Partial Order in Materials: Analysis, Simulations and Beyond

June 20, 2016 - June 30, 2016

Centre de recherches mathématiques Université de Montréal Pavillon André-Aisenstadt 2920, Chemin de la tour, 5th floor Montréal (Québec) H3T 1J4

The CRM "Partial Order in Materials: Analysis, Simulations and Beyond" workshop will comprise two 4-day focussed research meetings, from 20th-23rd June 2016 and 27th-30th June 2016, on partially ordered materials and complex fluids respectively, as part of the CRM thematic program on Computational Mathematics and Applications. The organizers are Dr Apala Majumdar (University of Bath, United Kingdom), Professor Stanley Alama (McMaster University), Professor Lia Bronsard (McMaster University) and Professor Alejandro Rey (McGill University). This workshop focuses on the mathematical modelling, analysis and simulations of partially ordered materials, somewhere in between the conventional solid and liquid phases of matter. Partial order is ubiquitous in nature and some key examples include liquid crystals, superconductors and complex fluids, glassy matter, colloidal suspensions, examples in the living world such as the cell cytoskeleton, bacterial suspensions and inanimate examples