Mathematical Sciences: Applied Mathematics Workshop for Materials Studies and Industrial Applications

9629956曹操会议的哲学主题在于利用铁电陶瓷的压电性、压电复合材料和某些液晶的挠性之间的类比。这个类比将包括实验、建模、计算、分析以及在研究这种固体和液体材料时出现的工业问题和数学方法。它将同时解决与聚合物液晶、功能陶瓷和复合材料的加工和应用有关的问题。在更广泛的意义上，具有机电或磁机耦合的固体材料属于铁性材料的一般范畴。这次跨学科会议的目的是聚集来自材料科学交互领域的研究人员，包括物理学和应用数学，特别关注当前用于计算机显示设备、智能结构、传感和控制设备的材料的最新科学和工业发展。通过不同学科之间的交流，我们希望将数学家和物理学家的专业知识引导到更实际的问题上，并成立新的有建设性的研究小组来解决这些问题。研讨会的详细信息可在以下万维网地址中找到：http://www.math.psu.edu/mcc/imm.html*

9629956 Cao The philosophical theme of the meeting hinges on exploiting the analogy between piezoelectricity of ferroelectric ceramics, piezocomposites and flexoelectricity of certain liquid crystals. This analogy will embrace experimental, modelling, computational, analytic as well as industrial problems and mathematical methods arising in the study of such solid and liquid materials. It will simultaneously address issues related to processing and applications of polymeric liquid crystals, functional ceramics and composites. In a broader sense, solid materials with electromechanical or magnetomechanical coupling belong to a general category of ferroic materials. %%% The purpose of this interdisciplinary conference is bringing together researchers from interacting areas of Materials Science, including Physics and Applied Mathematics, with special focus on the latest scientific and industrial developments in materials which are currently used in computer display devices, smart structures, sensing and control devices. Through the interchange among different disciplines, we hope to channel the expertise of mathematicians and physicists to more practical problems and to form new constructive research groups to tackle such problems. Details of the workshop information can be found in the following World Wide Web address: http://www.math.psu.edu/mcc/imm.html ***