Department of Mathematics

Society for Natural Philosophy Conference

"Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Materials"

The fall 2006 Society for Natural Philosophy Meeting (Conference) will be hosted by the Mathematics Department of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, during the weekend of November 11-12. The meeting will feature the second Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III Lecture delivered by James Serrin.

Speakers:
Maria-Carme Calderer University of Minnesota
Weinan E Princeton University
Carlos Garcia-Cervera University of California Santa Barbara
Sookyung Joo University of California Santa Barbara
Robert Kohn New York University
Oleg Lavrentovich Kent State University
Mitchell Luskin University of Minnesota
Dionisios Margetis University of Maryland
Jinhae Park Purdue University
James Serrin University of Minnesota

The conference will begin at 8;15, Saturday morning and conclude at 12:30, Sunday afternoon. The conference schedule is below.

Conference Schedule
FALL 2006 SNP MEETING: "Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Materials"
Saturday, Nov. 11:
8:15-8:40 COFFEE Math Sciences Bldg., 3rd floor, Library Lounge
8:50-9:00 Remarks & Introduction by Tim Healey, Cornell University, Chairman of SNP STANLEY COULTER 239
9:00-10:00 2nd CLIFFORD AMBROSE TRUESDELL III LECTURE: James Serrin, U. of Minnesota: Applying the Laws of Thermodynamics: Simple Fluid Phase Transitions" STANLEY COULTER 239
10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK STANLEY COULTER 239
10:30-11:20 Robert Kohn, Courant Institute, New York University: "The Evolution of a Crystal Surface Below the Roughening Temperature" STANLEY COULTER 239
11:30-12:05 Sookyung Joo, U. of California, Santa Barbara: "Continuum Theory of Smectic C* Liquid Crystals: Director Orientation in Homeotropic Geometry" STANLEY COULTER 239
12:05-1:45 LUNCH
1:45-2:35 Weinan E, Princeton University: "Atomistic and Continuum Theory of Solids" STANLEY COULTER 239
2:45-3:35 Oleg Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University:"Experimental Studies of Three-dimensional Patterns Formed by Topological Defects and Colloidal Particles in Liquid Crystals" STANLEY COULTER 239
3:35-4:00 COFFEE BREAK STANLEY COULTER 239
4:00-4:50 Carlos Garcia-Cervera, U. of California, Santa Barbara:"An Efficient Real Space Method for Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory" STANLEY COULTER 239
5:00-5:35 Dionisios Margetis, U. of Maryland, "Modeling and Analysis of Crystal Surface Evolution: From Microscopic Physics to Continuum Laws" STANLEY COULTER 239
5:40-6:00 Discussion of Future Directions STANLEY COULTER 239
7:00-7:30 RECEPTION West Faculty Lounge, 2nd floor, Purdue Memorial Union
7:30- BANQUET West Faculty Lounge, 2ND floor, Purdue Memorial Union
Sunday, Nov. 12:
8:00-8:30 COFFEE Math Sciences Bldg., 3rd floor, Library Lounge
8:30-9:20 Maria-Carme Calderer, U. of Minnesota: "Smectic liquid crystals: ferroelectric filaments and dislocations" MATH SCIENCES 175
9:30-10:05 Jinhae Park, Purdue University: "Modeling and Analysis of Ferroelectricity in Liquid Crystals" MATH SCIENCES 175
10:05-10:30 COFFEE BREAK Math Sciences Bldg., 3rd floor, Library Lounge
10:30-11:05 Round table: Walter Noll, Carnegie Mellon University, "On the Theory of Simple Semi-Liquids" Brian Seguin, Carnegie Mellon University, "Plugs in Viscometric Flows of Simple Semi-Liquids" MATH SCIENCES 175
11:10-12:00 Mitch Luskin, U. of Minnesota: "Mathematical Results and Challenges for the Quasicontinuum Approximation" MATH SCIENCES 175

Registration.

To help in the planning for the meeting, prospective participants are asked to contact Julie Morris (jmorris@math.purdue.edu) by email, expressing their intention to attend the conference and if they will attend the conference banquet on Saturday night ($25). Please contact Julie by November 6. A check for the banquet charge of $25, made payable to "Purdue Research Foundation" should be sent to:

Julie Morris
Department of Mathematics,
Purdue University,
150 N. University Street,
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

Attendees are required to be members of the Society. Annual membership dues are $25 and student membership is free. Membership application information is available at http://www.ms.uky.edu/~snp/

Scientific Committee: Patricia Bauman, Maria-Carme Calderer, Dan Phillips.

If you have any questions please contact Patricia Bauman at bauman@math.purdue.edu

Financial Support.

The conference is funded by the SNP and the committee has applied for additional support from the NSF. Partial support for young researchers' travel and lodging expences is available. Recent Ph.D.'s and advanced graduate students who plan on attending the conference are strongly encouraged to apply for support by completing the financial application and returning it to Patricia Bauman.

Accommodations.

Blocks of rooms are are being held at the following two hotels for the nights of November 10 and 11. Mention that you are attending the SNP Meeting hosted by the Purdue Mathematics Department to get the quoted rates.

  • Union Club Hotel
  • Holiday Inn Select City Centre
    • 515 South Street, Downtown Lafayette (one mile from campus, shuttle available)
    • Phone: 1-800-423-1137
    • Website: http://www.hiscc.com/
    • Rates: $85-single, $95-double. Block held until October 10.

Campus map: http://www.purdue.edu/oop/campus_map/areas/abc_456.html

Lafayette map: http://www.lafayette-in.com/drivingmaps.html

Travel.

You can get to Purdue by flying into the Indianapolis Airport. Lafayette Limo offers service between the airport and the Union Club Hotel. You should check their schedule before reserving your flights. If the limo is impractical you can rent a car at the airport and drive to West Lafayette (65 miles).

More complete travel information, as well as multiple routes to Purdue is available on the Center for Computational and Applied Mathematics website: ccam.math.purdue.edu/role/visitors/travel/.