My research is concerned with understanding properties of microstructures in metals, alloys and semi-conductors using numerical techniques such as molecular dynamics, Monte-Carlo and optimization. I analyze microstructures at the nano and micro levels in order to reproduce and explain experimental observations. The fundamental questions I want to answer are

What are the relations between microstructures and the mechanical behavior of the material? How heat transfer is effected by the presence of microstructures and material geometry such as defects, grain boundaries, impurities etc.? How to improve constitutive equations by incorporating information coming from the atomistic level?

More information about my work can be found on my personal webpage at http://www.stanford.edu/people/sylvie.aubry

Dr. Sylvie Aubry Email: sylvie.aubry@stanford.edu Engineering Research Associate Work phone(s): (650) 723-2173 Work address: Durand building Room 219 Mechanics and Computation Department of Mechanical Engineering MS 4040 Stanford, California 94305