Sunday, May 29 2022

9:30-10:00 Introduction

Chair: Luigi La Ragione

10:00-10:40 Joe Goddard

Reflections on non-local models for granular flow

10:45-11:05 Dalila Vescovi

Phase transition in granular systems

11:10-11:30 Giuseppe Zurlo

Incompatible surface growth

11:30-12:00 coffee break

12:00-12:40 Klaus Kroy

Bimodal transport ingrained in bimodal sands

13:00-15:00 Lunch

Chair: Ishan Sharma

15:30-16:10 Lev Truskinovsky

New mesoscopic model of crystal plasticity

16:15 -16:55 Renaud Dellanay

Boundary conditions for granular flows bounded by flat frictional surfaces


19:00 Dinner

Monday, May 30 2022

Chair: Diego Berzi

10:00-10:40 Hans Herrmann Frustrated Bearings

10:45-11:05 Anna Prati

Experimental analysis of the variations of the morphology of an erodible bed induced by oscillating stiff and flexible plates

11:10-11:30 Simona Guglielmi

Micro-macro processes in clays under different loading paths

11:30-12:00 coffee break

12:00-12:40 Vanessa Magnanimo

Waves in natural and improved granular soils

13:00-15:00 Lunch

Chair: Federica Cotecchia

15:30-16:10 Maurizio Angelillo

Stress singularities in Masonry-Like materials

16:15 -16:55 Dieter Issler

What Turns a Snow Avalanche Into a Dragon King?


19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, May 31 2022

Chair: Michele Larcher

10:00-10:40 Hernan Makse

Network theory and machine learning for granular packing

10:45-11:05 Callum Tregaskis

Subcritical and supercritical granular flow around an obstacle on a rough inclined plane

11:10-11:30 Shribharath Bharath

Vertical structure of particulate rings around small bodies

11:30-12:00 coffee break

12:00-12:40 Hayley Shen

The state-of-the-art modelling for gravity waves through sea ice

13:00-15:00 Lunch

Chair: Patrick Richard

15:30-16:10 Jean Noel Roux

Basic structural and mechanical properties of model cohesive granular materials and other particulate assemblies

16:15 -16:55 Angelo Amorosi

Bridging the gap between the micro-macro features of clays: lessons learned from observing and modelling their incrementally reversible response


19:30 Dinner


Wednesday, June 1 2022

Chair: Alexandre Valance

10:00-10:40 Stefan Luding

From particle simulations towards a universal continuum theory about jamming, un-jamming transitions

10:45-11:05 Antonio Pol

Kinematics and orientational order in granular flows made of shape-anisotropic particles


11:10-11:50 Luc Oger

Robust experimental study of avalanche precursory events based on reproducible cycles of grain packing destabilizations

12:00-12:20 coffee break

12:20-13:00 Giulio Giusteri

Local models for materials that gain and lose memory

13:00-15:00 Lunch

Chair: Michele Larcher

15:30-16:10 Cesare Davini

The Gaussian stiffness of graphene

16:15 -16:55 Riccardo Artoni

Self-diffusion in dense granular flows : solid fraction dependence, anisotropy and nonlocality


19:30 Dinner


Thursday, June 2 2022

Chair: Dan Hanes

10:00-10:40 Jim Jenkins

Dense debris flows

11:00-13:00 Round Table

Introduction: Jim Jenkins

Coordinators: Diego Berzi, Michele Larcher and Alexandre Valence


13:00 - 15:00 Lunch


19:30 Gala Dinner in honor of Jim