IUTAM（国际理论与应用力学协会）数名执委将在8月22日访问我校，其中来自爱沙尼亚的Jüri Engelbrecht教授将做题目为“STRIVING FOR FRONTIER RESEARCHIN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA”的学术报告，欢迎感兴趣的老师及学生届时参加。
报告时间：2007年 8月 22 日下午2：30
报告地点：强度与振动教育部重点实验室会议室（教一楼南208）
Abstract
The talk consists of two parts. In Part I, the general ideas of the European Research Area are briefly described. In Part II, an overview on the activities of the Centre for Nonlinear Studies – CENS , Institute of Cybernetics at the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia is presented. CENS is an interdisciplinary unitdealing with solid and fluid mechanics, biomechanics, nonlinear dynamics, etc., and forms a node in the research network of Europe.
Part I. The ideas of the European Union for creating the Europan Research Area (known as Lisbon and Barcelona ideas) are actually about creating the Europe of knowledge. The recent steps taken by the EU are related to the launching of the Framework Programme 7 together with several funding instruments. The keywords for the current R&D are frontier research, excellence and innovation, a new instrument called the European Research Council (ERC) is created for funding the frontier research in all the fields. There are many institutional stakeholders who are involved in science policy issues in order to formulate more coherent steps. Some ideas in this context will be presented based on the experience of the author in various institutions (ALLEA, ESF, EURAB).
Part II. CENS is a small interdisciplinary unit for basic research which deals with the following problems: (i) nonlinear waves of deformation in solids: complexity of wave motion, microstructured materials and hierarchy of scales, solitons, phase-transformation fronts, acoustodiagnostics; (ii) fractality and biophysics: in silico modelling of cardiac mecahnics and cell energetics, heart rate variability, turbulent diffusion, statistical topography and flooding; (iii) nonlinear integrated photoelasticity: stress field tomography, interference fringes; (iv) water waves: marine physics, anomalies of wave fields, solitons, extreme waves; (v) nonlinear signal processing: analysis of physiological signals; (vi) geometric approach to the theory of differential equations. CENS runs several EU projects: a FP 6 project on Nonintrusive Devices (based on shape memory alloys), an ERA-NET Complexity, a Marie Curie scheme of twinning with the Centre of Mathematics for Applications (Oslo), an EU Network of Excellence AIM@SHAPE on shape modelling, a training Network SEAMOCS; in addition there are: French-Estonian collaboration project PARROT,COST and NATO grants, etc. In preparation is an EU network on „Nonlinear Dynamics of Advanced Materials”. Bilateral agreements of co-operation are withabout 15 centres, mostly in Europe. An overview on current results will be given.For Annual Reports of CENS,see the webpage (http://cens.ioc.ee).
Prof Jüri Engelbrecht
Head, CENS, Estonia
President, ALLEA – the European Federation of National Academies
Member, EURAB – the European Research Advisory Board
Member,Governing Council of the ESF – European Science Foundation
Treasurer, IUTAM