Plenary and Semi-Plenary Lectures
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| Title: |
| Multi-scale modeling and computational science: Three examples |
| Lecturer: |
| Weinan E |
| Abstract: |
| We will discuss how multi-scale modeling can be used to advance our understanding of fundamental problems in science, through three examples: The moving contact line problem, dynamics of a brittle crack at low temperature and conformational changes of bio-molecules. For each one of these problems, we will summarize what has been learned as the result of multi-scale modeling. We then discuss the difficulties, in terms of formulation and algorithms, that have to be overcome in order to make multi-scale modeling a useful tool, and how to overcome these difficulties. |
 Weinan E is a professor in the department of mathematics and program of applied and computational mathematics at Princeton University. He received his B. Sc. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982, his master's degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1985 and his Ph. D. from UCLA in 1989. After visiting positions at the Courant Institute and the Institute for Advanced Study, he took a faculty position at the Courant Institute from 1994 to 1999, before moving to Princeton University. He is the recipient of the PECASE awards (1997), Feng Kang Prize (1999) and the ICIAM Collatz Prize (2003).
Weinan E's current research interest centers on stochastic and/or multi-scale, multi-physics modeling. His current work addresses problems in the theory and modeling of rare events, multi-scale modeling of complex fluids and micro-fluidics, atomistic and continuum modeling of solids, as well as other types of problems with multiple time scales. |
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