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M. E. Taylor Analysis and PDE Seminar – Anna Zemlyanova (KSU)

Phillips Hall 385

Fracture mechanics with Steigmann-Ogden surface energy Abstract. It is known that surface energy plays an increasingly important role in modeling of objects at nano-scales. In this talk, surface energy model proposed by Steigmann and Ogden will be applied to fracture … Read more

M. E. Taylor Analysis and PDE Seminar – Pierre Albin (UIUC)

Phillips Hall 385

Analytic torsion and the sub-Riemannian limit of a contact manifold Abstract. Contact manifolds, which arise naturally in mechanics, dynamics, and geometry, carry natural Riemannian and sub-Riemannian structures and it was shown by Gromov that the latter can be obtained as … Read more