Hello Everyone,

We are excited to host the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF) this October 26-28th at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. SCF provides a holistic home for new research and developments in the interdisciplinary areas of digital manufacturing and computational design. The meeting provides a venue to discuss cutting-edge results and build cross-domain collaborations and connections. We are excited to bring this venue to the west coast for the first time!

Attendees and presenters have backgrounds in architectural design, computer science, mechanical engineering, human-computer interaction, biology, materials science, robotics, and math. The goal of SCF is to advance the state-of-the-art in computational fabrication via the exchange of new research, discussions, and collaborations and to become the pre-eminent venue for such activities in the burgeoning field of Computational Design and Fabrication.

Please join us! Register here: https://scf.acm.org/2022

Early Bird Closes on Oct 1st.

We hope to see you there,

Nadya Peek, Jeff Lipton, and Adriana Schulz
— 
Assistant Professor 
University of Washington 
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~adriana/

The Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (PCTS) is hosting a workshop on the physics of morphing matter.

Registration is free but required:
https://pcts.princeton.edu/events/2022/physics-morphing-matter

Organizers: PT Brun, Andrej Košmrlj, Glaucio Paulino, Emily Davidson, Princeton University

Le GDR MecaWave organise un workshop le 24-25 novembre sur la fragmentation dynamique, au Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique à Marseille. 

Le fichier joint décrit plus en détail l’objectif de ce workshop, le nom des orateurs et les détails pratiques. Pour vous inscrire, merci d’envoyer un mail aux organisateurs.

Les organisateurs (Nicolas Favrie, Bruno Lombard, Joël Marthelot)

This Symposium on Acoustic Metamaterials is mainly dedicated to Ph.D. students andEarly Career Investigators  (i.e. researcher whose career spun less than 8 years since the date of the PhD) and aims at sharing new advances and breakthroughs as well as fostering the community of young researchers in the field of acoustic metamaterials. The third SAM will be organised around 6 different sessions comprising 20 min talks and plenary lectures. 

Details: https://sam-2022.sciencesconf.org

The goal of this 2-day workshop is to understand the role that machine learning can play in understanding glasses from a fundamental perspective. The workshop is open to all and will take place at Collège de France (rue d’Ulm). Registration is free but mandatory (before September 30) at:

Website: https://www.cnrs.fr/en/workshop-machine-learning-glassy-dynamics

L. Berthier, G. Biroli, and G. Jung

The PLM series started 15 years ago from an interest to promote the interface between the Life and Physical Sciences in Cambridge.

This year, the conference has been divided into two parts:

• September 27 & 28 in France : organized by CENTURI, this part of the event will take place at the Palais du Pharo, in Marseille, with an online access for Cambridge participants.
• September 29 & 30 in England : organized by Cambridge University, this part of the event will take place in Cambridge, with an online access for Marseille participants.

Program and registration: https://centuri-livingsystems.org/plm16/

Pedro Reis (EPFL) and Kostas Danas (Ecole Polytechnique)

In this joint seminar, we will present the complementary expertise and recent research of our two groups at Ecole Polytechnique (France) and EPFL (Switzerland) on magnetorheological elastomers (MREs); a novel class of active materials capable of exhibiting a coupled response under external magnetic and/or mechanical stimuli.

Info and registration: eurotechtalk-3.eventbrite.be

We would like to draw your attention to the workshop Physics of microbial motility that our H2020 ITN PHYMOT organizes from November 2nd to 4th, 2022 at the ESPCI in Paris, France. This workshop aims to bring together senior scientists and students with interests ranging from marine microbiology, and environmental biology to experimental and theoretical biophysics. For further information and to register and submit an abstract, please visit the workshop website: https://etn-phymot.eu/phymot-workshop/

 Best wishes,
Anke Lindner, Eric Clement, Thomas Kiørboe, Roberto Di Leonardo, Gerrit Vliegenthart and Gerhard Gompper

The growing plant is a fascinating system involving multiple fields. Biologically, it is a multi-cellular system controlled by complex bio-chemical networks. Physically, it is an example of an « active solid » – an extended solid system, whose element (cells) are active, performing mechanical work to drive the evolving geometry. Computationally, it acts as a distributed system, processing a multitude of local inputs into a coordinated developmental response. The goal of this meeting is to provide a rare opportunity to bring together researchers from these different but complementary disciplines, and study the plant as a living, information-processing organism, which uses physical laws and biological mechanisms to alter its own shape, and negotiate its environment.

Please visit:  http://www.plant-bio-physics.org/ for relevant information

Idan Efroni, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yasmine Meroz, Tel Aviv University
Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Eran Sharon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Active matter is a prominent area of research in soft matter and biological physics: it gives us the opportunity to learn new physics (active materials are out of equilibrium), engineer new materials (e.g., « intelligent » responsive materials), and understand more about biology (e.g., cells, migratory animals, and even subcellular motor proteins are active materials). While a tremendous amount of work has focused on the physics of active matter in bulk/unconfined environments, recent work is starting to demonstrate the rich physics associated with active matter in complex environments characterized by tortuosity, confinement, and complex interactions. This Aspen Winter Conference will focus on this new direction in active matter research at the interface of soft matter physics, statistical and nonlinear physics, biology, and engineering.  

This Conference will bring together a diverse group of leading theorists and experimentalists to discuss (1) Fundamentals, (2) Collective behaviors, (3) Interactions with complex fluids, (4) Biological active matter, (5) Synthetic active matter/assemblies. Our ultimate goal is to foster new collaborations, clarify unifying/open questions for future research to address, and brainstorm new directions for the field that cut across physics, biology, materials, engineering, and other disciplines. 

The workshop will be in-person, over five days spanning January 2-6, 2023 (the last day will be a half day).  We are putting together the agenda to have extensive Q&A and discussion sessions as well as recreational breaks each day.  There will also be a welcome reception on the evening of Sunday January 1.  We are currently fundraising with the intention of being able to help offset some costs associated with meeting registration, housing, and travel. 

To register, click the « Apply now » link here; the registration deadline is at the end of the month. 

Sujit Datta, Cynthia Olson Reichhardt, Paulo Arratia and Moumita Das