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| | IMA Thematic Year on Mathematics of Materials and Macromolecules: Multiple Scales, Disorder, and Singularities, ... |
 | | Each focus group will organize a workshop in which leading experts will be invited to the IMA for several days to participate in a forum to discuss current theories, identify research opportunities, and make connections to related physical and mathematical theory. |
 | | To maintain the vitality of the research groups and the direction of the post-docs, we expect the focus group organizers to be resident at the IMA for long-term visits. |
 | | A broad set of ideas in physics and engineering, including the renormalization group, the quasicontinuum method, and a host of new methods that blend ideas from statistical mechanics, transition state theory, many body physics and continuum mechanics are being formulated, tested and refined for the change-of-scale. |
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