"Tor Vergata"
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Università
degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" |
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Coordinator: Prof. Paolo Podio-Guidugli, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" Team members: P. Podio-Guidugli, M. Bertsch, R. Dal Passo; G. Capriz (Pisa), C. Trimarco (Pisa); F. Davì (Ancona); A. DeSimone (Bari), S. Marzano (Bari).
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Prof. Paolo
Podio-Guidugli Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Università di Roma Tor Vergata Via di Tor Vergata 00133 ROMA ITALIA Tel: +39 06 7259 7051 Fax: +39 06 7259 7052 E-mail: ppg@uniroma2.it |
This team consists of continuum mechanists and analysts from the universities of Ancona, Pisa, Roma 2 and from the Politecnico di Bari. The researchers in this team promote interdisciplinary research, from the formulation of the basic laws governing a physical phenomenon to the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the resulting mathematical model. The main focus is on macroscopic properties reflecting microscopic phenomena, with the purpose of covering the route going from the material to the device, and the main research topics of the team are: singularities in liquid crystals and ferromagnets; electromagnetically-activated thin films, rods, and plates.
Doctoral and post-doctoral
research programmes envisaged by this team include:
thin structures
and films made of magnetostrictive and piezoelectric materials;
static and
dynamic modelling of the singularities of the order parameter in
polarized systems;
macroscopic
constitutive laws for systems exhibiting microstructures.
The desired scientific background of the candidates to the
positions offered by this team is:
continuum thermomechanics, PDE's and calculus of variations.
For general information on the TMR programme check www.cordis.lu/tmr/.
Revised: March 28, 2000