Invited Presentations
Plenary Speakers
Density Functional Theory in Materials Science: A Mathematical Perspective
Eric Cances, CERMICS – ENPC, France
Microstructure Patterns in Continuum Mechanics
Sergio Conti, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Materials, Energy and Climate: Requirements and Strategies for Sustainability in the 21st Century
Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Field-Theoretic Simulations of Polymeric Materials
Glenn Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Multiscale Analysis of Dislocations
Adriana Garroni, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Italy
Lessons on Structure from the Structure of Viruses
Richard D. James, University of Minnesota
Cloaking and Metamaterials
Robert V. Kohn, New York University
A Statistical Mechanics Approach to Continuum Mechanics
Errico Presutti, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata," Italy
The Strategic Importance of Materials Science for Space and Electronics Applications
Dwight Streit, Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Slip at Liquid/Solid Boundaries: Molecular Scale vs Continuum Predictions
Sandra Troian, California Institute of Technology
Berry Phases and Curvatures in Electronic-Structure Theory
David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University