New Horizons In Structural Mechanics, Elasticity and Homogenization
New Horizons In Structural Mechanics, Elasticity and Homogenization
Lucca, July 28-31, 2025
Lucca, July 28-31, 2025
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Description
Description
The field of structural and solid mechanics and homogenization has witnessed exciting advancements in recent years, driven by the possibility of designing materials on the basis of ensembles of structural elements. This event, New Horizons in Structural Mechanics, Elasticity, and Homogenization, aims to explore the latest developments in these interconnected fields, shedding light on the cutting-edge techniques and applications shaping the future of engineering and design. Topics will include the role of architected and smart materials, metamaterials, metastructures, and adaptive structures, advancements in nonlinear elasticity, and multiscale homogenization techniques. The event will bring together experts to discuss new theoretical, computational and experimental methods, and the potential of advanced materials in creating more efficient and optimized structures. Participants will gain insights into how these emerging trends are revolutionizing structural systems, enabling innovations in aerospace, civil and mechanical engineering, biomechanics, and beyond. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with pioneering work at the intersection of mechanics, materials science, and technology, setting the stage for the next generation of engineering solutions.
The event will also be an opportunity to celebrate the 85th birthday of Professor John R. Willis
The program will feature 38 invited lectures (30 minutes for each presentation, including time for questions and answers) delivered by internationally recognized researchers. The workshop includes also the participation of young scholars presenting posters during coffee and lunch breaks. The three best posters will be awarded at the end of the workshop.
Venue
Venue
The workshop will take place at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Piazza San Francesco 19, Lucca, Italy), from July 28 to July 31, 2025.
By car
By car
Lucca is situated on the highway that connects Florence to Pisa and Versilia, called "Autostrada A11 Firenze-Mare". If you land in Florence or Pisa airports, please follow A11 directions. The nearest highway exit to the IMT Campus is "Lucca-Est". You can leave your car at the Mazzini underground paid parking (Via dei Bacchettoni, reachable from Porta Elisa), or in the free parking lots around the football stadium "Porta Elisa", connected to Via della Quarquonia by a pedestrian walk trhough the city walls (Sortita di San Salvatore).
By train
By train
The Lucca Train Station is located in Piazzale Ricasoli. It is directly connected to the main Tuscan cities such as Pisa and Florence. San Francesco Complex is easily reachable by foot from the Train Station in about 20 minutes.
You can check connections with Pisa, Florence and Viareggio on the Trenitalia website. Due to the renovation of the direct trainline from Florence to Lucca, the following trains though Pisa are recommended (please avoid the direct connection Florence-Lucca since now it is served by a train from Florence to Pistoia, then a bus from Pistoia to Montecatini Terme, and finally a train from Montecatini to Lucca):
July 27 (from Florence and/or from Pisa):
Firenze S. M. Novella (8:28 a.m.) - Pisa Centrale (9:28 a.m.) + Pisa Centrale (9:50 a.m.) - Lucca (10:17 a.m.)
Firenze S. M. Novella (11:28 a.m.) - Pisa Centrale (12:26 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (12:50 p.m.) - Lucca (1:17 p.m.)
Firenze S. M. Novella (12:28 p.m.) - Pisa Centrale (1:26 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (1:43 p.m.) - Lucca (2:09 p.m.)
Firenze S. M. Novella (2:28 p.m.) - Pisa Centrale (3:28 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (3:50 p.m.) - Lucca (4:17 p.m.)
Firenze S. M. Novella (2:28 p.m.) - Pisa Centrale (3:28 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (3:50 p.m.) - Lucca (4:17 p.m.)
Firenze S. M. Novella (3:28 p.m.) - Pisa Centrale (4:28 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (4:50 p.m.) - Lucca (5:17 p.m.)
Firenze S. M. Novella (4:28 p.m.) - Pisa Centrale (5:28 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (5:50 p.m.) - Lucca (6:17 p.m.)
Firenze S. M. Novella (5:28 p.m.) - Pisa Centrale (6:28 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (6:50 p.m.) - Lucca (7:17 p.m.)
Firenze S. M. Novella (6:28 p.m.) - Pisa Centrale (7:28 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (7:50 p.m.) - Lucca (8:17 p.m.)
Firenze S. M. Novella (7:28 p.m.) - Pisa Centrale (8:28 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (8:50 p.m.) - Lucca (9:17 p.m.)
Firenze S. M. Novella (7:53 p.m.) - Pisa Centrale (9:04 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (9:50 p.m.) - Lucca (10:17 p.m.)
August 1 (to Pisa and/or Florence):
Lucca (7:55 a.m.) - Pisa Centrale (8:25 a.m.) + Pisa Centrale (8:32 a.m.) - Firenze S. M. Novella (9:33 a.m.)
Lucca (8:49 a.m.) - Pisa Centrale (9:16 a.m.) + Pisa Centrale (9:32 a.m.) - Firenze S. M. Novella (10:33 a.m.)
Lucca (9:42 a.m.) - Pisa Centrale (10:14 a.m.) + Pisa Centrale (10:32 a.m.) - Firenze S. M. Novella (11:33 a.m.)
Lucca (10:12 a.m.) - Pisa Centrale (10:43 a.m.) + Pisa Centrale (11:09 a.m.) - Firenze S. M. Novella (12:01 a.m.)
Lucca (10:42 a.m.) - Pisa Centrale (11:11 a.m.) + Pisa Centrale (11:30 a.m.) - Firenze S. M. Novella (12:33 a.m.)
Lucca (12:42 a.m.) - Pisa Centrale (1:13 p.m.) + Pisa Centrale (1:32 p.m.) - Firenze S. M. Novella (2:33 p.m.)
By airplane from Pisa
By airplane from Pisa
The nearest airport to Lucca is the Galileo Galilei Internation Airport of Pisa and therefore is highly recommended.
Pisa Airport – Pisa Centrale Railway Station: transfer provided by the Pisa Mover Shuttle service every 10 minutes and a journey time of about 5 minutes. At the Airport, the stop is located just outside the check-in area. At the Pisa Centrale Railway Station, the stop is located close to platform 14, from which you can easily reach the other platforms and station’s main entrance.
Trains to Lucca depart from Pisa Centrale Railway Station. See Trenitalia website for updated timetables and also those above list. Tickets can be puchased online. The journey takes about 30 minutes.
The CoTaPi taxi company is also available at Pisa Airport. A taxi from Pisa Airport to Lucca center could cost around € 70.00 to be negotiated with the taxi driver, and it would take about 30 minutes.
By airplane from Florence
By airplane from Florence
The School can also be reached from the Amerigo Vespucci International Airport of Florence.
On Sundays, one has to take the tramline T2 from the Airport to Santa Maria Novella Railway Station in Florence (approx. 25 minutes) and then a train to Lucca (see Trenitalia website for timetables and the above list).
Only on weekdays, one could take the tramline T2 from the Airport to the Guidoni stop (approx. 5 minutes) and then there is a direct coach to Lucca (see the timetable of the coach service operated by Autolinee Toscane).
Otherwise, the easiest way to reach IMT from the Florence Airport is by taxi. You can catch a taxi from just outside the airport for an approximate cost of € 120, to be negotiated with the taxi driver, and it would take about 1 hour.
Program at a glance
Program at a glance
July 27 (Sunday), from 18:00: registration and welcome reception
July 28 (Monday)
8:30: participants' registration
9:00: opening addresses
Session 1.1 - Chair: D. Bigoni
9:30 - 10:30: John Willis
10:30 - 11:00: coffee break & posters
Session 1.2 - Chair: M. Paggi
11:00 - 11:30: Pedro Ponte Castaneda
11:30 - 12:00: Sebastien Neukirch
12:00 - 12:30: Alexander & Natasha Movchan
12:30 - 13:30: lunch break & posters
Session 1.3 - Chair: F. Dal Corso
13:30 - 14:00: Norman Fleck
14:00 - 14:30: Nicola Pugno
14:30 - 15:00: Davide Bigoni
15.00 - 15.30 p.m.: tea break & posters
Session 1.4 - Chair: S. Forest
15:30 - 16:00: Anna Pandolfi
16:00 - 16:30: Vikram Deshpande
16:30 - 17:00: Open discussion
July 29 (Tuesday)
Session 2.1 - Chair: V. Deshpande
9:00 - 9:30: John Hutchinson
9:30 - 10:00: Lorenzo Bardella
10:00 - 10:30: Samuel Forest
10:30 - 11:00: coffee break & posters
Session 2.2 - Chair: L. Bardella
11:00 - 11:30: Huajian Gao
11:30 - 12:00: Christian Niordson
12:00 - 12:30: Francesco Dal Corso
12:30 - 13:30: lunch break & posters
Session 2.3 - Chair: G. Noselli
13:30 - 14:00: Robert McMeeking
14:00 - 14:30: Luca Deseri
14:30 - 15:00: Massimiliano Fraldi
15:00 - 15:30: tea break & posters
Session 2.4 - Chair: C. Niordson
15:30 - 16:00: Katia Bertoldi
16:00 - 16:30: Sergio Pellegrino
from 16:30: cultural visit
July 30 (Wednesday)
Session 3.1 - Chair: A.B. Movchan
9:00 - 9:30: Alan Needleman
9:30 - 10:00: Gennady Mishuris
10:00 - 10:30: Marco Paggi
10:30 - 11:00: coffee break & posters
Session 3.2 - Chair: M. Fraldi
11:00 - 11:30: Gianni Royer Carfagni
11:30 - 12:00: Gal Shmuel
12:00 - 12:30: Ferdinando Auricchio
12:30 - 13:30: lunch break & posters
Session 3.3 - Chair: G. Mishuris
13:30 - 14:00: Jean Baptiste Leblond
14:00 - 14:30: Walter Drugan
14:30 - 15:00: Valery Smyshlyaev
15:00 - 15:30: tea break & posters
Session 3.4 - Chair: S. Pellegrino
15:30 - 16:00: Giovanni Noselli
16:00 - 16:30: Yonggang Huang
16:30 - 17:00: open discussion
from 20:00: working dinner
July 31 (Thursday)
Session 4.1 - Chair: J.B. Leblond
9:00 - 9:30: Pierre Suquet
9:30 - 10:00: Paolo Podio-Guidugli
10:00 - 10:30: Enrico Radi
10:30 - 11:00: coffee break & posters
Session 4.2 - Chair: P. Suquet
11:00 - 11:30: Basile Audoly
11:30 - 12:00: Mattia Bacca
12.00 - 12.30: Graeme Milton
12:30 - 13:30: lunch break & posters
Session 4.3 promoted by the ERC Advanced Grant "Beyond hyperelasticity: a virgin land of extreme materials"
13:30 - 13:45: The ERC Advanced Grant BEYOND - D. Bigoni
13:45 - 14:00: Promotion of diversity (subject, age, gender and geography) - Chair: N.A. Fleck
14:00 - 16.30: Snapshots on posters
16:30 - 17.00: break
17:00 - 17:30: Poster award and closure
NHISMEH25_Book.pdfOrganizers
Organizers
Davide Bigoni, University of Trento, Italy
Francesco Dal Corso, University of Trento, Italy
Norman A. Fleck, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Marco Paggi, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
Invited lecturers
Invited lecturers
Basile Audoly, CNRS & Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Ferdinando Auricchio, University of Pavia, Italy
Lorenzo Bardella, University of Brescia, Italy
Mattia Bacca, University of British Columbia, Canada
Katia Bertoldi, Harvard University, USA
Davide Bigoni, University of Trento, Italy
Francesco Dal Corso, University of Trento, Italy
Luca Deseri, University of Trento, Italy
Vikram Deshpande, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Walter J. Drugan, University of Wisconsin, USA
Norman A. Fleck, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Samuel Forest, Mines Paris PSL, France
Massimiliano Fraldi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Huajian Gao, Tsinghua University, China
Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University, USA
John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University, USA
Jean-Baptiste Leblond, Sorbonne Université, France
Robert M. McMeeking, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Graeme W. Milton, The University of Utah, USA
Gennady Mishuris, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Alexander Movchan, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Natasha Movchan, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Alan Needleman, Brown University, USA
Sebastien Neukirch, Sorbonne University & CNRS, Paris, France
Christian F. Niordson, Denmark Technical University, Denmark
Giovanni Noselli, SISSA – International School for Advanced Studies, Italy
Marco Paggi, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
Anna Pandolfi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sergio Pellegrino, California Institute of Technology, USA
Paolo Podio-Guidugli, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, Italy
Pedro Ponte Castañeda, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nicola M. Pugno, University of Trento, Italy
Enrico Radi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Gianni Royer Carfagni, University of Parma, Italy
Gal Shmuel, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Valery Smyshlyaev, University College London, United Kingdom
Pierre Suquet, CNRS Centrale Marseille, France
John Willis, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Lodging to the invited lecturers and conference facilities have been provided by the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca in cooperation with Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, which are gratefully acknowledged
European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, Grant agreement No. ERC-ADG-2021-101052956-BEYOND
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