Micro and Nano Mechanics Group

Please contact Ill Ryu to sign up for your presentation at the group meeting.

2009-2010 Spring Quarter (3/29-6/15) Weekly Presentation Schedule
Name Date Topic Place
Steve Fitzgerald 4/5 Frank-Read sources and prismatic loops in anisotropic alpha-Fe 026
Sylvie Aubry 4/12 Research update 026
William Cash 4/19 Research update 026
Eunseok Lee, Jie Yin 4/26 Defense practice talk, Research update 126-A
Jie Yin, Keonwook Kang 5/10 Research update 026
Keonwook Kang, Seunghwa Ryu 5/17 Research update 126-A
ill Ryu 6/1 Research update 126-A


Past Group meetings

2009-2010 Winter Quarter (1/4-3/10) Weekly Presentation Schedule
Name Date Topic
Professor Wei Cai 1/13 Dislocation in torsion
Seunghwa Ryu, Eunseok Lee,Keonwook Kang 1/20 Research update
Hark Lee, Sylvie Aubry 1/27 Research update
Seokwoo Lee 2/3 Research update
Jie Yin, Ill Ryu 2/10 Research update,Qual practice talk
William Cash, Seunghwa Ryu 2/24 Research update
Eunseok Lee,Keonwook Kang, Hark Lee 3/3 Research update
Sylvie Aubry,Seokwoo Lee 3/10 Research update


2009-2010 Autumn Quarter (9/21-12/10) Weekly Presentation Schedule
Name Date Topic
Sylvie Aubry, Ill Ryu 9/22 Research update
Hark Lee, Eunseok Lee 9/29 Research update
Billy Cash, Keonwook Kang,Seunghwa Ryu 10/6 Qual practice talk , Research update
Sylvie Aubry, Seokwoo Lee 10/13 Research update
Jie Yin, Eunseok Lee 10/20 Research update
Keonwook Kang, Hark Lee 10/27 Research update
Seunghwa Ryu 11/3 Research update
Sylvie Aubry, Ill Ryu, Jie Yin 11/10 Research update
Eunseok Lee, Billy Cash 11/17 MRS talk, Research update
Seunghwa Ryu, Sylvie Aubry 11/24 MRS talk


2008-2009 Autumn Quarter (9/23-12/12) Weekly Presentation Schedule
Name Date Topic
Enseok Lee 9/25 ESC Meeting Practice, Topic TBD
Chris Weinberger 10/16 Dislocation 2008 Conference Talk Practice
Seunghwa Ryu 10/30 Nucleation in 2-D and 3-D Ising Systems I
Seunghwa Ryu 11/6 Nucleation in 2-D and 3-D Ising Systems II
Jie Yin 11/13 Elastic Fields of Dislocations in Anisotropic Media I
Keonwook Kang 11/20 Brittle and Ductile Failures of Silicon Nanowires under Tension Simulation
Chris Weinberger 11/20 Torsion and Bending Simulations of Metallic Nanowires


2007-2008 Summer Quarter (6/24-9/14)Weekly Presentation Schedule
Name Date Topic
Alfredo Correa 7/3 An introduction to Quantum Mechanics I
Alfredo Correa 7/31 An introduction to Quantum Mechanics II
Alfredo Correa 8/14 An introduction to Quantum Mechanics III
Chris Weinberger 8/28 Basic Differential Geometry I
Chris Weinberger 9/4 Basic Differential Geometry II
Seokwoo Lee 9/11 Uniaxial Compression Tests of FCC Au Nanopillars I
Seokwoo Lee 9/18 Uniaxial Compression Tests of FCC Au Nanopillars II


2007-2008 Spring Quarter (4/2-6/14)Weekly Presentation Schedule
Name Date Topic
Alfredo Correa 4/14 Quantum Corral Wave-function engineering
Seunghwa Ryu 4/22 Binary Phase Diagram from Atomistic Simulation I (Related Physics Review)
Seunghwa Ryu 4/29 Binary Phase Diagram from Atomistic Simulation II (Realization via Simulation)
Seunghwa Ryu 5/6 Fast Quantum Entanglement Minimization Algorithm (Pure mathematical approach)


2007-2008 Winter Quarter(1/8-3/16) Weekly Presentation Schedule
Name Date Topic
Yongxing Shen 1/17 Modeling electrostatic force microscopy and related technique (PhD thesis defense practice)
Sylvie Aubry 1/23 Calculation of Si thermal boundary resistance
Seokwoo Lee 1/30 Dislocation Dynamics in thin films
Jie Yin 2/6 Anisotropic elasticity I
Hark Lee 2/13 TBD
Billy Cash 2/20 Fatigue in metals
Steven Fitzgerald 2/27 An extended Frenkel-Kontorova model for crowdions
Yongxing Shen 3/5 Euler-Bernoulli beam theory applied to AFM