召集人：
冯帆，北京大学，力学与工程科学学院，助理教授；
陈弦，香港科技大学，机械与航天航空工程系，副教授；
John Ball，Heriot-Watt University/香港城市大学，数学系，教授
时间：2026.06.07—2026.06.13
Conference schedule
Registration and check-in: June 07, 2026 (Sunday) Breakfast: 7:30-9:00 |
June 08, 2026 (Monday) | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
8:50-9:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
9:00-9:50 | John Ball | Rank-one connections and microstructure in single crystals and polycrystals |
9:50-10:10 | Tea/Coffee break | |
10:10-11:00 | Sherry Chen | A Mechanics-Guided Roadmap for Phase-Transforming Alloys to Achieve Million-Cycle Reversibility |
11:30-14:00 | Lunch break | |
14:00-14:50 | Weiqiu Chen | Potential theory method for mechanics problems with multi-field couplings and its applications |
14:50-15:10 | Tea/Coffee break | |
15:10-16:00 | Pingbing Ming | Deep learning methods for large plate bending |
16:00-16:50 | Haigang Li | Conductivity Problems with Imperfect Low- conductivity Interfaces |
17:30-19:00 | Dinner | |
June 09, 2026 (Tuesday) | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:00-9:50 | David Srolovitz | Grain Boundary Migration and Grain Growth: recent progress and open questions |
9:50-10:10 | Group Photo and Tea/Coffee break | |
10:10-11:00 | Tomonari Inamura | Geometric compatibility and suppression of defect accumulation in martensitic transformations |
11:30-14:00 | Lunch break | |
14:00-14:50 | Jinhae Park | TBD |
14:50-15:40 | Jie Xu | Quasi-entropy: in free energies and closure approximations |
15:40-16:00 | Tea/Coffee break | |
16:00-16:50 | Shuo Yang | Convergent finite element method for liquid crystal polymer networks |
17:30-19:00 | Dinner | |
June 10, 2026 (Wednesday) | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:00-9:50 | Antonio DeSimone | Biophysics of motility of unicellular organisms |
9:50-10:10 | Tea/Coffee break | |
10:10-11:00 | Chaozhen Wei | Continuum modeling of bio-chemo-mechanical coupling in growing tissues |
11:30-13:00 | Lunch break | |
13:00-18:00 | Free Discussions/ Excursion | |
18:00-19:00 | Dinner | |
June 11, 2026 (Thursday) | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:00-9:50 | Ning Jiang | TBD |
9:50-10:10 | Tea/Coffee break | |
10:10-11:00 | Tianyu Yuan | Effective long-time diffusivity of irregular particles in an external field |
11:00-14:00 | Lunch break | |
14:00-14:50 | Changqing Chen | Static topological mechanics |
14:50-15:40 | Isaac Chenchiah | Multiphase architectured materials and morphing structures |
15:40-16:00 | Tea/Coffee break | |
16:00-16:50 | Mingjian Wen | Theory of irreducible Cartesian tensors and applications to atomistic machine learning |
17:30-19:00 | Dinner | |
June 12, 2026 (Friday) | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:00-9:50 | Yongzhong Huo | Soft, Semi-soft and Anisotropic-soft Elastic Behavior in Liquid Crystal Elastomers |
9:50-10:10 | Tea/Coffee break | |
10:10-11:00 | Rui Zhang | Hydrodynamic simulations of topological defects in nematic liquid crystals |
11:30-14:00 | Lunch break | |
14:00-14:50 | Xudong Liang | Modelling and Design of Monodomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers |
14:50-15:40 | Ju Chen | Geometric Mechanics Modeling, Computation, and Control of Constrained Dynamical Systems |
15:40-16:00 | Tea/Coffee break | |
16:00-16:50 | Fan Feng | Geometric compatibility guided design of new materials and structures |
17:30-19:00 | Dinner | |
Title and Abstract