EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: Crumpled sheets as a model system for studying multiple-scale behviors
Speaker: Shankar Venkataramani
Speaker Info: Universityof Chicago
Brief Description:
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Abstract:

There is much current interest in understanding multiple-scale behaviors in a variety of contexts ranging from composite materials to pattern formation to turbulence. In this talk, I will first give an overview of the mathematical issues that arise in the analysis of nonlinear systems displaying multiple scale behavior. I will then talk about elastic sheets, and describe a variety of problems as well as ideas that come up in the analysis of crumpling of elastic sheets. Finally, I will show how the analysis of the crumpling problem might generate techniques that are applicable to a range of other interesting problems. techniques that are applicable to a range of other interesting problems.