Mini-Workshop: The Mathematics of Electro-Active Smart Materials

Abstract

Science and technology have produced amazing developments in the design of electronics and machinery using smart materials. Some everyday items are already incorporating smart materials as electro-rheological and magneto-rheological fluids. Such materials are capable of a rapid and significant change in their material properties on the application of a magnetic or electric field. The workshop brings together leading experts from various fields to address the mathematical and computational problems that pervade research, development, testing in the field of smart materials.