Understanding plasticity of metals through proving discrete-to-continuum limits of interacting particle systems

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Last fiscal year, within the scope of my research plan on understanding plasticity through the limit passage of microscopic particle systems (which consists of 3 parts: (A) convergence rates, (B) particle annihilation and (C) atomistic models), I got 3 papers published, 1 accepted and 2 submitted; all of which to highly respected peer-reviewed journals.The first published paper completes part (B) in the one-dimensional case: it establishes the continuum limit for an interacting particle system in which particles of opposite sign can annihilate one another. It got published in one of the best journals in the field. The second published paper applies my previous achievements on (A) to obtain sharper estimates in approximation theory. One of the submitted papers reveals the connection between the particle system of this published paper and a quasi atomistic model (as in (C)).Concerning the remaining four papers (one published, one accepted and two submitted), two of them establish the continuum limit (hydrodynamic limit) of stochastic interacting particle systems involving both annihilation and creation, which fits to (C). The accepted paper ensures local existence and uniqueness of certain singular ODEs with tools from dynamical systems, which provide a new framework for studying particle collisions in part (B) in higher dimensions.