Brian Spencer - Presentations

2001

"Stress-driven morphological instabilities during the growth of strained alloy films,"
University of Delaware, Department of Mathematical Sciences (February 2001).

"Instabilities in the morphology of strained-layer alloys,"
March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Seattle WA (March 2001, invited).

"Stress-driven morphological instabilities during the growth of strained alloy films,"
State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (March 2001).

"The effect of a difference in atomic mobilities on stress-driven morphological instabilities during the growth of strained alloy films,"
University of Toronto, Department of Physics (April 2001).

2000

"Mathematical Models for Quantum Dot Formation in Strained Solid Films,"
State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Mathematics (March 2000)

"Asymptotic Models for Quantum Dot Formation in Strained Solid Films,"
SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (May 2000, invited minisymposium lecture).

"Pattern Formation in Epitaxially Strained Alloy Films,"
SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (May 2000, invited minisymposium lecture).

"Stress-driven morphological instabilities during the growth of strained alloy films,"
University of Maryland, Department of Mathematics (November 2000).

1999

"Morphological Instability in Strained Alloy Films"
Interfaces for the 21st Century, Monterey CA (August 1999, contributed poster presentation).

"Surface Instabilities in Alloy Thin Films,"
Workshop on Mathematical Developments in Modeling Microstructure and Phase Transformations in Solids, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (September 1999, invited).

1998

Equilibrium Shapes and Properties of Islands in Strained Solid Films,"
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (February 1998).

"Morphological Instability in Coherently Strained Alloy Films,"
State University of New York at Buffalo, Center for Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials (November 1998).

"Morphological Instability in Coherently Strained Alloy Films,"
Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society (December 1998, invited).

1997

"The Selection of Dendrite Tip Characteristics by Array Interactions During Directional Solidification,"
State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Physics (February 1997).

"Equilibrium Shapes of Islands in Strained Solid Films,"
State Unviersity of New York at Buffalo, Department of Mathematics (March 1997).

"The Selection of Dendrite Tip Characteristics by Array Interactions During Directional Solidification,"
Cornell University, Center for Applied Mathematics (March 1997).

"The Selection of Dendrite Tip Characteristics by Array Interactions,"
International Conference on the Dynamics of Mixed Phase Regions, Edinburgh, Scotland (June 1997, contributed).

"Equilibrium Shapes of Islands in Strained Solid Films,"
SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (July 1997, contributed).

"Equilibrium Shapes and Properties of Islands in Epitaxially-Strained Solid Films: Minimum Island Widths and Ball Formation,"
Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society (December 1997, contributed).

1996

"Equilibrium Shapes of Strained Islands in Epitaxial Films,"
Workshop on Interfaces and Thin Films, Institute for Mathematics and Applications, University of Minnesota (February 1996, invited).

"Equilibrium Shapes of Strained Islands in Epitaxial Films,"
Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (March 1996).

"Equilibrium Shapes of Strained Islands in Epitaxial Films,"
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mathematical Sciences (April 1996).

"Equilibrium Shapes of Strained Islands in Epitaxial Films,"
State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Physics (April 1996).

"Equilibrium Shapes of Islands in Strained Solid Films,"
SIAM Annual Meeting (July 1996, contributed).

"The Selection of Dendrite Tip Characteristics by Array Interactions,"
Annual meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 1996, contributed).

1995

"Nonlinear Evolution of the Stress-Driven Morphological Instability in a Two-Dimensional Semi-Infinite Solid,"
Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (March 1995, contributed).

"Equilibrium Shapes of Strained Islands,"
Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society (November 1995, contributed).

1994

"The Stress-Driven Instability of a Solid Surface,"
University of Bristol,  School of Mathematics (February 1994).

"Growth of Dendritic Arrays,"
Summer Workshop on the Mathematical Theory of Phase Transitions, University of Sussex, England (July 1994, contributed).

1993

"Nonlinear Evolution of the Stress-Driven Morphological Instability in Strained Solid Films,"
SIAM Annual Meeting (July 1993, contributed).

"Nonlinear Evolution of the Stress-Driven Instability,"
Northwestern University, Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (August 1993).

"The Stress-Driven Instability of a Solid Surface,"
University of Oxford, Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (November 1993).

1992

"Morphological Instability in Epitaxially-Strained Dislocation-Free Solid Films: Nonlinear Evolution,"
Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 1992, contributed).

1991

"Morphological Instability in Epitaxially-Strained Dislocation-Free Solid Films,"
Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 1991, contributed).

1990

"Effects of Compositionally-Generated Stress in Directional Solidification,"
Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 1990, contributed).