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09:35 - 10:10 Alan Needleman (Texas A&M University, USA) Discrete Shear Transformation Zone (STZ) Plasticity
10:10 - 10:45 Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California, San Diego, USA) Self-similarly expanding ellipsoidal inclusions as a model for deep focus earthquakes and dynamic instabilities
11:10 - 11:45 Jean-Baptiste Leblond (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert - University Pierre and Marie, France) A new theoretical approach of Greenwood-Johnson's mechanism of transformation plasticity of metals and alloys
11:45 - 12:20 Amit Acharya (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Finite deformation mesoscale field dislocation mechanics
14:00 - 14:35 Stefanie Heyden (Bonn University, Germany) Functional optimality of the sulcus pattern of the human brain
14:35 - 15:10 Pratheek Shanthraj (Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany) Chemo-mechanical modelling of dislocations in complex alloys
15:10 - 15:45 Jose A. Rodríguez-Martínez (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain) Random distributions of material defects trigger regular necking patterns at high strain rates
16:10 - 16:45 Eleni Agiasofitou (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Micromechanics of dislocations: a new insight into the J-, M-, and L-integrals
16:45 - 17:20 Claude Stolz (Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France) On bounding global behaviour for composite with imperfect interface between phases

09:00 - 09:35 Viggo Tvergaard (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Nucleation from a cluster of inclusions, leading to void coalescense
09:35 - 10:10 Michael Ortiz (Bonn University, Germany, and California Institute of Technology, USA) The anomalous yield behavior of fused-silica glass
10:10 - 10:45 William Curtin (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland) From DFT to ductility in Mg alloys
11:10 - 11:45 Kerstin Weinberg (Universität Siegen, Germany) On variational and ad-hoc formulations in phase-field fracture modeling of brittle solids
11:45 - 12:20 Ramón Zaera (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain) Solitons solutions for two-dimensional lattices on a nonlinear bed
14:00 - 14:35 Dennis Kochmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Beyond trusses - metamaterials with tunable stiffness and improved strenght
14:35 - 15:10 Brian Nyvang Legarth (Technical University of Denmark) Interaction between a blunted crack-tip and voids in a plastically anisotropic metal
15:10 - 15:45 Mitchell Luskin Mechanical Relaxation of Incommensurate 2D Heterostructures in Configuration Space
16:10 - 16:45 Jaime Marian (University of California Los Angeles, USA) Dislocation-solute interactions on diffusive timescales using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations
16:45 - 17:20 Markus Lazar (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Singularity-free dislocation continuum theory for anisotropic crystals

09:00 - 09:35 Alain Molinari (University of Lorraine, France) Internal length scales in ductile materials under dynamic loading
09:35 - 10:10 Sergio Conti (Bonn University, Germany) Variational modeling of dislocation microstructures in crystals
10:10 - 10:45 Varvara Kouznetsova (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) Fine scale plasticity and damage of martensite in advanced steels
11:10 - 11:45 Daniel Rittel (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) The physics and mechanics of dynamic shear localization
11:45 - 12:20 Dominique Leguillon (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert - University Pierre and Marie, France) Defects and grain size in ceramics. An interpretation of the Petch law by the coupled criterion

09:00 - 09:35 Javier Llorca (IMDEA Materials, Spain) Multiscale modelling of precipitation hardening in Al-Cu alloys
09:35 - 10:10 Pedro Ponte Castañeda (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Finite-strain homogenization models for porous viscoplastic polycrystals
10:10 - 10:45 Stanisław Stupkiewicz(Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) Minimal gradient-enhancement of crystal plasticity: size effects in spherical and wedge indentation
11:10 - 11:45 Henrik Myhre Jensen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Initiation and propagation of kink bands in layered materials
11:45 - 12:20 Mathias Lebihain (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert - University Pierre and Marie, France) How do microstructural defects make fracture surfaces rough in brittle materials?
14:00 - 14:35 Gustavo M. Castelluccio (Cranfield University, UK) Physics-based strategies to address parameter uncertainty in crystal plasticity
14:35 - 15:10 Alejandro Mota (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) The Schwarz alternating method for concurrent multiscale in finite deformation solid mechanics
15:10 - 15:45 Juan Pedro Mendez (California Institute of Technology, USA) Diffusive molecular dynamics simulations
16:10 - 16:45 Haiyang Yu (Oxford University, UK) Continuum scale hydrogen-microvoid interactions and their implications
16:45 - 17:20 Ercan Gürses (Middle East Technical University) Micromechanical modeling of highly heterogeneous deformation fields in spherulite microstructures

09:00 - 09:35 Vikram Deshpande (Cambridge University, UK) The role of interfacial diffusion in the creep of Ni superalloys
09:35 - 10:10 Bob Svendsen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Projection-fluctuation-based spatio-temporal coarse-graining of dislocation dynamics
10:10 - 10:45 Mauricio Ponga (University of British Columbia, Canada) Accelerated mesodynamics: A new technique for time acceleration in atomic simulations
11:10 - 11:45 Emilio Martínez Pañeda (Cambridge University, UK) Unraveling fracture phenomena through strain gradient plasticity
11:45 - 12:20 Vikram Gavini (University of Michigan, USA) Real-space electronic structure studies on the energetics of dislocations in Al-Mg materials system and its connection to mesoscale models