Les Houches Summer School on « Active Matter and Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics », to be held in the French Alps, from August 27 until September 21 this year.

For this school, we have gathered both experts from the subfields that make up the Active Matter community (statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics, soft matter, theory & experiments, simulators) and leading experts in the surrounding field of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, to provide world-class training in the methods that are currently used in and around active matter. The purpose of this school is thus to provide the audience both with a solid training in all the basic methods of non-equilibrium physics and to expose them to the recent trends in the Active Matter field in a pedagogical way.

The full cost per participant is 1800€. It covers housing, meals and the book of lecture notes. The deadline for applications is April 1st, 2018. Answers to applicants will be sent by the 1st of June. More details can be found on the school website:

http://actimat.msc.univ-paris-diderot.fr/

The list of lecturers and seminar speakers can be found below

Gerhard Gompper, Cristina Marchetti, Julien Tailleur, Julia Yeomans
Long lectures:

• M. Cates Active Field Theories
• E. Dufresne  Experimental Approaches to Active Systems
• D. Frenkel  Modeling of the Microscopic Origins of Active Transport
• E. Frey  Self-Organization of Protein Patterns
• R. Golestanian  Phoretic Active Matter
• J.-F. Joanny  Biological tissues as active materials
• M. Kardar  Fluctuation forces in non-equilibrium systems
• J. Kurchan  Glassy dynamics in and out of Active Matter (I)
• L. Berthier  Glassy dynamics in and out of Active Matter (II)
• M. Shelley Fluid dynamics of swimming & active particles, from one to many

Seminar speakers

• A. Baskaran  Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of model active matter systems
• C. Bechinger Active Brownian Motion in Complex Fluids; Nanotribology of Driven Colloidal Monolayers
• H. Chate  Dry, aligning, dilute, active matter (DADAM)
• L. Cugliandolo  Effective temperatures in active matter
• O. Dauchot  Model Experiments of Active Matter : at the interface between living organisms and theoretical models
• S. Fielding Complex flows of complex fluids
• Y. Kafri  Statistical forces in active matter
• B. Ladoux  Mechanobiology of collective cell behaviours
• F. Sagues  Features of interfaced and confined experimental active nematics
• J. Toner  Why walking is easier than pointing: Hydrodynamics of Active Matter

Rappel : soumission des résumés pour les posters/exposés courts et/ou pour la soumission des articles pour les comptes-rendus.

Nous remercions tous ceux qui ont déjà soumis un résumé. Pour ceux qui ne l’ont pas fait, la date limite est le 26 février 2018 inclus.

RENCONTRE DU NON-LINÉAIRE (RNL 2018)
du 27 au 29 mars 2018 à Paris, Université Paris-Diderot

La Rencontre du Non-Linéaire rassemble tous les ans l’essentiel de la communauté francophone travaillant sur la dynamique non linéaire (hydrodynamique, optique, plasmas, mécanique, mathématiques appliquées, physico-chimie, biophysique, …).

La 21e Rencontre du Non Linéaire 2018 aura lieu les 27, 28 et 29 mars 2018 à l’Université Paris Diderot, à l’amphithéâtre Buffon, 15 rue Hélène Brion, Paris 13e.

Cette année, les orateurs invités seront :

• Christophe Clanet (LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique) “Physics in modern Olympic Games”
• Keith Moffatt (DAMTP, Cambridge, UK) “The Navier-Stokes Singularity Problem« 
• Salima Rafaï (LIPHY, CNRS, Grenoble) “Du plancton comme modèle de particule active?”
• Agnese Seminara (INPHYNI, CNRS, Nice) “Fungal spore discharge and dispersal in the atmosphere”

Cette année, le mini-colloque aura comme thème “Non-linéarité et tremblements de terre”.

http://nonlineaire.univ-lille1.fr/SNL/MiniColloque/2018/

Calendrier et renseignements pratiques :
* 26 février 2018 : date limite de soumission des articles pour les comptes-rendus
* 28 février 2018 : date limite de soumission des résumés pour les posters/exposés courts
* 27, 28 et 29 mars 2018 : RNL 2018

* Vous êtes tous conviés à participer à cette manifestation et à présenter une communication.
* L’inscription est gratuite et recommandée pour faciliter le travail des organisateurs. Elle est exigée pour présenter une communication.
* Pour plus d’informations et inscription : http://nonlineaire.univ-lille1.fr/SNL/

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Le Comité d’Organisation :

E. Falcon, M. Lefranc, F. Pétrélis et C.-T. Pham

Le Comité Scientifique :

S. Barland, J. Barré, E. Falcon, M.-C. Firpo, D. Gérard-Varet, M. Haragus, X. Jia, P. Marmottant, F. Pétrélis, C.-T. Pham, B. Roman, V. Vidal

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a small informal workshop at the ENS in Paris, at the end of October, on the analogy between the yielding transition of amorphous materials under load and the depinning transition of elastic objects driven in a quenched disordered landscape. It will take place from Monday October 22 till Wednesday October 24, 2018. Please check the following website for more details:
https://sites.google.com/site/yieldingworkshop2018/

The workshop will consist in six review talks (1h each), with a lot of time devoted to informal discussions. We thus expect fruitful exchanges on the topics related to the connection between the depinning and the yielding phenomena.

Hoping to see you on this occasion in Paris,
Best regards,

Elisabeth Agoritsas and Francesco Zamponi

PS. This workshop is a follow up to the workshop on yielding that we organized in 2017. Information on the previous workshop, and the slides of the speakers, can be found here    https://sites.google.com/site/yieldingworkshop/

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Elisabeth Agoritsas – Postdoc

Email : elisabeth.agoritsas@lpt.ens.fr

Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (LPT-ENS),
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris,
Rue Lhomond 24
75005 Paris, France

Simons collaboration: https://scglass.uchicago.edu

Subject: Update- International Conference on Nonlinear Localization in Lattices (NLL -2018) , Spetses Island-18-22 June 2018
To:

Dear Colleagues

With this message we are pleased to announce the organization of the International Conference « Nonlinear Localization in Lattices » that will take place in the island of Spetses in Greece during 18-22 June 2018.

The conference marks the 30-year anniversary of the pioneering paper of Sievers and Takeno of 1988 that started an intense theoretical and experimental activity in Intrinsic Localized Modes or Discrete Breathers in nonlinear lattice systems. The intention is to both celebrate the glorious past of intrinsic localization and look into the present and future of nonlinear and complex phenomena in extended systems and their applications.

In addition to covering topics related to classical and quantum nonlinear localization, such as statistical and dynamical properties, thermalization of nonlinear lattices, Fermi-Pasta-Ulam dynamics, applications of nonlinear localization and related phenomena in materials, biological systems, optical systems and metamaterials, many body effects, self-organization in nonlinear lattices and other relevant topics we also intend to link the area with other growing fields. Specifically we plan to have focused sessions on non-Hermitian phenomena wave phenomena and applications in optical and materials science. Additionally, due to the growing interest in machine learning applications in physics we will interface with recent work in the area that is in contact with the general theme of the meeting. We welcome contributions from all these areas and fields.

The conference webpage is

https://qcn.physics.uoc.gr/nll2018/

. Please follow the updated information and plan early your trip to Greece since the summer of 2018 is expected to be a busy year for tourism in Greece.
Spetses is a small, quaint island island off the coast of Peloponnese and off the main tourist attraction loop that may be reached either from the port of Athens by fast boats or by land and a short sea crossing.
The conference will take place in the Anrgyreios-Korgialeneios School of Spetses (AKSS) with comfortable facilities in a unique location next to the sea and close to the main island town.

Please register now through the conference web page and arrange for your trip.There is accommodation in the premises or in nearby hotels. Please make reservations through our web page and/or contact us if you have questions or need assistance.
It is best if you do your reservation before March 9, 2018, especially if you are planning to stay in the premises of AKSS.

Interested scientists are invited to apply by completing the online NLL registration form, which is available at: http://qcn.physics.uoc.gr/nll2018/content/registration, until 30/03/2018.

Please note that we anticipate having some funding to be used towards covering local expenses of students & young scientists.

Our email database is being continuously updated. Please inform us if you wish to be added (if you did not received the announcement directly) or wish to be removed from the list.
Looking forward to seeing you in Spetses for a celebration of 30 years of nonlinear localization in discrete systems!

On behalf of the International Organizing Committee

G. Tsironis

International Organizing Committee:
David Campbell, Sergej Flach, Yuri Kivshar, Konstantinos Makris, George Tsironis, Alexey Ustinov

For more information on the organization of the Conference please communicate with:

Mrs Froso Kasotaki

CCQCN Operations Specialist
Department of Physics, Univ. Crete,
Voutes Campus,
Heraklion 71003, Greece
Tel 30-2810 394262
FAX 30-2810 394301
Email: kasotaki@physics.uoc.gr