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
  • Mesoscale continuum models in elasticity, plasticity, damage and wave propagation, invited lecture, Mechanics of Materials Workshop, Oberwolfach Mathematical Institute, Germany, August 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, October 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, June 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, May, 2007
  • "Scale effects in infinitesimal and finite thermoelasticity of random composites," Keynote Lecture at 7th Intl. Congress on Thermal Stresses, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, June, 2007
  • "Random Microstructures, Scaling to RVE, and Stochastic Mechanics," Keynote Presentation at First American Academy of Mechanics Conference, June 2008

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, Asutin, 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