PROGRAM

Monday, June 26, 2017

Time Event  
12:30 - 13:30 Buffet lunch and registration - LiPhy, ground floor  
13:30 - 13:45 Welcome - Jean-Louis Barrat / Sri Sastry  
13:45 - 15:15 Soft Matter Systems  
13:45 - 14:15 › Avalanche-like fluidization of an aging, non-Brownian particle gel - Sébastien Manneville, Université de Lyon, Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon - CNRS  
14:15 - 14:45 › Response of glasses to applied shear: Transient heterogeneities - PInaki Chaudhuri, Institute of Mathematical Sciences  
14:45 - 15:15 › Microscopic dynamics in polymer systems under tensile stress - Luca Cipelletti, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb UMR 5221 Université de Montpelleir et CNRS  
15:15 - 15:45 Break  
15:45 - 17:45 Soft Matter Systems  
16:15 - 16:45 › Suppression of the threshold of a granular solid by mechanical fluctuations - Axelle Amon, Institut de Physique de Rennes  
16:45 - 17:15 › Study of dynamical heterogeneities in aging colloidal nanoclay suspensions - Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, Raman Research Institute  
17:15 - 17:45 › Precursor to failure in a gel forming system - Raffaela Cabriolu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology  
18:45 - 20:00 Dinner - Buffet  

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Time Event  
09:30 - 12:30 Metallic glasses and plasticity at the atomic scale  
09:30 - 10:00 › Effect of local composition and of disorder on strain localization in metallic and in silicate glasses - Anne Tanguy, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Contacts et des Structures  
10:00 - 10:30 › Composition dependense of Glass forming ability in binary mixtures - Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya, Polymer Science and Engineering Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune-411008  
10:30 - 11:00 Break  
11:00 - 12:30 Biological systems  
11:00 - 11:30 › Stress propagation in nonlinear elastic materials: a connection between biopolymer gels and plasticity? - Martin Lenz, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques  
11:30 - 12:00 › Self-propelled emulsion droplets and their possible use in studying active disordered materials - Shashi Thutupalli, NCBS - Bangalore  
12:00 - 12:30 › Nonlinear rheology in a model biological tissue - Elisabeth Agoritsas, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:30 Models of yield and plasticity  
14:00 - 14:30 › A statistical physics approach for the creep dynamics in soft matter - Kirsten Martens, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique  
14:30 - 15:00 › Strain-gradient plasticity of heterogeneous amorphous solids - Anurag Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur  
15:00 - 15:30 › Localized (or delocalized) soft modes in pinned systems - Alberto Rosso, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques  
15:30 - 16:00 Break  
16:00 - 17:30 Models of yield and plasticity  
16:00 - 16:30 › Local Stability in model amorphous solids - Srikanth Sastry, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research  
16:30 - 17:00 › Mean field theory of plasticity and yielding - Francesco Zamponi, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique  
17:00 - 17:30 › The equilibrium transition underlying irreversible deformation of solids - Surajit Sengupta, TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences  
19:00 - 22:00 Conference dinner - at the Téléférique Restaurant.  

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Time Event  
09:30 - 10:30 Metallic glasses and plasticity at the atomic scale  
09:30 - 10:00 › Multiple dynamical regimes in metallic glasses at the atomic scale - Beatrice Ruta, Institut Lumiere Matiere, Lyon 1 University  
10:00 - 10:30 › Viscoelasticity and energy dissipation in glasses from the atomic scale - David Rodney, Institut Lumière Matière  
10:30 - 11:00 Break  
11:00 - 12:30 Glass transition  
11:00 - 11:30 › Intermittent Route to Glass Transition in Active Matter - Chandan Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Science  
11:30 - 12:00 › Dynamic equations of liquids in large dimensions - jorge kurchan, Laboratoirede physique statistique, Ecole Normale superieure, Paris.  
12:00 - 12:30 › Inherent stress correlations in equilibrated liquids - Anaèl Lemaître, Laboratoire Navier  
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch - -Buffet  
14:30 - 16:00 Models of yield and plasticity  
14:30 - 15:00 › Mechanical response of ultrastable glasses - Ludovic Berthier, Universite de Montpellier  
15:00 - 15:30 › Coarse-graining amorphous plasticity: from microscopic scale to mesoscopic scale - Damien Vandembroucq, Physique et mécanique des milieux hétérogenes  
15:30 - 16:00 › Cavitation and Yielding Transition in Amorphous Solids - Smarajit Karmakar, TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences  
16:00 - 18:30 Coffe break and free time for discussions  
18:30 - 20:00 Dinner - -Buffet  

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:00 Soft Matter Systems  
09:00 - 09:30 › Fluctuation of plasticity of an amorphous athermal material - Jérôme Crassous, Institut de Physique de Rennes  
09:30 - 10:00 › Effective thermodynamics for a driven atherm system with dry friction - Giacomo Gradenigo, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique  
10:00 - 10:30 Break  
10:30 - 11:30 Soft Matter Systems  
10:30 - 11:00 › Study of transient shear banding and fluidisation phenomenon in soft glassy solids - Vishwas Venkatesh, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique [Saint Martin d'Hères]  
11:00 - 11:30 › Dynamic transition and memory encoding in glass-formers under shear - Giuseppe Foffi, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides  
11:30 - 11:45 Closing - Jean-Louis Barrat /Sri Sastry  
  
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