The workshop will take place at the laboratory for interdisciplinary physics on the campus of the University Grenoble-Alpes. The program will start on Monday, June 26th after lunch (1.30pm) and end on Thursday, June 29th around noon.
PARTICIPATION
Participation is limited to the list of invited participants accepted by the Indo-French center for advanced research.
SCOPE
The investigation of plastic response in amorphous solids subjected to external stresses is of interest in a wide variety of systems, from geophysical formations related to earthquakes to biological tissue, and a wide variety of soft matter systems in between from polymeric and metallic glasses, to granular matter, to colloidal suspensions and gels. At the present time, there is a tremendous amount of activity world-wide, to bring together many theoretical approaches to the study of plastic and yielding response of amorphous solids, and in related contexts, the complex rheology of soft glassy matter, and to test the theories with newly available experimental approaches and newly available computational results. A meeting between Indian and French colleagues will be of great value in promoting advances in this area, in which both countries are playing a very active role at the international level, and to foster collaborations between researchers in the two countries.
VENUE
The workshop will take place at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Physics. The conference room is located on the second floor. Access to the laboratory is described here. On the campus map the building is labelled "PHITEM E" in the "rue de la physique" near the tram stop "Gabriel Fauré".