Nonlinear Elasticity and Hysteresis – Fluid Solid Coupling in Porous Media

Dr H. Alicia Kim is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, UK and an affiliate at the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her PhD degree in Aeronautical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia in 2001. Her research expertise includes numerical methods of finite element formulation and their applications in nonlinear hysteretic materials and optimisation of aerospace structures. She has authored more than 12 international publications. Professor Robert Guyer received his PhD degree from Cornell University in 1966. He is the author of more than 200 refereed journal articles. His area of expertise includes transport in disordered systems, quantum crystals, nonlinear elasticity, granular media as well as time reversal methods in geophysics. In addition to his career at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) he has had appointments at Research Center Julich, Harvard, U of Toronto, U of Florida, Cornell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and in several industrial research labs.