TITLE:

Disordered Granular Chains

DATE:

Friday, March 24th, 2017

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 314

SPEAKER:

Dr. Mason Porter, Department of Mathematics, UCLA

ABSTRACT:

Granular crystals are tightly packed arrangements of solid particles that deform

on contact with each other. In this talk, I will give an introduction to granular

crystals, and I will then discuss my recent work — theoretical, computational,

and experiment — with collaborators on the propagation and scattering of

nonlinear waves in disordered one-dimensional granular crystals. I will

consider both low-disorder and high-disorder chains and will explore nonlinear

analogs of Anderson-like phenomena.

HOST:

Dr. Ricardo Carretero

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