Table of contents : Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Foreword......Page 6 LIST OF CONTENTS......Page 8 PART 1 PRINCIPAL LECTURES open bold notitalic......Page 14 Pulse Reflection by a Random Medium......Page 16 Shape Memory Alloys-Phenomenology and Simulation......Page 35 Relativistic Extended Thermodynamics......Page 49 Spectra of Singularly Perturbed Operators......Page 66 Conservation Laws in Continuum Mechanics......Page 109 On Geometric and Modeling Perturbations in Partial Differential Equations......Page 121 The Appearance of Oscillations in Optimization Problems......Page 142 PART II SINGLE INVITED LECTURES open bold notitalic......Page 164 Some Mathematical Problems Arising From the Oil Service Industry......Page 166 Randomly Diluted Inhomogeneous Elastic Networks near the Percolation Threshold......Page 179 Adaptive Anisotropy: An Example in Living Bone......Page 187 Stability of Elastic Crystals......Page 200 Optimal Bounds for Conduction in Two-Dimensional, Two-Phase, Anisotropic Media......Page 210 Rapid Flows of Granular Materials......Page 226 The Constrained Least Gradient Problem......Page 239 The Fusion of Physical and Continuum-Mechanical Concepts in the Formulation of Constitutive Relations for Elastic-Plastic Materials......Page 257 Singularities in Elliptic Non-Smooth Problems. Applications to Elasticity......Page 273 Solitons in Elastic Solids Exhibiting Phase Transitions......Page 285 On the Dynamics of Structural Phase Transitions in Shape Memory Alloy......Page 297 On the Homogenization of Some Free Boundary Problems......Page 316 The Point Interaction Approximation, Viscous Flow Through Porous Media, and Related Topics......Page 329 The Vanishing Viscosity-Capillarity Approach to The Riemann Problem for a Van Der Waals Fluid......Page 338