PHASME 2016 Physics and Mechanics of Soft Complex Materials
August 07, 2016 – August 19, 2016
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Location
Cargèse, France
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https://sites.google.com/site/phasme2016/
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Organizers
Matteo Ciccotti (ESPCI, I2CAM, Chair)
Mark Robbins (Johns Hopkins, I2CAM)
Thomas Witten (University of Chicago, I2CAM)
Registration Form (Deadline: May 31, 2016)
Overview
The aim of the international Summer School on « Physics and Mechanics of Soft Complex Materials» is to provide PhD students and researchers with a new wider point of view in research by a series of lectures given by the best international specialists in the emerging domains at the interface between mechanics and physics: material failure, nonlinear mechanics and instabilities, complex and network multiscale materials. Together with the recent development of enhanced experimental techniques, with the large strain rheology, with the extreme advances in simulations at both atomistic and continuum length scales, the modeling of the properties of soft complex materials by methods of physical mechanics has lead to huge advances in the understanding of the relationship between their microstructures and their complex mechanical properties, as well as in the development of new materials with improved mechanical properties and functionalities, such as tough hydrogels, artificial tissues, soft robots, artificial muscles or transparent ionically conducting materials, metamaterials.
The International Summer School on «Physics and Mechanics of Soft Complex Materials»aims at the formation of students and researchers with a double culture in physics and mechanics, which are needed in these emerging interdisciplinary fields. An engineer with training in formal mechanics, physicochemistry of materials and the ability to approach complex problems through a simple formalism may then focus on the key points and propose innovative solutions.
Main topics
• Continuum mechanics
• Statistical physics for disordered materials
• Numerical methods
• Experimental methods
• Fracture and damage mechanics
• Adhesion and friction
• Extreme mechanics
• Slender media and origami
• Metamaterials
• Architectured and actuated materials
• Glasses and nonequilibrium behavior
• Polymers
• Biomaterials
• Applications