SNP2022 - Mechanics and Analysis

56th Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy

Pisa, Italy, 21-23 September 2022

About the Meeting

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.

Organizers

Local Organizing Committee

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 .

Location

Palazzo della Sapienza, Aula magna storica, Via Curtatone e Montanara, 15, 56126 Pisa.

Program



Timetable_SNP.pdf

Truesdell Lecture

Chi-Sing Man

University of Kentucky

Title of the lecture:

Rationalizing quantitative texture anlysis and beyond

Keynote Lectures

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

Roundtable Speakers


  • 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


Registration

Attendance is free, but due to Covid-19 restrictions, registration is required. For the application procedure plase fill the

Registration form

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved at

Venue and local directions

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)