Local Organising Committee:
· Tony Carbery, University of Edinburgh
· Jack Carr, Heriot-Watt University
· Chris Eilbeck, Heriot-Watt University
· Robin Knops, Heriot-Watt University
· John Toland, University of Bath
2008 was the 60th birthday of Sir John Ball, FRS, FRSE and we celebrated this occasion during the workshop. Lecture notes and photographs are available here.
Objectives:
- Mapping new frontiers of research
- Building bridges between the most recent developments in the general mathematical theory and the areas of applications that have developed most actively in the last few years,
- Identifying new applications of PDE
Themes:
- Nonlinear elasticity and liquid crystals
- Material science; microstructure, minimizer in the presence of symmetry, relation with experiment
- Calculus of variations
- Systems of conservation laws
- Transport equations
- Biomaterials Dynamical systems methods and the PDEs of mechanics
