COMPLAS 2025

202 - Fundamentals of Defect-driven Inelasticity of Solids and Liquid Crystals

Organized by: A. Acharya (Carnegie Mellon University, United States) and J. Vinals (University of Minnesota, United States)
Keywords: defects, inelasticity, liquid crystals, numerical modeling, solids, theory
The goal of this minisymposium will be to conduct a dialog between researchers interested in understanding the emergence of macroscopic inelastic behaviors of solid and liquid crystalline media from their defect-mediated microscopic elasticity. The emphasis will be on fundamental models and experiments, even if approximate, understood through theory, computation, and experiments. The minisymposium will have an approximately equal mix of engineers, physicists, and mathematicians.