GDR MePhy

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to invite you to participate and submit an abstract to the 6th Southern Workshop on Granular Materials (SWGM6). The conference will be held in Puerto Varas, on December 3-6, 2018. The SWGM6 will comprise a broad range of granular-system subjects providing an up-to-date view of the field in topics such as non-local rheology in granular flow, discharge flows, soft and non-spherical particles, shear-thickening suspensions, active macroscopic particles, impact on granular beds, propulsion in granular media, invasion phenomena, among others.
The SWGM6 will take place in the Hotel Cabañas del Lago at the city of Puerto Varas on the shores of Lake Llanquihue. Puerto Varas is famous for its architecture that uniquely combines its German heritage with a breathtaking landscape. The city is surrounded by beautiful sites, such as the All Saints Lake, the Petrohué Falls, the Osorno Volcano, Puerto Montt and Chiloe island.

For more information about the conference, we kindly ask you to visit our website at:
http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~granular2018/granular18/Home.html
For details about Puerto Varas, we suggest you to visit the website of VisitChile: http://www.visitchile.com/en/tourist guides/puerto-varas/

LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS:
– Felipe Pacheco Vázquez, Institute of Physics in Puebla
– Hiroaki Katsuragi, Nagoya University
– Scott Waitukaitis, Universiteit Leiden
– Xiang Cheng, University of Minnesota
– Daniel Goldman, Georgia Tech
– Bruno Andreotti, ESPCI (PMMH)
– Luis Pugnaloni, Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Facultad Regional de la Plata
– Ken Kamrin, Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT (TBC)
– Romain Mari, Université Grenoble Alpes (TBC)
– Olivier Dauchot, ESPCI (TBC)

IMPORTANT DATES:
– Abstract submission deadline: June 1st, 2018
– Registration fee (accommodation and meals included): 500 USD (regular) / 800 USD (late)
– Abstract notification: July 30th, 2018
– Early registration: until Sep 15th, 2018
– Late registration: until Nov 1st, 2018

We look forward to having you at the SWGM6.

Sincerely yours,
Gustavo Castillo, Leonardo Gordillo & Germán Varas
(On behalf of the organizing committee)

Dear colleagues,
Please find attached the announcement of our mini-colloquium « Active Fluids and Crowd Motions » as part of the Days of Condensed Matter to be held in Grenoble from August 27 to 31. If you want to make a communication, you can already upload your abstract:

Abstract Submission: Choose MMH3 Active Fluids and Crowd Motions

You can also register on the same site.

The duration of the mini-symposium will be half a day during which we will be able to discuss the concepts and the tools associated with the two topics that we wish to bring together. The papers will be in English to facilitate the discussions. The duration of the communication will be determined according to the number of participants to the mini-symposium.

If our budget allows it, we will be able to financially help PhD students who request it within the limits of our possibilities.

Best regards,

Salima Rafaï (Liphy, Grenoble), Philippe Peyla (Liphy, Grenoble), Bertrand Maury (LMO, Orsay) and Sylvain Faure (LMO, Orsay)

We thank our sponsor: Fed3G

Dear Colleague,

The organization of the Solvay Workshop: « Mechanics of Slender Structures in Physics, Biology and Engineering: From failure to functionality » (27-29 August, 2018, ULB, Brussels, Belgium), is going well and we are excited by the substantial number of good quality submissions that we have received.

However, following many requests, we are pleased to extend the deadline for abstract submission to: April 15, 2018.

Please note that, due to organizational reasons, further extension of the deadline will not be possible.

We look forward welcoming you in Brussels in August 2018.

The scientific and organizing committee:
F. Brau, P. Damman, N. De Temmerman, Y. Forterre, P. Reis, D. Reynaerts, D. Terwagne

MECHANICS OF SLENDER STRUCTURES IN PHYSICS, BIOLOGY, AND ENGINEERING:
FROM FAILURE TO FUNCTIONALITY
SOLVAY WORKSHOP 27-29 AUGUST 2018 (ULB, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM)
SCOPE:

During the past decade, mechanical instabilities were exploited to design new classes of functional mechanisms making use of the geometrically nonlinear behavior of their post-buckling regimes. Using flexible structures is nowadays considered as a promising route to create devices with novel modes of functionality or metamaterials with tailored properties such as foldable 3D objects obtained from 2D sheets by combined origami and Kirigami, flexible/stretchable electronics, bioelectronics or soft actuators for robotic applications, etc. This shift in thinking leads also to new developments in biology, where slender and flexible structures are ubiquitous, such as a better understanding of the morphogenesis of organs, the motion and the shape of plants or the locomotion of aquatic animals.

The ambition of this meeting is to bring together internationally acclaimed experts as well as young researchers in mechanics, biomechanics, biolocomotion, material science and architecture to address the current scientific challenges in these various fields. The workshop will serve as a platform to stimulate discussions, to start long-term scientific collaborations and to promote progress at the porous boundaries between these research domains.

TOPICS:

Ø Elastic Instabilities of Slender Objects

Ø Foldable Structures/Origami/Kirigami

Ø Elasto-capillarity/Fluid-Structure Interaction

Ø Biomechanics

Ø Bio-Inspired Robotics/Stretchable Electronics

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

JOSÉ BICO (ESPCI, France) ⦿ PIERRE-THOMAS BRUN (Princeton, USA) ⦿ ITAI COHEN (Cornell, USA) ⦿ BENNY DAVIDOVITCH (UMass, USA) ⦿ VINCENT DÉMERY (ESPCI, France) ⦿ ALAIN GORIELY (Oxford, UK) ⦿ FUMIYA IIDA (Cambridge, UK) ⦿ ELLEN KUHL (Stanford, USA) ⦿ STÉPHANIE LACOUR (EPFL, Switzerland) ⦿ JULIAN LIENHARD (str-ucture.com) ⦿ SÉBASTIEN NEUKIRCH (Institut d’Alembert, France) ⦿ DOMINIQUE PEYSSON (ENSAD, France) ⦿ DRAGA PIHLER-PUZOVIC (Manchester, UK) ⦿ THOMAS SALEZ (Bordeaux, France) ⦿ THOMAS SPECK (Freiburg, Germany) ⦿ BRAM VANDERBORGHT (VUB, Belgium) ⦿ DOMINIC VELLA (Oxford, UK).

APPLICATIONS AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

Applications for contributed talks and posters are welcome. A one-page abstract of the proposed contribution should be sent to Fabian Brau (email: fabian.brau@ulb.ac.be).
Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2018.

Attendance is free of charge but registration via the website is required.
Registration deadline: August 1, 2018.

For more information about the workshop (venue, hotels, etc.), please visit the website: http://www.solvayinstitutes.be/event/workshop/mechanics_2018/mechanics_2018.html
We look forward welcoming you in Brussels in August 2018.

THE SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
F. Brau, P. Damman, N. De Temmerman, Y. Forterre, P. Reis, D. Reynaerts, D. Terwagne

Chers Collègues,

Nous vous informons de la tenue de la XXIIe édition de l’école d’été thématique “ AUX RENCONTRES DE PEYRESQ” qui se déroulera du 28 mai au 1 juin 2018.

Au programme: ‘Ondes Nonlinéaires”

Mécanique nonlinéaire: structures et dynamiques

Cours 1 Instabilités dans les ondes

F. Charru (IMFT, Toulouse)

Cours 2 Emergence de structures en turbulence optique

A. Picozzi (ICB, Dijon)

Cours 3 Optical Cloaking

P. Genevet (CRHEA, Nice)

Cours 4 Vibrations de bulle et acoustique en milieux complexes

V. Leroy (MSC, Paris)

Cours 5 Ondes nonlinéaires et applications

G. Theocharis (LAUM, Le Mans)

Cette école s’adresse aux étudiants en thèse, aux chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs jeunes ou plus expérimentés, intéressés par la dynamique non linéaire et ses nombreuses applications (mécanique, biophysique, géophysique, chimie physique, physique statistique, ondes, dynamique des fluides etc…).

Les thésards et post-doctorants auront la possibilité de faire un court exposé pour présenter leur travail.

Informations et inscriptions: http://peyresq-unice.sciencesconf.org

Des frais d’inscription de 200 euros pour les non permanents et de 250 euros pour les permanents seront demandés. Ils couvrent le voyage aller-retour depuis Nice, le logement et tous les repas.

Attention, le nombre de places étant limité, les dates d’inscription seront considérées.

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Financements : Fédération W. Döblin, le Labex MEC et l’Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.
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Comité d’organisation: Médéric ARGENTINA (InPhyNi, Nice), Xavier NOBLIN (InPhyNi, Nice), Alain POCHEAU (IRPHE, Marseille).

Pour le comité d’organisation,

Médéric Argentina,

Dear Colleagues,

This is an announcement for the international conference in honour of Pr. Elisabeth Charlaix, organized jointly by the French CNRS Research Network (GDR) on Liquids at Interfaces and the LOMA laboratory in Bordeaux, France. It will take place at the University of Bordeaux, from October 22th to October 25th 2018. In addition to talks by invited speakers (list below), this meeting will give everyone the opportunity to contribute through oral presentations or poster sessions — and will include prices for the best contributions.

The website of the event is: https://lai2018.sciencesconf.org. Please share it with colleagues and students.

Registration is open until June 1st and is effective only after payment. Do not forget to submit your abstract too ! In case of any problem, please send an e-mail to: sophie.grandet@u-bordeaux.fr. The 120€/600€ price for academia/industry includes the book of abstracts, conference fees, coffee breaks, welcome reception, gala dinner, and meals (lunches and dinners). Free accommodations, close to the conference site, are also available on the « first-come first-served » basis.

Warm regards,

The organizers

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Invited speakers

Denis Bartolo (ENS Lyon, France)
Clemens Bechinger (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Lydéric Bocquet (ENS Paris, France)
Radha Boya (Manchester University, UK)
Jérôme Crassous (Institute of Physics of Rennes, France)
Jacob Israelachvili (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
Jean-François Joanny (ESPCI Paris, France)
Hamid Kellay (University of Bordeaux, France)
Detlef Lohse (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Patricia McGuiggan (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
Frieder Mugele (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Roland Netz (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Susan Perkin (University of Oxford, UK)
David Pine (New York University, USA)
David Quéré (ESPCI Paris, France)

+ Public outreach conference by Frédéric Restagno (Paris Saclay University, France)