
    Département de Mathématiques / Laboratoire des Propriétés Mécaniques et Thermodynamiques des Matériaux, Université Paris-Nord

  7. 21 - 26 January 2007
    Richard James
    Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota

  8. 10 - 12 July 2006
    Thomas Blesgen
    Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences



Research: Vita Interests / Current Funding Publications Organisation
Activities: Schools/Workshops Mini-Symposia Talks Visitors Teaching
Email: Isaac.Chenchiah, Phone: +44 117 928 7984, Room 2.15
Updated: Friday 28 October 2011
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