SNP2022 - Mechanics and Analysis
56th Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy
Pisa, Italy, 21-23 September 2022
Pisa, Italy, 21-23 September 2022
The 56th Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy (SNP 2022) will be held September 21-23, 2022, at the University of Pisa, Italy. The topic of the Meeting is "Mechanics and Analysis".
For information on past meetings go to the SNP website.
Roberto Paroni (roberto.paroni@unipi.it), University of Pisa
Antonino Favata (antonino.favata@uniroma1.it), Sapienza University of Rome
Roberto Alessi (roberto.alessi@unipi.it)
Riccardo Barsotti (riccardo.barsotti@unipi.it)
Matteo Brunetti (matteo.brunetti@unipi.it)
Paolo S. Valvo (p.valvo@ing.unipi.it)
Paolo Fisicaro
Elisa Galletto
Monia Mannucci
Marco Picchi Scardaoni
The Meeting is dedicated to the memory of Morton Gurtin (1934-2022), who best represented the spirit of the SNP.
Gurtin provided seminal contributions to nonlinear continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, with applications to problems in materials science .
Palazzo della Sapienza, Aula magna storica, Via Curtatone e Montanara, 15, 56126 Pisa.
University of Kentucky
Title of the lecture:
Rationalizing quantitative texture anlysis and beyond
Department of Mathematics
University of Pisa (Italy)
Title of the lecture:
Optimal reinforcing networks for elastic structures
Department of Mathematics and Information Technology ''Ulisse Dini'
University of Florence
Title of the lecture:
Phase-field approximation of a vectorial, geometrically non linear cohesive fracture energy
The Department of Mathematics
Cornell University (USA)
Title of the lecture:
Existence theorems for highly deformable elastic surfaces
Department of Continuum Mechanics and Theory of Structures
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Title of the lecture:
On material and geometrical instabilities in nonlinear elasticity
Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France)
Title of the lecture:
The homogenization of the Neumann's brush problem when the density of the teeth can vanish
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
University of Crete (Greece)
Title of the lecture:
Squeezing and Running Cells: Phase Transitions and Road Building in Biomaterials
Department of Mathematics ''F. Casorati''
University of Pavia (Italy)
Title of the lecture:
Photoresponsive Nematic Elastomers
Davide Ambrosi, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Elementary mechanics of the mitral valve
Lorenzo Bardella, Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics (DICATAM), University of Brescia, Italy
A size-dependent Eulerian formulation of plasticity accounting for geometrically necessary dislocations through a micro-plasticity rate
Yi-chao Chen, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, U.S.A.
A Constitutive Theory for Active Material Surfaces and Respiratory Muscles
Fabrizio Davì, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Scintillators, a multi-scale model. From continuum mechanics to gradient flows and Reaction-diffusion-drift equations
Simon R. Eugster, Institute for Nonlinear Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Piola Transformations in Second-gradient Continua
Lorenzo Freddi, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Informatiche e Fisiche, Università di Udine, Italy
Stability of boundary conditions for the Sadowsky functional
Kaibo Hu, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand machinery: homological algebra, mechanics and analysis
Marco Morandotti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Semi-discrete modeling of systems of disclinations and dislocations
Domenico Mucci, University of Parma, Italy
Crack occurrence in bodies with gradient polyconvex energies: remarks
Maria Clara Nucci, University of Messina, Italy
Is Mechanics a branch of Analysis?
Paolo Podio-Guidugli, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei,
On distance stress
Giuseppe Puglisi, Dip. Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, del Territorio, Edile e di Chimica, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Thermomechanical effects on the fragile vs ductile transition in biological adhesion
Souhayl Sadik, Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark
On the Mechanics of E-cones
Harmeet Singh, Institute of Mathematics, EPFL, Switzerland
Planar equilibria of an elastic rod wrapped around a circular capstan
Fabio Sozio, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Nonlinear Mechanics of Accrection
Attendance is free, but due to Covid-19 restrictions, registration is required. For the application procedure plase fill the
A block of rooms has been reserved at
Residence "Le Benedettine", Lungarno Sidney Sonnino, 18, 56125 Pisa (next to the Convention Center "Le Benedettine")
From Pisa airport to the Residence "Le Benedettine"
Suggested route:
PISAMOVER train from airport to main train station (7 min)
Walk from main train station to Residence le Benedettine (11 min)
From main train station to the Residence "Le Benedettine"
Suggested route:
Walk (11 min)
From Residence "Le Benedettine" to the Meeting Location (Palazzo della Sapienza, Aula magna storica)