GDR MePhy

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to announce that the second edition of Graphyz will be held on October 16-19 2022 at the Saline Royale d’Arc-et-Senans (France). 
https://project.inria.fr/graphyz2/

The aim of Graphyz is to bring together the Computer graphics and Physics/Mechanics communities: various systems such as fluid flows, hair and fabrics, folds and crumpled sheets, bubbles and foams, programmable materials, snow avalanches, etc. are studied using different approaches: in graphics, the focus is primarily on developing numerical models that are visually convincing, efficient and controllable so as to serve narrative and artistic goals, while physics/mechanics is all about developing predictive mathematical models and confronting them to real experiments. We believe that there is much to learn and to gain from the interaction of these communities which have been expanding since the very exciting first edition of Graphyz in 2019 (https://project.inria.fr/graphyz/).

Important dates

• Registration and submission of optional oral presentations: from 20th June 2022R
• Registration deadline: 16th September 2022
• Workshop: 16th October-19th October 2022

The registration will open on June 20th. It is free and includes on-site accommodation. The number of participants is however limited and the available seats are expected to fill up quickly. If you plan to submit an oral presentation (new for this second edition, see below), have your title ready before you register, ideally on June 20th.
The workshop will start on Sunday October 16th before dinner and end on Wednesday October 19th after lunch. Participants are required to be present during the entire period. The schedule will include comfortable time slots for informal discussions.

Keynote Sessions (to be presented in duets, except for the opening) 

• Opening: Ken Museth (Nvidia)
• Knitted and Woven Fabric: Steve Marschner (Cornell University) & Frédéric Léchenault (ENS Paris)
• Computational Fluids: Mathieu Desbrun (Inria Saclay – École Polytechnique)) & Stéphane Popinet (CNRS – Sorbonne Université)
• Bubbles and Foam: Chris Wojtan (IST Austria) & Isabelle Cantat (Université de Rennes)
• Folds: Mélina Skouras (Inria Grenoble – Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann) & Hillel Aharoni (Weizmann Institute of Science)
• Programmable Materials: Sylvain Lefebvre (Inria Nancy) & Corentin Coulais (University of Amsterdam)  
• Crowds: Julien Pettré (Inria Rennes) & Cécile Appert-Rolland (CNRS – Orsay)  
• Validation of physical models: Florence Bertails-Descoubes (Inria Grenoble) & Sébastien Neukirch (CNRS – Sorbonne Université)

Contributed oral presentations

Graphyz2 will also include sessions with contributed oral presentations. The goal is to foster discussions and collaborations by showing ongoing work of interest to both communities.
Upon registration, you will be given the option to submit a title and a few lines of abstract. Abstracts will be selected based on their interest to a mixed (computer graphics and physics/mechanics) audience. There is no obligation for the presenter to have a record of published work at the intersection of these two fields. Student presentations are warmly encouraged.
Particular attention will be given to the following themes on which La Saline is committed on the long term:

• medical applications
• musical applications (motion and gestures capture)
• biodiversity, sustainable development & landscapes
• architectural monuments & digitization

Submissions on topics not included in this are welcome as well, such as

• computational architecture, structural mechanics
• slender bodies, shells, cloth simulation
• granular materials
• biological applications (plants, locomotion)
• sport
• …

Looking forward to seeing you soon at the workshop!

With kind regards,

 Basile Audoly (CNRS – École Polytechnique)   Florence Bertails-Descoubes (Inria – LJK)     Benoît Roman (CNRS – ESPCI)     Mélina Skouras (Inria – LJK)

We are glad to announce that registration and abstract submission to he XXth International Plant Biomechanics Conference are now open at https://plantbiomech.sciencesconf.org/. Please submit before the end of April to be considered for a talk or for a poster with a flash talk. Reduced registration fees are offered until the end of April.

With best regards,

Arezki Boudaoud, Olivier Hamant, Gwyneth Ingram, and Sara Puijalon

Notes:

– Registration and abstract submission are independent in the system.

– Please forward this information to those potentially interested.

Dear colleagues,

We would like to bring to your attention the summer school « Disorder in Complex Systems « , to be held at Institute Pascal of Paris-Saclay University (France), from June 7 to June 17 2022. 

The website has been updated and is available at

https://www.institut-pascal.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/scientific-programs/disorder-complex-systems [main page]

https://indico.ijclab.in2p3.fr/event/7771/ [detailed information]

This intense two-week school is intended for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professionals seeking to overcome traditional disciplinary boundaries in the fields relevant to the physics of complex systems. The school covers basic concepts, tools, and current topics relevant to the problem of disorder in complex systems. These include glassy systems, nonlinear dynamics, scaling, soft matter, and other topical areas or case studies.

Lectures are taught by the faculty of Paris-Saclay and guest leading educators and scholars from other renowned institutions. Formal classes and seminars, are complemented by discussions and activities hosted by the laboratories of the University.

An internship program following the 2-week school is also offered to a smaller subset of selected participants.

Tuition for the program for the selected academic participants is free of charge and it covers participation, course materials, on-site accommodation for the non-Francilian, and lunch meals.

Application is now open and should be posted before April 15 2022 via the website according to the instructions provided:

https://indico.ijclab.in2p3.fr/event/7771/registrations/485/

Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested.

Best wishes,

The organizing committee: Gianguido Baldinozzi, Daniel Bonamy, Anne Davaille, Patrick Guénoun, Alberto Rosso, Pierfrancesco Urbani and Kees Van der Beek