Workshop on

Discrete Atomistic Models and their Continuum Limits

Programme

Thursday, December 4, 2003
8.30 - 10.10 Registration
10.00 - 10.15 Welcome and opening of workshop
10:15 - 10.55 M. Arndt:
Derivation of higher order gradient continuum models from atomistic models for crystalline solids
11.00 - 11.40 C. Le Bris:
A variational approach for the definition of mechanical energies
11.45 - 12.25 F. Legoll:
Mathematical analysis of a simple 1D micro-macro method for materials simulation
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.40 F. Theil:
Surface energies in two-dimensional mass-spring models for crystals
14:45 - 15.25 J. Zimmer:
On relaxation and Young measures <
15:30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:40 A. Braides:
Gamma-limits of discrete systems
16:45 - 17:25 G. Stoltz:
To model shock propagations of explosives in 1D
17:45 - 20:00 Workshop Diner

Friday, December 5, 2003
9.00 - 9.40 T. Kriecherbauer:
Travelling waves in nonlinear lattices
9.45 - 10.25 G. James:
Centre manifold reduction for time-periodic oscillations in infinite lattices
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.40 A. Cherkaev:
Wave of transition in chains and lattices from bistable elements
11.45 - 12.25 K. Matthies:
Solitary waves in 2D Hamiltonian Lattices
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14:00 - 14.40 L. Truskinovsky:
From NN to NNN
14.45 - 15:25 J. Giannoulis:
Macroscopic pulse evolution for a nonlinear oscillator chain
15:30 - 16:10 M. Herrmann:
Atomic chain with temperature
16:15 - 16.45 Break
16.45 - 17.25 C. Schütte:
Stochastic Modelling of Nonadiabatic Processes: Some Surprising Insights
17:30 - 19:00 Discussion
19:00 - 19.45 Reserved for a lecture to be announced, should the occasion arise, at short time.

Saturday, December 6, 2003
9.00 - 9.40 H. Zapolsky:
Discrete atomistic model of coarsening of ordered intermetallic precipitates with coherency stress
9.45 - 10.25 H. Spohn:
The phonon Boltzmann equation for weakly disordered wave equations
10.30 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 11.40 I. Müller:
Casimir-like Size Effects in Ideal Gases
11.30 - 12.25 M. Rieger:
Young measure solutions for shape memory alloys
12.25 - 12.40 Closing of the workshop