GDR MePhy

The School is aimed primarily to PhD students, postdocs, and other young scientists wishing to broaden and deepen their knowledge or to identify new research opportunities.
A strong emphasis is put on basic concepts with several classes reviewing classical mechanics and physics. In order to keep the lectures as tutorial as possible, the 20 academic lecturers will give 1-3 talks.

The school will include

• Main lecture courses (1h20 long, including questions).
• Some « experimental lectures » based on a series of table-top experimental demonstrations by the speakers, with experiments available to the students during coffee breaks.
• flash presentations for posters, and poster sessions.
• ample time for discussion (coffee breaks, meals, and a long afternoon break)

Classes will start on August 7th in the morning and end on August 17th.

Academic talks

Basics mechanics/physics

• Continuum Mechanics – Pedro Reis (EPFL) – 3 lectures
• Experimental techniques in mechanics/physics of solids – François Hild (ENS Saclay) – 3 lectures
• Thermomechanics of dissipative processes in continuum media – Djimedo Kondo (Sorbonne Université) – 3 lectures
• Statistical physics and phase transitions – 3 lectures
• Non-linear phenomena and bifurcation theory – Stephan Fauve (ENS, Paris) – 3 lectures

Material failure and friction

• Brittle and ductile fracture G. Ravi-Chandar (Austin, USA) – 2 lectures
• Dynamic fracture and friction – Jay Fineberg (Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Israël)– 2 lectures
• Fracture and adhesion of soft solids – Tristan Baumberger (Sorbonne Université, France – I2CAM) (2 lectures)
• Earthquake mechanics Harsha Bhat (ENS-Paris, France – I2CAM) (2 lectures)

Plasticity

• plasticity of metals – Irene Beyerlein (UC Santa Barbara, USA) – 2 lectures
• mechanics of plasticity in amorphous solids – Anne Tanguy (INSA Lyon, France) and Michael Falk (Johns Hopkins, USA – I2CAM)– 3 lectures

Complex materials and « extreme mechanics’’

• Mechanics of emulsions and granular solids – Jasna Brujic (NYU, USA – I2CAM) – 2 lectures
• Mechanics of polymeric solids – 2 lectures
• Slender structures – Marcelo Dias (Aarhus University, Denmark) Benoit Roman (ESPCI, France- I2CAM) – 2 lectures