Symposia and Topics

Symposia for the 2023 Mach Conference

The Mach Conference program is largely comprised of symposia that are organized around specific topics of interest, each of which contains one or more sessions.

The call for individual abstracts will be later in the fall.

Below is a list of symposia for the 2022 Mach Conference for reference:  

• AI for Materials in Extreme Conditions (Lori Graham-Brady, KT Ramesh, Jaafar El-Awady)
• Atomic to Continuum Scale Composite Mechanisms: Experiments and Modeling Investigating Multiscale Mechanical and Damage Response of Composites and Their Constituents (Christopher Meyer, Sanjib Chowdhury, Bazle Haque)
• Damage and Failure at High Strain Rates (Jose A. Rodriguez-Martinez, Zev Lovinger, Christophe Czarnota)
• Dynamic Fracture of Heterogeneous Composites (Kedar Kirane, Sakshi Braroo)
• Hypervelocity Impact Phenomena (Justin Moreno, Matt Shaeffer)
• Machine Learning Methods in Materials Design, Characterization and Modeling (Ghatu Subhash)
• Mechanics of Biological and Biomimetic Soft Materials (Kshitiz Upadhyay, Amy Dagro)
• Mechanics of Irradiated Materials (Arezoo Zare, Kshitiz Upadhyay, Lin Shao)
• Particulate Materials Under Extreme Conditions and Particle-based Methods for Describing Them (Kane Bennett, Richard Regueiro, Ryan Hurley)
• Processing of Ceramics for Extreme Environments (Rich Haber)
• Real-time Characterization of Materials Under Dynamic Deformation (Avinash M. Dongare, Cyril L. Williams, Avanish Mishra)
• Slip, Twins and Voids (Suhas Eswarappa Prameela, Burigede Liu, Suraj Ravindran, Peng Yi, Xingsheng Sun)

Topics of interest to the conference:

• Approaches to large-scale Density Functional Theory (Big DFT)
• Atomistics, potential development and molecular dynamics
• Coarse graining and fast multiscale methods
• Dynamics of flaws, fracture, failure, and fragmentation
• Energetic materials
• Image-based computational mechanics
• In situ high rate/high temperature experimentation
• Materials modeling using particle methods
• Mechanics of damage at multiple scales
• Mechanics of semi-crystalline polymers
• Novel techniques for three-dimensional material characterization
• Single fiber and single filament characterization

To view conference agendas from past years (including speakers), click here.