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Pedro Miguel Reis

Instructor in Applied Mathematics

Department of Mathematics, #2-335

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, 

MA 02139-4307
USA
e-mail: preis@@  mit.edu
            
            Instructor, MIT, USA
            CNRS Post-doc, ESPCI, Paris, France
            Research Assistant, CU of New York, USA

            Ph.D., Physics, Univ. of Manchester, UK
            CASM (Part III), Mathematics, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
            B. Sc. Physics, Univ. of Manchester, UK

Next summer (2010) I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in a dual appointment between the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT.

Research Interests: Experiments, Nonlinear Dynamics, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Granular Materials, Fluid Mechanics, Elasticity of Thin Objects, Solid Foams, Fracture, Adhesion, Biomechanics.

I am currently a Faculty Instructor at the Department of Mathematics at MIT. My scientific interests lie in the general area of nonlinear dynamics of systems driven far from equilibrium and elasticity of thin objects, which I probe primarily with experiments.

For more info, pics and videos on what I do, please visit my research pages.

Teaching:
            Spring 2010:  18.354 - Nonlinear Dynamics II: continuum systems , MIT;
            Fall 2010:      18.384 - Undergraduate Seminar in Physical Applied Math, MIT;           
            Spring 2009:  18.354 - Nonlinear Dynamics II: continuum systems , MIT;
            Fall 2008:      18.384 - Undergraduate Seminar in Physical Applied Math, MIT;
            Spring 2008:  18.02 - Multivariable Calculus;
            Fall 2007:       18.02 - Multivariable Calculus;

Latest News:

Our article 'The macroscopic delamination of thin films from elastic substrates' is published in PNAS. Press release here. More soon... Our article 'Localization through surface folding in solid foams under compression' has been accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett., More soon... Winner in the poster category of the Gallery of Fluid Motion (with S. Jung, J. James, C. Clanet, and J. W.M. Bush) – ‘Capillary origami in nature’ – Division of Fluid Mechanics Meeting(APS) 2008 , San Antonio. Our article "Unizip Instabilities: straight to oscillatory transitions in the cutting of thin elastic sheets" is published on Europhys. Lett. Our article "Tearing as a test for mechanical characterization of thin adhesive films" is published in Nature Materials and featured on the front cover.