Kim's father, Thong Tran, was born in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. He fought in the American war in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1985. Kim is married to a man from Nicaragua and has two children. She tries to preserve and maintain her Vietnamese culture through the Vietnamese cuisine she cooks for her family.
Creator:
Castillo, Kim
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Postcard for Soirée Preview, presented by Kinetic Evolutions as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival at the Lab Theater. Postcard features an image of a female dancer in a red dress in the foreground and a male dancer in the background.
Created:
2011
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Performing Arts Archives.
In this talk we discuss discretization based dispersive-dissipative regularization of mixed type systems and derive the resulting closure conditions known as kinetic relations. Algebraic kinetic relations link velocities of the undercompressed jump discontinuities with the corresponding driving forces and are widely used to model dynamical respo...
Creator:
Truskinovsky, Lev (École Polytechnique)
Created:
2009-07-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
I will discuss the existence and properties of small-scaledependent shock waves to nonlinear hyperbolic systems, with anemphasis on the theory of nonclassical entropy solutionsinvolving undercompressive shocks. Regularization-sensitivestructures often arise in continuum physics, especially inflows of complex fluids or solids. The so-called kinet...
Creator:
LeFloch, Philippe G. (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie))
Created:
2009-07-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Shape memory alloys and other active materials undergo displacive phase transitions which change the symmetry of the crystal lattice through a diffusionless coordinated motion of atoms. A signature feature of these materials is the hysteresis they exhibit in response to cyclic loading. The dissipation is due to propagating phase boundaries that ...
Created:
2011-05-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
In this talk, I will discuss some latest development in the modeling of polymer-particulate nanocomposites (PNC) and biaxial liquid crystal polymers (BLCP) using kinetic theories. Kinetic theory formulation allows one to integrate the microscopic dynamics to the background macroscopic flow field to yield a two-level or even multi-level model for...
Creator:
Wang, Qi
Created:
2009-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Classical age-structured mass-action models such as the McKendrick-vonFoerster equation have been extensively studied but they arestructurally unable to describe stochastic fluctuations orsystem-size-dependent birth and death rates. Stochastic theories thattreat semi-Markov age-dependent processes using e.g., theBellman-Harris equation, cannot r...
Creator:
Chou, Tom (University of California, Los Angeles)
Created:
2015-07-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The study of shock wave theory for hyperbolic and viscous conservation laws is a good starting point for the study of certain aspects of kinetic theory. It offers different perspective and techniques than those coming from statistical mechanics. The main difference is the emphasis on the fluid dynamical phenomena. However, it is also important t...
Creator:
Liu, Tai-Ping (Stanford University)
Created:
2009-07-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
