School on Disordered Elastic Systems

October 3-14, 2022

São Paulo, Brazil

ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP


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Disordered elastic systems are ubiquitous and encompass a rich variety of systems ranging from amorphous solids, colloidal suspensions and network glasses to dislocation systems, biopolymer fibrous networks, confluent cell tissues and even strange metals and machine learning. Their comprehensive study has not only led to a much deeper understanding of traditionally difficult problems as the glass transition; it has also extended the theoretical frontier to incorporate new frameworks such as topological mechanics, non-reciprocal phase transitions and exciting mechanical metamaterials.

The school is intended for graduate students and researchers, and  will cover well-tested and successful theoretical methods used to study disordered elastic systems (critically-coordinated lattices, scaling theories and calculations for jamming and glasses in infinite dimension), as well as more recent developments that have attracted a lot of attention in the past few years (mechanical metamaterials, machine learning and biopolymer fibrous networks). In addition to the lectures, there will be one research seminar per week, to be given by an outstanding local researcher with expertise in the subject area of the school.

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

Announcement:

Click HERE for online registration

Application deadline: July 31, 2022

Lecturers:

  • Corentin Coulais (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  • Andrea J. Liu (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Tom C. Lubensky (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Fred C. Mackintosh (Rice University, USA)
  • Xiaoming Mao (University of Michigan, USA)
  • James P. Sethna (Cornell University, USA)
  • Pierfrancesco Urbani (CNRS, France)

Seminar Speakers:

  • Márcia Barbosa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
  • Edgar Zanotto (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)

Organizers:

  • Carolina Brito (IF, UFRGS, Brazil)
  • Itai Cohen (Cornell University, USA)
  • Danilo B. Liarte (Cornell University, USA / ICTP-SAIFR & IFUSP, Brazil)

Registration

Announcement:

Click HERE for online registration

Application deadline: July 31, 2022

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Additional Information

COVID-19: See requirements for travelling to Brazil at https://www.latam.com/en_un/experience/coronavirus/government-restrictions/ To enter the IFT-UNESP building, you may be required to show a Covid vaccination certificate.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan and USA are exempt from tourist visa. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at The Universe Flat. Hotel recommendations are available here

How to reach the Institute: The school will be held at ICTP South American Institute, located at IFT-UNESP, which is across the street from a major bus and subway terminal (Terminal Barra Funda). The address which is closer to the entrance of the IFT-UNESP building is R. Jornalista Aloysio Biondi, 120 – Barra Funda, São Paulo. The easiest way to reach us is by subway or bus, please find instructions here.

Yellow fever vaccination is recommended for travellers going to Brazil. Note that the vaccine needs to be taken at least ten days before the trip to be effective.