International Conference on the Mechanics, Physics and Structure of Materials; Thessaloniki, Greece; August 1990

该奖项是为了表彰美国科学家参加将于1990年8月在希腊塞萨洛尼基亚里士多德大学举行的力学、物理和材料结构国际会议的部分支持。这次跨学科会议的主要目的是将来自工程、物理、材料科学和数学等不同领域的专家聚集在一起，比较他们对力学行为的观点和对塑性流动和断裂的重视。重点将放在非线性和图案形成不稳定性上，以及它们对理解新型高科技材料的机械行为的影响。分叉、自组织、分形和混沌的概念对于固体及其微观结构的情况将被严格地检验。在这方面，将再次解决从微观尺度向宏观尺度过渡的突出问题。

This award is for partial support of United States scientists participation in the International Conference on Mechanics, Physics, and Structure of Materials to be held at Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece in August 1990. The main objective of this interdisciplinary meeting is to bring together specialists from various fields such as engineering, physics, materials science, and mathematics and contrast their views on mechanical behavior with emphasis on plastic flow and fracture. Emphasis will be put on nonlinearity and pattern forming instabilities, as well as their implications into the understanding of the mechanical behavior of novel high-technological materials. The relevance of the notions of bifurcation, self organization, fractals, and chaos will critically be examined for the case of solids and the their microstructures. In this connection, the outstanding problem of the transition from microscales to macroscales will again be addressed.