Dear colleagues,I would like to draw your attention to the focus session  » Wetting and Adhesion of Soft Materials : Dynamics and Instability » at the upcoming APS March Meeting, March 2-6, Denver, CO. The invited speaker is Etienne Barthel, ESPCI Paris. A description of the scope of the session can be found at the end of this email.

Deadline for abstract submission is Friday, October 25, 2019. Abstracts can be submitted here.
To ensure placement in the correct session, you should select the focus session :02.01.02 Wetting and Adhesion of Soft Materials: Dynamics and Instability (DSOFT, DPOLY, GSNP) [same as 01.01.31, 03.01.44]
Please feel free to pass on this information to anyone who might be interested.
I am looking forward to seeing you in Denver!
Best regards,Julien

02.01.02 Wetting and Adhesion of Soft Materials: Dynamics and Instability (DSOFT, DPOLY, GSNP) [same as 01.01.31, 03.01.44]

The wetting and adhesion properties of soft materials are relevant for a wide range of applications including antibiofouling and hydro/omniphobic coatings, medical dressings, water harvesters, microfluidic and MEMS/NEMS devices. In many situations, the macroscopic properties crucially depend on the physical processes localized near a line (contact line, fracture, triple line, etc…) where the two materials and a liquid/gas phase meet. The adhesion of linear elastic solids and the wetting of Newtonian fluids on homogeneous hard substrates are two ideal cases that have been studied intensively, yielding models bridging macroscopic linear behavior with contact line dynamics. Yet, beyond these idealized cases, many open questions arise concerning the local dissipative processes operating in the dynamical regimes. 

New and exciting applications in wetting and adhesion rely heavily on the complex rheological properties of fluids and soft solids, mechanical behavior at large deformations, and surface patterning. In the regimes of interest, the triple line is subjected to complex dissipation mechanism either localized near the contact line through steady stade motion or through spontaneous and noise-induced instabilities (stick-slip, avalanches, cavitation, pearling) at a mescoscale. While many efforts have been made over the last few years to capture these phenomena, our understanding is still very limited. This focus session aims at bringing together experimentalists and theoreticians.

Organizer: Julien Chopin (julien.chopin@ufba.br); Julien Chopin (julien.chopin@ufba.br)

Dear all, 
please find enclosed a workshop of interest for this community, mixing microtechnology and insect science. Several speakers are well known in the MePhy community.
https://insect-bio-inspiredmicrotechnology.insight-outside.fr/
It is in Grenoble, France, 21-22nd of november.
All the best
Prof. Jérôme Casas
Classe exceptionnelle, Université de Tours
Membre  Institut Universitaire de France – Paris
Chaire en technologie bio-inspirée CEA/LETI/CARNOT – Grenoble

Institut de Recherche en Biologie de l’Insecte
IRBI UMR CNRS 7261
37200 Tours
FRANCE

The Mathematics Department at Trinity College is pleased to announce:

Dynamics Days 2020
January 3-5, 2020
Hilton, Hartford, CT

Dynamics Days is in international conference on chaos and nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and its applications. Dynamics Days is an international conference on nonlinear dynamics, chaos and its applications. Talks will cover a broad range of topics, including fluid dynamics, biological systems, dynamics on networks, synchronization of nonlinear systems, and pattern formation.

Dynamics Days 2020 will take place in the Hilton in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, from Friday, January 3 to Sunday, January 5, 2020. Invited speakers are:

Daniel Abrams (Northwestern University)
Spring Berman (Arizona State University)
Lydia Borouiba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jessica Conway (Pennsylvania State University)
Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Chris Danforth (University of Vermont)
Flavio Fenton (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Leon Glass (McGill University)
Matthew Hoffman (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Edgar Knobloch (University of California at Berkeley)
Rennie Mirollo (Boston College)
Louis Pecora (Naval Research Laboratory)
Chad Topaz (Williams College)
Marie-Therese Wolfram (University of Warwick)
Greg Voth (Wesleyan University)

Abstract submissions are now open and will close at the deadline of November 8, 2019. 

For further information on the conference, including the abstract submission link, the conference program, online registration, and travel support for graduate students and postdocs, please visit the conference website at

sites.google.com/site/dynamicsdays2020/
We hope to see you in Hartford in January.

The organizing committee,

Per Sebastian Skardal (chair), Andrea Bertozzi, Elizabeth Cherry, Lina Ma, Kevin Mitchell, and Juan G. Restrepo

This spring school aims a gathering Mathematicians and Physicists 
for an interdisciplinary meeting on Wave Turbulence. The courses 
will cover a vast panorama of issues from mathematics, physical 
theory, experiments and field measurements in Wave Turbulence. 
Both researchers and students are welcome. The program and the 
list of invited lecturers can be found on the school website : 
http://wt2020.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr.

Registration are open. 
Organizers: N. Mordant, L. Saint-Raymond, P.-P. Cortet 

« Biophysique de l’interaction racine – sol »

18-19 novembre 2019 – Clermont-Ferrand
Le développement du système racinaire est une composante essentielle dans la croissance et le fonctionnement des plantes terrestres. Contrairement aux parties aériennes des plantes, les racines se développent dans un milieu contraignant et hétérogène. En réponse aux inhomogénéités du sol, qu’elles soient de nature physico-chimique (gradients de nutriments ou de répartition de l’eau…), biologique ou mécanique, le système racinaire est très plastique (modulable).

L’objectif de ce workshop sera d’échanger autour de cette thématique centrée autour de la racine, avec l’idée de rassembler des acteurs de diverses communautés (biologistes, physiciens, modélisateurs, mécaniciens…) et travaillant à différentes échelles (macroscopique, tissulaire, cellulaire et subcellulaire). Sont bienvenus tous les scientifiques intéressés par le sujet.

Organisation
Le workshop se déroulera sur deux demi-journées, les 18 novembre après-midi et 19 novembre matin 2019 aux Campus des Cézeaux de l’Université Clermont-Auvergne (amphi Recherche-Pôle Physique) à Clermont-Ferrand. Chacun, s’il le souhaite, pourra présenter ses travaux, ses réflexions ou questions pendant une dizaine de minutes suivies d’une discussion. 

Inscription
L’inscription est gratuite mais obligatoire (voir ci-dessous). Elle inclut les repas de midi et du soir. En revanche, le déplacement et le logement sont à la charge des participants. 
L’inscription se fait sur le site du GDR en suivant le lien suivant :
https://gdrphyp.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/workshop-biophysique-de-linteraction-racine-sol-18-19-nov-2019-clermont-ferrand/
 
INSCRIPTION SOUHAITEE le plus tôt possible, et impérative AVANT LE 25 OCTOBRE 2019.
 
Contacts : Evelyne Kolb (evelyne.kolb@upmc.fr) – Marie-Béatrice Bogeat-Triboulot (marie-beatrice.bogeat@inra.fr) et Valérie Legué (valerie.legue@uca.fr)
Vous pouvez également télécharger le flyer ci-joint :

Please find attached the flyer for a CISM school entitled

Electro- and magneto-mechanics of soft solids: experiments, modeling and instabilities

that will take place on

June 8-12, 2010 at Udine, Italy.

As organizers of this prestigious School, it is our pleasure to invite you to subscribe by the CISM Secretariat not later than

April, 8th, 2020.

The School is addressed to doctoral students, post-docs and early career researchers with interest in active soft materials. The course is designed to give an integrated experimental, numerical and theoretical viewpoint on such novel material systems as well as possible future research directions in this field.

For more information see the attached flyer and visit the CISM website: http://www.cism.it/courses/

And more specifically: http://www.cism.it/courses/C2005

The organizers

Kostas Danas (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Oscar Lopez-Pamies (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)