Date:Wed, 2 Apr 2008
From:Denis Chebikin
Subject:SPAMS tomorrow (Thursday) at 5pm in 4-231
Hi everybody,

Tomorrow Kenny will talk at SPAMS about the mathematics of sand flow.

See you there!
Denis


The mathematics of sand flow

Our world is full of many different kinds of dense materials, fluids, 
solids,
and inbetween.  Granular materials like sand are in this inbetween 
category of
amorphous matter.  Depending on how compressed it is, a chunk of sand can 
flow
like a fluid or resist deformation like a solid.  In this talk we delve 
into
the mathematical theory of continuum mechanics and apply it to the strange 
case
of granular materials.