DNM
3 January 2019 to 28 June 2019
Above image: "Martensitic Material", an experiment of Tomonari Inamura's group.
Many recent and spectacular advances in the world of materials are related to complex materials having extraordinary and unique features, usually determined by their specific microstructure. Such materials are key to much technology appearing in our daily lives: they are in liquid crystal displays, in miniaturised phones, special steels in cars, plastics and composites in the construction of modern airplanes, in biological implants in human bodies, and so on.
However, despite the impressive technological applications of these materials, the theoretical understanding and modelling of them are still inadequate.The need for models and basic understanding is not just of theoretical interest, but indeed a key requirement for being able to access and further develop the true potential of these materials, to optimise them, to combine them into new materials, and to use them for creating new devices, with predefined abilities and behaviours.
The current programme aims to bring together mathematicians and scientists working in various areas of materials science and applied mathematics in order to initiate a systematic study of the optimal design of new complex materials, focusing on:
1. Topological metamaterials
2. Colloid composites
3. Composite alloys
4. Layered heterostructures
5. Woven or printed materials
6. Structural optimisation
as the distinct existing attempts from engineering, physics and chemistry. Building on the mathematical areas that are directly relevant to the scientific questions of interest, namely, optimisation and calculus of variations, geometry and topology, continuum mechanics and partial differential equations, the programme aims to identify and study the common principles and techniques of optimal material design that apply more broadly.
The Institute kindly requests that any papers published as a result of this programme’s activities are credited as such. Please acknowledge the support of the Institute in your paper using the following text:
The author(s) would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme The mathematical design of new materials, where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/R014604/1.
Click here to download the programme's final scientific report
Title | Year | Programme | Publication Date |
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Power Source Free Analysis of Pyroelectric Energy ConversionAuthors: Xian Chen |
2018 | DNM | 20 October 2022 |
Relaxation of non-local energies for structured deformations with applications to plasticityAuthors: Elvira Zappale, Marco Morandotti, David R Owen |
2018 | DNM | 20 October 2022 |
Power-Source-Free Analysis of Pyroelectric Energy ConversionAuthors: Xian Chen |
2018 | DNM | 20 October 2022 |
MICROMAGNETICS OF THIN FILMS IN THE PRESENCE OF DZYALOSHINSKII–MORIYA INTERACTIONAuthors: Dirk Praetorius, Elisa Davoli, Michele Ruggeri, Giovanni Di Fratta |
2018 | DNM | 30 October 2020 |
THE ROBIN MEAN VALUE EQUATION II: ASYMPTOTIC HOLDER REGULARITYAuthors: Marta Lewicka, Yuval Peres |
2018 | DNM | 13 June 2019 |
Existence results for the Helmholtz equation in periodic wave-guides with energy methodsAuthors: Ben Schweizer |
2018 | DNM | 13 May 2019 |
14 January 2019 to 18 January 2019
27 February 2019 to 27 February 2019
11 March 2019 to 15 March 2019
25 March 2019 to 29 March 2019
13 May 2019 to 17 May 2019
10 June 2019 to 14 June 2019
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Friedemann Brock Swansea University |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 30th January 2019 | |||
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17:00 to 18:00 |
Jonathan Robbins University of Bristol |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 6th February 2019 | |||
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16:00 to 16:40 |
Lech Longa Uniwersytet Jagiellonski |
Room 2 | |
16:40 to 17:20 |
Juho Lintuvuori Université de Bordeaux |
Room 2 | |
17:20 to 18:40 |
Nuno Araujo Universidade de Lisboa |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 13th February 2019 | |||
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16:00 to 16:40 |
Martin Kruzik Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Czech Technical University |
Room 2 | |
16:40 to 17:20 |
Marco Mazza Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamics and Self-Organisation |
Room 2 | |
17:20 to 18:00 |
Christos Likos Universität Wien |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 20th February 2019 | |||
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Virginia Agostiniani Università degli Studi di Verona |
Room 2 | |
17:00 to 18:00 |
Dorin Bucur Université de Savoie |
Room 2 |
Thursday 21st February 2019 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Elvira Zappale Università degli Studi di Salerno |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 26th February 2019 | |||
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15:00 to 15:45 |
Chris Pickard University of Cambridge |
Room 2 | |
15:45 to 16:30 |
Marco Morandotti Politecnico di Torino |
Room 2 | |
16:30 to 17:15 |
Kirill Cherednichenko University of Bath |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 6th March 2019 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Ning Jiang Wuhan University |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Ben Schweizer Technische Universität Dortmund |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 20th March 2019 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Pierluigi Cesana Kyushu University |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Cyrill Muratov New Jersey Institute of Technology |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 3rd April 2019 | |||
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14:30 to 15:10 |
Anja Schlömerkemper Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
Room 2 | |
15:10 to 15:50 |
Jun-ichi Fukuda Kyushu University |
Room 2 | |
15:50 to 16:30 |
Claudio Zannoni Università di Bologna |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 17th April 2019 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Irene Fonseca Carnegie Mellon University |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 24th April 2019 | |||
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15:00 to 17:00 |
Jeffrey Everts University of Ljubljana |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 1st May 2019 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Giovanni Di Fratta Technische Universität Wien |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Tomonari Inamura Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 8th May 2019 | |||
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15:00 to 15:40 |
Bianca Stroffolini Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
Room 2 | |
15:40 to 16:20 |
Xavier Lamy Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III |
Room 2 | |
16:20 to 17:00 |
Davit Harutyunyan University of California, Santa Barbara |
Room 2 |
Friday 10th May 2019 | |||
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Irene Fonseca Carnegie Mellon University |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 21st May 2019 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Ibrahim Fatkullin University of Arizona |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 29th May 2019 | |||
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Ivan Smalyukh University of Colorado |
Room 2 |
Monday 3rd June 2019 | |||
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Graeme Milton University of Utah |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 5th June 2019 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Robert Kohn New York University |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Marta Lewicka University of Pittsburgh |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Gregoire Allaire École Polytechnique |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 19th June 2019 | |||
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14:30 to 15:10 |
Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis None / Other |
Room 2 | |
15:10 to 15:50 |
Jose Matias Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa |
Room 2 | |
15:50 to 16:10 |
Jorn Dunkel Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 26th June 2019 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Elvira Zappale Università degli Studi di Salerno |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 15th October 2019 | |||
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17:00 to 18:00 |
Jonathan Robbins University of Bristol |
Room 2 |
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