PDE Seminar Fall 2025

Fridays, 3:30 – 4:20pm. The talks will be either at the Sony Building or at the Stevenson Center 1 building. See below for the specific building and room of each talk. Occasionally, talks will be virtual via Zoom. When possible, in-person talks will be live streamed.

Date: Friday, Aug 22.

• Speaker: Casey Rodriguez, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
• Title: Green-elastic solids with gradient elastic boundaries.
• Abstract: In this talk, we explore recent developments in the field of gradient elasticity. We begin by providing an intuitive introduction to the theory, which extends classical elasticity by incorporating higher-order spatial derivatives that capture microstructural effects. These contributions become particularly important at small spatial scales, offering a more refined description of deformation that classical models cannot account for. We then present a novel theory of three-dimensional Green-elastic bodies with gradient elastic material boundary surfaces and highlight its application to modeling brittle fracture.
• Location: Sony Building, A1013.