Dear Colleagues,

We are very happy to announce the Summer School Active Matter and Complex
Media, to take place on September 1st to 11th , 2020 at Cargèse, France.


The summer school will bring together scientists from the various disciplines involved in research on active matter. Topics include:

Swimming and motility of micro-organisms
Collective dynamics of micro-swimmers and active colloids
Cell crawling and collective cell migration
Amoeboid swimming
Active nematics
Active particles in complex and crowded media

The conference will include invited and contributed talks as well as posters.

You can find more information on the conference website:
https://www-liphy.ujf-grenoble.fr/cargese2020

Deadline for application : 1st of May 2020

Best regards,

Salima Rafaï
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LIPhy)
CNRS et Université de Grenoble Alpes

ICTAM à Milan du 23 au 28 Aout (http://www.ictam2020.org).

Une session granulaire: « FS08 Granular Materials and Flows » organisée par Pascale Aussilous (IUSTI, Marseille)  et Diego Berzi (Politecnico, Milan)

Date limite de soumission des abstracts: 10 Janvier 2020.

Cours avancés: CISM Advanced Course « Physics of Granular Suspensions: Micro-Mechanics of Geophysical Flows »  du 15 au 19 Juin 2020 à Udine (Italie)
https://www.cism.it/en/activities/courses/C2007/.

Organisateurs:  Marco Mazzuoli (Marco.Mazzuoli@unige.it) and Laurent Lacaze (laurent.lacaze@imft.fr)
Intervenants:
Pascale Aussillous – Aix Marseille Université, France
Sivaramakrishnan Balachandar – University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Julien Chauchat – LEGI, Domaine Universitaire, Grenoble, France
Claudio di Prisco –  Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Laurent Lacaze – IMFT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Marco Mazzuoli – University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Date limite d’inscription: 15 Avril 2020

As you probably know, the 25th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2020) will be held in Milano, Italy, August 23-28, 2020. 

As usual, the Congress Committee has chosen a selection of topics, covering the broad field of Mechanics, to be the subjects of Thematic Sessions.

We have been asked to co-chair the Thematic Session SM05 on Fracture Mechanics, and it is thus our pleasant duty to invite you to submit a paper.Your submission, prepared according to the instructions given on the website https://www.ictam2020.org/ should reach the Congress Office no later than 10 January, 2020. 

Yours sincerely,
Veronique LAZARUS (Professor of Solid Mechanics, ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
Chad M. LANDIS (Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin)

Journées Matières Condensées  2020 à Rennes du 24 au 28 Août 2020

https://jmc17.sciencesconf.org/

Deux mini-colloques soutenus par le GDR Mephy:
MMM11. Milieux Granulaires : du micro au macro, du grain aux écoulements naturels et industriels
Organisateurs : Sylvain Courrech du Pont (MSC, Paris), Renaud Delannay (IPR, Rennes), Umberto D’Ortona (M2P2, Marseille), Philippe Gondret (FAST, Orsay), Patrick Richard (IFFSTAR, Nantes), Alexandre Valance (IPR, Rennes)             

MMM12. Frottement solide : des échelles microscopiques à la dynamique macroscopique

Organisateurs: Axelle AMON (IPR, Rennes), Elsa BAYART (ENS Lyon), Julien SCHEIBERT (LTDS, CNRS / Ecole Centrale de Lyon)

Dates à retenir:
15 février début de la soumission des abstracts pour présentation et posters
15 Avril : date limite de soumission

Dear colleagues,
The deadline for submitting your abstract to the Thematic Session on « Low-Re-number flows and Suspensions » at the ICTAM 2020 conference (Milano, August 23-28, 2020) is now approaching quickly!
The abstract submission website is open and will close on January 10th, 2020 (https://www.ictam2020.org/abstract-submission) 
This Thematic Session will bring together experts from our community to present their most recent advances on the motion of viscous fluids at small scales around a variety of topics, including micro-swimmers, active matter, suspensions, rheology, confined flows, fluid-structure interactions, …
As chairs of this exciting Thematic Session, we warmly invite you to submit your contributions and pass along the information to your group and colleagues. 
We hope to see you in Milano next August,
Best regards,Sebastien MichelinPeichun Amy Tsai 

Dear Colleagues,

Together with Irene Beyerlein, Peter Derlet, and Peter Ispanovity I am organizing a symposium on Local and Global Fluctuations in Plasticity for the MRS Spring meeting held in Phoenix between April 13th and 17th in 2020 (https://www.mrs.org/spring2020) – now gratefully announcing sponsorship from Bruker Nanosurfaces.

Registration is open until October 31st!

In this symposium, we seek to discuss the mechanisms for strain localization and intermittent deformation across all length and time-scales of metals or condensed matter in general. We also welcome topics that focus on the evolution of defect populations and how this dictates the macroscopic behavior. The aim of this symposium is to bring together experts with different backgrounds, including experiments, characterization, theory, and modeling. We are very pleased to have secured a diverse list of excellent invited speakers. Details of this symposium are summarized in the flyer at the link below:

https://blog.espci.fr/mephy/files/2019/10/CT06-MRS-20206.pdf

We would very much like to welcome you and your group members as participants of our symposium.

We hope to see many of you in Phoenix next spring.

Cheers, Robert, Irene, Peter and Peter