Forschungssemi­nar am 14.10.2019

Am 14.10.2019 findet das erste Forschungsseminar des WS 2019/20 statt. Prof. Zhi-Feng Huang (Wayne State University, USA) wird einen Vortrag zum Thema "Exploring Microstructures and Dynamics of Complex Systems at Multiple Scales" halten. Das Forschungsseminar findet außerplanmäßig im Raum WIL C207 um 14.00 Uhr statt.

Abstract

One of the long-lasting challenges in the study of advanced materials is how toeffectively tackle the vast complexity of the system that is of nonequilibrium natureand involves multiple spatial and temporal scales. Of particular importance is thebridging between material microstructural details and mesoscopic patterns or structures,for which much of recent theoretical effort has been devoted to the development of noveldensity-field based approaches across different scales. In this talk I will discuss somerecent advances in this field for the modeling of material microstructures and dynamics,particularly a rapidly developing area of phase field crystal methods, and some of theongoing challenges. Sample topics include the emergence of ordered phases in both solidand soft-matter systems, structures and collective dynamics of topological defects inbinary 2D materials such as h-BN, and a recent development in the continuum density-fieldmodeling that simultaneously incorporates the micro-scale interparticle bond-angleanisotropy and the global-scale rotational invariance of the system.