Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Time Event  
08:30 - 08:50 Registration and welcome coffee - conference room  
08:50 - 09:00 Welcome - Kirsten Martens  
09:00 - 09:30 Aging dynamics and spontaneous glass-glass transition in a colloidal clay - Roberta Angelini
 
09:30 - 10:00 Aging, stiffening and softening of gel networks - Mehdi Bouzid
 
10:00 - 10:30 Slow relaxations and aging of gelatin gels - Tristan Baumberger
 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:30 Ultra-long-range dynamic correlations during aging of gels - Pinaki Chaudhuri
 
11:30 - 12:00 Coherent x-ray studies of the microscopic dynamics underlying the phase behavior and nonlinear rheology - Robert L. Leheny
 
12:00 - 12:30 Aging and relaxation - Discussion Session - Luca Cipelletti & Beatrice Ruta  
14:00 - 14:30 Elastoplastic models of relaxation, deformation and creep in disordered materials - Jean-Louis Barrat
 
14:30 - 15:00 Failure precursors in the dynamics of a colloidal gel under creep - Luca Cipelletti
 
15:00 - 15:30 Creep, failure and shear banding in a phase separating system - Francesco Puosi
 
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 16:30 Gravitational collapse of colloidal gels and connections to kinetic “arrest” - Roseanna Zia
 
16:30 - 16:50 Precursors of failure in a gel forming system - Raffaela Cabriolu
 
16:50 - 17:30 Creep and precursors to failure - Discussion session - Laurence Ramos & Kirsten Martens  
17:30 - 19:30 Poster session - in the hall of Centre Blaise Pascal (M6 building)  

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:30 Rigidity percolation, floppy modes, and frequency dependent shear modulus of colloidal gels - Xiaoming Mao
 
09:30 - 10:00 Structural and dynamical heterogeneities in colloidal gel rheology - Lilian Hsiao
 
10:00 - 10:30 Are rigidity and directed percolations the precursors of colloidal gelation? - Ramon Castaneda-Priego
 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:20 Pre-Fracture Softening in Intermediate Filament Networks - Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts
 
11:20 - 11:40 Droplets in emulsion gels: from fillers to networks - Marion Roullet
 
11:40 - 12:00 Elasticity and yielding of calcite paste: scaling laws in a dense colloidal suspension - Teresa Liberto
 
12:00 - 12:30 Onset of rigidity and elasticity - Emanuela Del Gado and Giuseppe Foffi  
14:00 - 14:30 Optimal Fourier transforms for probing oscillatory rheology of networks - Gareth McKinley
 
14:30 - 15:00 Dynamic and rheological signatures of repulsive and attractive colloidal glasses during yielding - George Petekidis
 
15:00 - 15:30 Glasses and (bi)-gel under (oscillatory) deformation - Giuseppe Foffi
 
15:30 - 17:00 Poster session - in the hall of Centre Blaise Pascal (M6 building)  
17:00 - 17:30 Gel drops and beads under extreme deformations - Laurence Ramos
 
17:30 - 18:00 How protein gels stiffen, harden and remember - Daniel Blair
 
18:00 - 18:30 Gel rheology: small and large amplitude deformations - Discussion session - Jean-Louis Barrat & Sébastien Manneville  
20:00 - 22:00 Conference dinner at "La Gargotte" - The restaurant is located 15 rue Royale in the first district. See the "Venue & conference dinner" page for more information.  

Friday, June 23, 2017

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:30 Damage accumulation and delayed failure in soft polymer networks - Jasper Van der Gucht
 
09:30 - 10:00 Experiment and modelling of the mechanical and fracture properties of dual-crosslink gels - Costantino Creton
 
10:00 - 10:30 Nonlinear viscoelasticity and generalized failure criterion for polymer gels - Thibaut Divoux
 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:30 Design and characterization of gel networks in consumer products - Marco Caggioni
 
11:30 - 11:50 Predicting and assessing rupture in protein gels under oscillatory shear - Thomas Gibaud
 
11:50 - 12:10 Free-volume measurement and instability in a sheared polymer glass - Mehdi Habibi
 
12:10 - 12:30 Design and control of mechanical instabilities - Jan Vermant & Veronique Trappe  
14:00 - 14:30 Superposition Rheology and Anisotropy in Rheological Propertiesof Sheared Colloidal Gels - Jan Vermant
 
14:30 - 15:00 Large, anisotropic structures during steady shear of colloidal gels - James W. Swan
 
15:00 - 15:30 Flow, arrest and yielding in dense colloidal suspensions - glasses vs. gels - Chinedum Osuji
 
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 16:30 Structured materials for cosmetic applications - Gustavo Luengo
 
16:30 - 16:50 Probing the linear and nonlinear rheology of thermokinematically-trapped gels - Michela Geri
 
16:50 - 17:20 Structuring and flow-induced anisotropies - Emanuela Del Gado & Beatrice Ruta  
17:20 - 17:30 Concluding Remarks - All organizers