SGER: MRS 2005 Symposium - Coupled Non-linear Phenomena: Modeling and Simulation for Smart, Ferroic and Multiferroic Materials

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ABSTRACTThe proposal seeks financial support for the technical symposium "Coupled non-linearphenomena: Modeling and simulation for smart, ferroic and multiferroic materials" to beheld at the MRS Spring Meeting 2005 in San Francisco.The symposium addresses the field of multi-ferroic materials like, e.g., ferroelectrics,ferromagnetics, magnetostrictive materials, shape memory alloys, ferromagnetic shapememory alloys, which are increasingly being used as active materials actuators andsensors in structural systems across many scales from micro level (MEMS) to macrolevel (smart aero space and civil systems). The symposium has a strongly interdisciplinary focus, combining current modeling efforts with recent experimentalresults and applications, and is expected to cross-fertilize research activities in all threefields.The organizers have strived to bring together well-known international experts in thefield and the intent is to give an overview the current state-of-the-art of this importantmulti-disciplinary field. It is our vision to establish this symposium as a regular part ofthe MRS meeting, and we made an effort to attract high-quality researchers to help thesymposium to a good start. Funds are intended to provide partial support for the invited speakers as well as for graduate students.In terms of broader impact, papers from the symposium will be published as part of theMRS proceedings of this conference after a peer review process. Additionally, the bestpapers will be published as a special issue of the Springer journal Continuum Mechanics