Workshop on Averaging Methods for Multiscale Phenomena in Engineering Materials; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; September 2011

该研讨会的目的是聚集国际工程、数学和物理专家，就工程应用的多尺度建模的可能性以及解决此类问题的现有数学和物理方法的潜力和缺点进行公开讨论。一批有才华的研究生将被邀请参加公开竞赛。研讨会将于2011年9月下旬举行，为期三天。将邀请15名国际专家讲课并参加小组讨论。将举行学生张贴会，从中选出15名学生。此外，观众席中还将邀请其他十位技术参与者。讲师和学生参与者将获得部分经济援助。讲习班招待会和宴会是作为社交活动计划的。拟议讲习班的社会效益在于，它是由核心的工程应用需求驱动的，但打算让杰出的数学家和物理学家参与与工程师的对话，以促进思想和实用方法的三向交流，以解决可能是现代科学和技术最重要的问题。研讨会预计将为理解和评估多尺度建模方法奠定基础，这种方法可以作为未来的共同跨学科标准，并导致工程师、数学家和物理学家之间的强有力的合作。将以非标准但有意义和有声望的形式对学生进行教育。

The objective of this workshop is to bring together international experts in engineering, mathematics, and physics to have an open discussion on the possibility of multiscale modeling for engineering applications, and the potential and shortcomings of existing mathematical and physical approaches for solving such problems. A set of talented graduate students will be invited to these deliberations by open competition. The workshop will be held over three days in the latter half of September, 2011. Fifteen international experts will be invited to give lectures and participate in a panel discussion. A student poster session will be held for which fifteen students will be selected. In addition, ten other technical participants will be invited in the audience. Lecturers and student participants will be provided partial financial assistance. A Workshop reception and a banquet are planned as social events.The societal benefit of the proposed workshop lies in the fact that it is driven by core engineering-application-needs, but intends to involve pre-eminent mathematicians and physicists in a dialog with engineers to foster a three-way cross fertilization of ideas and practical methodology to address perhaps the most important problem of modern science and technology. The workshop is expected to produce a basis for understanding and evaluating multiscale modeling methodology that can serve as a common inter-disciplinary standard for the future and lead to strong collaborations between engineers, mathematicians, and physicists. Education of students in a non-standard but meaningful and prestigious format will take place.