Invited Lectures & Seminars

Selected/Recent invited/plenary/keynote lectures

Micromechanically based random fields, ICOSSAR’93 – 6th Intl. Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, Innsbruck, Austria, 1993.
On the transition of acceleration waves into shock waves in random media, IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Waves in Solids, University of Victoria, 1993.
Random field models and scaling laws of heterogeneous media, invited lecture, 4th Meeting on Current Ideas in Mechanics and Related Fields in honour of Prof. H. Zorski, 1997
Mesoscale continuum models in elasticity, plasticity, damage and wave propagation, invited lecture, Mechanics of Materials Workshop, Oberwolfach Mathematical Institute, Germany, 1998
Two- and three-dimensional fiber network models for paper mechanics, with D. Stahl, 1999 TAPPI International Paper Physics Conference, San Diego, CA, 1999
Microstructure-based stochastic finite element methods for elastostatics and elastodynamics, Interactive Plenary Session, AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Forum, AIAA Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2000
Mechanics of random media as a tool for scale effects in ice fields, IUTAM Symposium on Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics Fairbanks, Alaska, 2000 (J.P. Dempsey and H.H. Shen, organizers)
Towards plasticity of random media, invited lecture, PLASTICITY’2000 – Eighth International Symposium on Plasticity, Whistler, B.C., Canada, 2000
Lattice Models, invited lectures, Course on Micromechanics of Materials, Ameland, The Netherlands, 2000, organized by E. van der Giessen and J. van Mier (Delft University of Technology)
The use, misuse, and abuse of stochastics in mechanics of random media, keynote lecture in Mini-Symposium “Heterogeneous Materials and Homogenization,” ECCM-2001: 2nd European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Cracow, Poland, 2001 (Cracow University of Technology)
Stochastic homogenization of inelastic microstructures, Symposium on Micromechanics of Multiphase Materials – Modelling and Application, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg and GKSS Research Centre, Germany, 2001
Random formation versus inelastic response of paper, IUTAM Symposium on Micromechanics of Fluid Suspensions and Solid Composites, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
Elastic and elastoplastic response of periodic versus random composites,” with M. Jiang and I. Jasiuk, in Special Session on Bridges from “Applied” to “Mathematics” – III, 2002 AMS and MAA Spring Southeastern Section Meetings, Atlanta, GA, 2002
“Material Spatial Randomness,” keynote lecture at International Conference on Heterogeneous Material Mechanics, China, 2003
“Plasticity of random media: Status and challenges,” leading lecture in Symposium on Plasticity of Multiphase Materials, PLASTICITY’2003 – Tenth International Symposium on Plasticity, Québec City, Canada, 2003
“Mechancs of random materials,” Marie Curie Session “Challenges in Mechanics,” IUTAM Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 2004
“Mesoscale bounds on response of random materials,” Keynote lecture in Symposium “Homogenization and Effective Characterstics,” 8th US Nat. Cong. Comp. Mech., 2005, Austin, TX
“How big is big enough? [On the size of RVE in random media],” Mechanics of Materials Workshop in Oberwolfach www.mfo.de, Germany, 2006
“On the size of RVE in elastic, plastic, thermoelastic, and porous random microstructures,” Keynote lecture in Symposium “Multi-Scale Mechanical Modelling of Materials and Engineering Applications,” with X. Du, Z. Khisaeva and W. Li, THERMEC’2006, Vancouver, Canada
“On formulating continuum mechanics of fractal media,” Plenary Lecture at Understanding Complex Systems, Loomis Lab of Physics – UIUC, 2007
“Scale effects in infinitesimal and finite thermoelasticity of random composites,” (Keynote) at 7th Intl. Congress on Thermal Stresses, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007
“Random Microstructures, Scaling to RVE, and Stochastic Mechanics,” (Keynote) at First American Academy of Mechanics Conference, 2008
“Geodesics and lack of normality in random elasto-plastic composites,” (Keynote) Plasticity’2009, St. Thomas, 2009
“Fractals in mechanics of materials,” (Keynote) IV European Congress on Computational Mechanics (ECCM IV), Paris, France, 2010
“MRI-based model of TBI vis-à-vis random fractal geometry of brain,” CMM Brain Neuromechanics Workshop, Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Canada, 2010
“Lattice Models of Cellular Materials, and Mechanics of Random Media,” at Workshop on the mechanical modeling of random open cell foams, newsletter, Technical University Freiberg, Germany, 2013
“Tensor Random and Fractal Fields,” EUROMECH Colloquium 563 – Generalized Continua and their Application to the Design of Composites and Metamaterials, Cisterna di Latina, Italy, 2014
4 Invited Lectures in International Symposium on Modern Mathematics and Mechanics, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, June 23-27, 2014
“Tensor Random Fields,” invited talk at Stochasticity 2014, Oct. 24-25, 2014
“Continuum mechanics beyond the second law of thermodynamics,” general lecture at 2nd International Conference on CONTINUOUS MEDIA WITH MICROSTRUCTURE, Łagów, Poland, 2-5 March, 2015
“Continuum mechanics beyond the second law of thermodynamics,” Interdisciplinary CAS Spring Symposium: Showcasing Research of CAS Associates and Fellows, University of Illinois, April 21, 2015
“Scaling to RVE in viscoelasticity of random composites,” keynote lecture, 52^nd Ann. Tech. Mtg. of Soc. Eng. Sci., Texas A&M University, 2015
“Second law of thermodynamics violations vis-á-vis continuum physics,” keynote lecture, Emerging Trends in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics – ETAMM-2016, Perpignan, France, 2016
“Continuum mechanics versus violations of the second law of thermodynamics,” keynote lecture, 11th International Congress on Thermal Stresses, Salerno, Italy, 2016
“Violations of second law of thermodynamics in fluid and solid mechanics,” The 11^th International Workshop on Subsecond Thermophysics, Cracow, Poland, 2016
“Waves in Random Media with Fractal and Hurst Characteristics” in “Nonlinear Wave Phenomena in Continuum Physics: Some Recent Findings” WAVES 2017 (The Tenth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory), Athens, GA
“Tensor Random Fields in Mechanics,” plenary lecture (co-authored by A. Malyarenko), UNCECOMP 2017 (2nd International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering), Rhodes, Greece
“Waves on random fields with fractal and Hurst effects,” keynote lecture (co-authored by V. Nishawala), UNCECOMP 2017 (2nd International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering), Rhodes, Greece.

Invited Seminars

Atmospheric Environment Service Canada, Toronto, Canada, 1984, 1985
Center for Applied Mathematics, Purdue University, IN, 1987
Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, B.C., Canada, 1988
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada, 1988
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, 1989
Battelle Northwest Research Labs, WA, 1989
School of Civil Engineering, Cornell University, NY, 1989
Department of Physics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, 1989
School of Geosciences, Purdue University, IN, 1989
Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, NY (three seminars), 1989
Physical Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Canada, 1990
Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, Paris, France, 1990
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, 1991
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, 1991
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, 1993
E. Schmidt Institute of Metal Physics, Montanuniversität, Leoben, Austria, 1993
Centre des Matériaux, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, 1993, 1995, 1999
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994
Department of Aerospace Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1994
Department of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1994
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides, Ecole Polytechnique, France, 1995
Dept. of Mechanics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, 1995
Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995
Institute for Mechanics and Materials/Dept. of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science, UCSD, 1995 and 1999
Research Institute, Government Printing Bureau, Odawara, Japan, 1996
New Oji Paper Co., Tokyo, Japan, 1996
Beloit Corp., WI, 1996
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997
Eastman Kodak Corp., Rochester, NY, 1997
Union Camp Corp., Princeton, NJ, 1998
Princeton Materials Institute and Department of Civil Engineering & Operations Research, Princeton University, 1998
Hercules Corp., Wilmington, DE, 1998
Laboratoire de Modélisation en Mécanique and CNRS, Université Piere et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 1999
School of Mathematics/Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999
Altair Engineering, Austin, TX, 2000
GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany, 2001
Faculty of Mathematics and Computation, University of Havana, 2002
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, Poland, 2002
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Canada, 2003
COREM, Québec City, Canada, 2003
Canadian Space Agency, St-Hubert, Canada, 2004
GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004
Institute for Materials Testing, Materials Science and Strength of Materials (IMWF), University of Stuttgart, Germany (two seminars), 2004
Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Calgary, 2005
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UCSD, 2007
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Structural Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008
Faculty of Automotive and Construction Machinery Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, 2009
Fibre Science and Communication Network, Mid Sweden University, 2009
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, 2009
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Illinois University, 2009
Nanomedicine Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas Houston Health Science Center, 2010
Institute of Mathematics Applied to Science and Engineering, University of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain, 2010
Kimberly–Clark Corp., WI, 2010
Institute for Mechanics and Materials/Dept. of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science, University of California, San Diego, 1995, 1999, 2007, 2010, 2015
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy, 2011, 2014
Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy, 2011
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2011
Peter Gergely Lecture, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2011
Mechanics and Computation Group, Stanford University, 2012
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
W. Olszak & A. Sawczuk Lecture, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2012, 2016
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University, 2013
School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 2013
Institut für Technische Mechanik, Johannes Kepler University-Linz, Austria, 2014
AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland, 2014
Université de Rennes 1 – Institut de Recherche Mathématiques de Rennes, France, 2014
Institute of Structural Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poland, 2015
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
Center for Nonlinear Studies Colloquium, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2015
Warren Lecture, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2016
Division of Applied Mathematics, Mälardalen University, Sweden, 2016
Inaugural Lectures for 2016-2017 Graduate Program, Department of Continuum Mechanics and Theory of Structures, University of Seville, Spain, 2016
Department of Physics, Lehigh University, 2016
Director’s Seminar, Beckman Institute, UIUC, 2017
Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida at Gainesville, 2018
Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, Vienna University of Technology, 2018
Computational Physics Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2019
China University of Mining and Technology, 2019
Zhejiang University, China, 2019
Department of Equations of Mathematical Physics, University of Warsaw, 2021
MAM Seminar, Mälardalen University, Sweden, 2022
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, 2023
School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, UK, 2023
School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK, 2023