Speaker:
Paul Goldbart, Georgia Tech
Event Date and Time:
Thu, 2013-11-14 16:00 - 17:00
Local Contact:
Robert Raussendorf
Intended Audience:
Undergraduate
Abstract: Launched before the atomic hypothesis held sway, the conventional theory of elasticity is a spectacular intellectual achievement. A continuum-level theory, it furnishes scientists and engineers with a powerful, internally consistent toolkit for determining how architecturally simple (i.e., regular) solid media such as crystals respond macroscopically to imposed stresses, whilst encoding the underlying microscopic details of the atomic realm economically, via a handful of numerical parameters.