Program
 

Sunday, 2nd of September 2001
 
 

17:00 - 20:00
Registration
 
 

Monday, 3rd of September 2001
 
 

  
8:30 - 9:00


9:00 - 9:10
Registration


Opening

Thermodynamics 1
9.15 - 10.00
D.Jou:  Temperature and entropy in several nonequilibrium situations
10.00 - 10.15  Coffee break
10.15 - 10.40 J. Verhas: Onsager's reciprocal relations and some basic laws
10:45 - 11:10 V. Ciancio: A Thermodynamic Theory for Media with Intrinsic Material Metric
11:10 - 11:25 Coffee break
11:25 - 11:50 C. Trimarco: A  LAGRANGIAN APPROACH TO ELECTROMAGNETIC BODIES
11:55 - 12:20 A. Berezowski: Thermodynamics of discrete systems and martensitic phase transition simulation
12:25 - 12:50 V. Cimelli: On the Governing Equations of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics: Boundary
Conditions and Causality Requirement

13:00 -14:30 Lunch
Relativistic Theory 
14:30 - 15:15
H.-H.v. Borzeszkowski : The problem of entropy in general relativistic theory
15:20 - 15:45 T. Chrobok: Spinning fluids in relativistic hydrodynamics
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee break
Applications
16:00 - 16:25
F. Marotti de Sciarra: On Multi-Field Approximation Methods
16:30 - 16:55 L. Rosati: Evaluation of Conjugate Stresses to Seth's Strain Tensors
17:00 - 17:25 O. Weckner: Numerical dispersion error in finite methods, exemplified by the absolutely straight beam undergoing bending oscillations
17:30 - 17:55 E. Binz: From micro to macro via signal interactions
18:00 - 18:30 Poster session

Tuesday, 4th of September 2001

 

9:00 - 9:45 H. Ehrentraut: Flows of liquid crystals and granular materials - similiarities and differences
9:50 - 10:35 S. Kotowski: Evolution Criterion in the Coupled Fields Theory
10:35 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:35 G. Maugin: The slow march towards an analytical mechanics of dissipative materials
11:40 - 12:25 Z. Bilicki: Thermodynamic aspects in modelling two-phase liquid –vapour system
12:30 - 12:55 P. Van: Weakly nonlocal irreversible thermodynamics
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 D. Bedeaux: Mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics for quantum systems
15:20 - 16:05 G. Lebon: A comparative study of thermodiffusion by Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics and GENERIC
16:05 -16:20 Coffee break
16:20 - 17.05 P. Haupt: Representation of Anisotropic Viscoplasticity
17:10 - 17:55 J. Keller: Gas Adsorption Phenomena, Experiments &Theory
18:00 - 18:25 Liliana Restuccia: Changing the Observer and Moving Materials in Continuum Physics: Objectivity and Frame-Indifference
20:00 - ? Conference dinner

Wednesday, 5th of September 2001
 

Computer Simulations
9:00 - 9:45
S. Hess: Elastic and plastic behavior of model solids
9:50 - 10:15 Agnieszka Chrzanowska: Properties of a 2D system of hard needles from molecular dynamics: differences between elastic and granular needles
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
Thermodynamics 2
10:30 - 11.15
K.-H. Hoffmann: Recent developments in Finite Time Thermodynamics
11:20 - 11:45 Nina Kirchner: The entropy principle of Müller and Liu and linear programming duality
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 12:45 M. Rubi: Mesoscopic Non-Equilibrium  Thermodynamics
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
Complex materials
14:30 - 15:15
W. Kosinski: On the added mass effects for porous media
15:20 - 15:45 A. G. Krawietz: A phenomenological approach to the nanomechanics of microemulsions
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:25 A. Ossowski: Dynamical system approach in the analysis of genetic algorithm comlexity.
16:30 - 16:55 B. Maruszewski: VISCOMAGNETOELASTIC INTERACTIONS IN A VORTEX ARRAY IN THE TYPE-II SUPERCONDUCTOR
16:55 - 17:10 Coffee break
17:10 - 17:35
Simona De Cicco: On the Mechanical Theories of Continua with Microstructure 
17:40 - 18:05
A. Potapov: SOLITONS AND MULTIWAVE INTERACTIONS IN LIQUID CRYSTALS
20:00
Sightseeing tour by boat

Thursday, 6th of September 2001
 

Differential geome-  metry and other Ma- thematical methods
9:00 - 9:45
De Leon: Nonholonomic constraints in Classical Field Theories. - Applications to Continuum Mechanics -
9:50 - 10:15 J. Slawianowski: Group - Theoretic Approach to Internal and Collective Degrees  of Freedom in Mechanics and Field Theory
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 10:55 M. Elzanowski: ON THE EVOLUTION OF MATERIAL STRUCTURES
11:00 - 11:25 R. Segev: Flux-conjugate stresses
11:25 - 11:40 Coffee break
11:40 - 12:05 M. Epstein: Material geometry of liquid-crystal-like bodies
12:10 - 12:35 M. Pitteri: Some remarks on the classification of crystal lattices
12:40 - 13:05
13:05 - 14:30  Lunch
Elasticity and Plasticity
14:30 - 15:15
A. Bertram: On Representations of Generalized Stress and Strain Measures with Applications in Finite Elasticity
15:20 - 15:45 T. Kletschkowski: An inelastic material model for PTFE
15.45 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:25 Romano: A Functional Analysis Approach to the Mechanics of Continuous Structures
16:30 - 16.55 M. Dolfin: Localization of deformations in finite elastoplasticity and applications
17:00 - 17:25 M. Wolff: Mathematical modeling of thermo-mechanical behaviour of steel including phase transitions and transformation-induced plasticity
17:30 - 18:00 Closing ceremony