Dear colleagues,

As you may know, the 55^th Society of Engineering Science (SES) Annual Technical Meeting will take place from October 12 to 14, 2018, in Madrid, Spain.

At the invitation of the organizers, we are putting together the Mini-Symposium 4.4 on the “Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials” (see http://www.ses2018.org/?s=track-symposia). We would like to invite you (or one of your students or collaborators) to participate in our mini-symposium.

The deadline for abstract submission (http://www.ses2018.org/?s=abstract-submission) is April 15, 2018.

For more information, please visit the conference website: http://www.ses2018.org

We hope that you can accept this invitation and look forward to seeing you in Madrid,

Mini-Symposium Scope:

The study of soft materials continues to drive our community into new exciting directions. This mini-symposium will address recent experimental, theoretical, and computational advances in the mechanics and physics of solids capable of undergoing large deformations in response to mechanical, electromagnetic, chemical, and thermal stimuli. Topics of particular interest include:

• Electroactive and magnetoactive elastomers
• Gels
• Shape-memory polymers
• Liquid crystal elastomers
• Multi-scale computational modelling of soft active solids
• Instabilities in soft active solids with and without microstructure
• Fracture and healing of elastomers and gels

With best regards

Oscar Lopez-Pamies (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Kostas Danas (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France)

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The 2018 conference of the Society of Engineering Sciences (http://www.ses2018.org/)   will be October 10-12, 2018 in Madrid.  We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to symposium 4.6 – Mechano-chemistry active materials.  Abstract submission opens on February, 1 2018 and closes on April 2, 2018.

This symposium brings researchers from a variety of backgrounds together for an exchange of ideas related to theory, computation, and experimentation in the area of mechano-chemistry active materials. Hoping to support mixing of ideas as well as setting new collaborations, we are looking forward to getting contributions including, but not limited to, following topics:

• Chemically actuated biological tissues
• Mimicking natural actuators by chemistry
• Degradation and aging effects in ionic membranes
• Gels
• 4D printed materials
• Coupled mechano-chemical oscillators
• Mechanics and shape control of thin chemically activated structures
• Mechanics and chemistry interplay in shooting mechanisms
• Swelling behavior of fibered gels
• Shape-morphing systems
• Hydrogel composites

Organizers:

S.A. Chester (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Nardinocchi (Sapienza Università di Roma)

ICAR 2018 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

10th International Conference on Aeolian Research, 25-29 June 2018,
Bordeaux, France.

The call for abstracts is now open until the 5th of March 2018. Please
submit your abstract following
colloque.inra.fr/icar2018/Submission
prepared with the available template.

On this web page, you will be asked to select the session in which your
work fits best, the type of presentation you would like to get (oral
presentation or poster – NB: the conveners will proceed to abstract
selection as the number of time slots for orals is limited), the name of
the presenting person and those of all co-authors. You will be asked to
upload your abstract as a pdf file, which includes both text and figure.

As a reminder, the conference will include the following sessions:

1. Dunes and bedforms
conveners: M. Baddock, R. Ewing, L. Ping

2. Dust dynamics and processes
conveners: M. Klose, J.-B. Stuut

3. Modelling and numerical simulations
conveners: J. Nield, A. Valance

4. Paleo-environments
conveners: J. Roskin, A. Stone

5. Planetary aeolian research
conveners: J. Radebaugh, S. Silvestro

6. Experiments and instrumentation
conveners: M. Louge, G. Wiggs

7. Aerodynamics and sediment transport
conveners: C. McKenna-Neuman, H. Yizhaq

8. Coastal environments
conveners: P. Hesp, D. Jackson

9. Anthropogenic interactions
conveners: J. Leys, G. Sterk

10. Interaction with vegetation
conveners: J. Gillies, G. Okin

Recall of important dates:

10th of January 2018: open call for abstracts.
05th of March 2018: Deadline for abstract submission.
26th of March 2018: Talk/poster selection and registration opens.
11th of June 2018: Registration closes.
25th of June 2018: ICAR 2018 begins!

Field trips:
– A mid-conference trip to the Dune of Pilat will be organised for all
attendees on the 27th of June.
– Optional pre and post meeting excursions will be organised by the Polish
Geomorphological Association.

Please visit our website for more details and news: colloque.inra.fr/icar2018

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an e-mail to icar2018@inra.fr

The organising committee
Philippe Claudin, CNRS, Paris
Christel Bouet, IRD, Bondy
Sylvain Dupont, INRA, Bordeaux
Béatrice Marticorena, CNRS, Créteil
Clément Narteau, UPD, Paris