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Thin Air Philosophical Society Symposium
"Current Challenges in Mechanics and Materials"
Monday, August 8 ---Thursday, August 11, 2005
University of Wyoming
Monday, August 8 |
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| 7:20 AM | Leave Hampton Inn for the meeting site (Molecular Biology) | ||||
| 7:30-8:15 | AM Introduction and Breakfast, Molecular Biology | ||||
| 8:15-8:25 | AM Welcome --- Ken Chong and Demitris Kouris | ||||
| 8:30 AM - Noon | Current Issues in M&M - I | ||||
| Discussion Leader: Ben Freund (Brown University) | |||||
| Huajian Gao (Max Planck Institute) | |||||
| "Mechanics of Robust and Releasable Adhesion in Biology". | |||||
| TAPS05-Gao.pdf | |||||
| 15-minute Break | |||||
| Pradeep Sharma (University of Houston) | |||||
| "Mechanics and Quantum Structures: New Size Effects and Reverse Coupling". | |||||
| TAPS05-Sharma.pdf | |||||
| Zhigang Suo (Harvard University) | |||||
| "Mechanics of integrated small structures". | |||||
| TAPS05-Suo.pdf | |||||
| 12:15 PM | Lunch at the meeting site | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Return to the Hampton Inn | ||||
| 1:30 PM | Depart for Terry Bison Ranch | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Return to the Hampton Inn | ||||
| 5:40 PM | Leave Hampton Inn for the meeting site | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Dinner at the meeting site | ||||
| 7:15 PM - 9:30 PM | Current Issues in M&M - II | ||||
| Dionisios Margetis (MIT) | |||||
| "continuum approach to crystal surface morphology evolutionbelow roughening". | |||||
| TAPS05-Margetis.pdf | |||||
| Shefford Baker (Cornell University) | |||||
| "Is there still something interesting to learn about metal thin films? -- the odd case of Ta". | |||||
| TAPS05-Baker.pdf | |||||
| 9:40 PM | Return to the Hampton Inn | ||||
Tuesday, August 9 |
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| 7:20 AM | Leave Hampton Inn for the meeting site (Molecular Biology) | ||||
| 7:30-8:15 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:15-10:30 AM | Computational Issues in M&M | ||||
| Discussion Leader: Feng Liu (University of Utah) | |||||
| Moneesh Upmanyu (Colorado School of Mines) | |||||
| "The stability of twisted fibrillar aggregates - Implications for self-assembly". | |||||
| TAPS05-Upmanyu.pdf | |||||
| Edmund Webb (Sandia) | |||||
| "Island Coalescence Stress from Atomistic Simulations". | |||||
| TAPS05-Webb.pdf | |||||
| 10:40 AM | Return to the Hampton Inn | ||||
| 11:00 AM-12:30 PM | Boxed Lunch/Transport Participants to Water Rafting Site | ||||
| 12:30-4:00 PM | Water Rafting | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Return to the hote | ||||
| 6:45 PM | Leave Hampton Inn for the meeting site | ||||
| 7:00-8:15 PM | Dinner at the meeting site | ||||
| 8:30-10:00 PM | Student Presentations | ||||
| Ray Fertig (Cornell University) | |||||
| "Threading Dislocation Interactions and Inhomogeneous Stresses in Passivated Thin Copper Films". | |||||
| TAPS05-Fertig.pdf | |||||
| Amanda Brooks (University of Wyoming) | |||||
| "Mechanical Properties of Spider Silks". | |||||
| TAPS05-Brooks.pdf | |||||
| 10:15 PM | Return to the hotel | ||||
Wednesday, August 10 |
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| 7:20 AM | Leave Hampton Inn for the meeting site (Molecular Biology) | ||||
| 7:30-8:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 AM- 11:00 AM | M&M in the Bio World | ||||
| Dan Fletcher (UC Berkeley) | |||||
| "Mechanics of the actin polymerization motor". | |||||
| TAPS05-Fletcher.pdf | |||||
| 15-minute Break | |||||
| Randy Lewis (University of Wyoming) | |||||
| "Spider silks as novel biomaterials". | |||||
| TAPS05-Lewis.pdf | |||||
| 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM | Special Topical Lecture | ||||
| Robert Cammarata (Johns Hopkins) | |||||
| "Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Nanoscale Materials", | |||||
| TAPS05-Cammarata.pdf | |||||
| 12:15 PM | Lunch at the meeting site | ||||
| 1:15 PM | Return to the Hampton Inn | ||||
| 5:30 PM | Leave the hotel for Randy's house | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Dinner --- Cookout at Randy's | ||||
| 8:00 PM | Leave Randy's for the meeting site and the hotel | ||||
| 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | Special Topical Lecture | ||||
| Rishi Raj (University of Colorado, Boulder) | |||||
| "Inverse Problems in Stochastic Modeling of HighTemperature Mechanical Phenomena". | |||||
| TAPS05-Raj.pdf | |||||
| 9:45 PM | Return to Hotel | ||||
Thursday, August 11 |
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| 7:45 AM | Leave Hampton Inn for the meeting site (Molecular Biology) | ||||
| 8:00-9:00 AM | Breakfast - Molecular Biology | ||||
| 9:00-11:30 AM | Review and Discussion | ||||
| Discussion Leader: Zhigang Suo (Harvard University) | |||||
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| Review and Discussion Document Link | |||||
| Noon | Lunch at the meeting site | ||||
| 12:45 PM | Workshop ends | ||||