Ostoja-Starzewski lectures at international symposium
7/22/2014 Meredith Staub
MechSE professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski gave four invited lectures on mechanics of random media, fractals in mechanics of materials, and generalized thermoelasticity at the International Symposium on Modern Mathematics and Mechanics.
Written by Meredith Staub
MechSE professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski gave four invited lectures on mechanics of random media, fractals in mechanics of materials, and generalized thermoelasticity at the International Symposium on Modern Mathematics and Mechanics. The symposium took place June 23-27 at Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic.
The symposium formed part of an ongoing long-term project, “Streamlining the Mathematics Studies at the Faculty of Science of Palacký University Olomouc,” that aimed to bring pure mathematics research to bear on physics and engineering applications within the framework of international collaboration. The project is sponsored by the European Social Fund and the Czech Republic.
“The symposium was a rather unique opportunity to get a feel for the way mathematics research and its applications in mechanics are conducted in a very old city in Central Europe, which, interestingly, has the highest density of university students in that part of the world,” Ostoja-Starzewski said.
Other speakers at the conference hailed from Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, France, and Poland.