Top: Origami mechanisms such as the Miura-ori can have their mechanical properties tuned by the introduction of localized misfolds known as “pop-through” defects. (Jesse Silverberg)
Center: Building pseudolayers by integrating up the torsion of the integral curves of the pitch axes in a cholesteric liquid crystal. (Daniel Beller)
Bottom: Level sets of surfaces can be used to study layered materials in one dimension lower. Here a tilted helicoid leads to a dislocation in a smectic liquid crystal. (Randall Kamien)
Speakers:
- Xian Chen Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
- Weinan E Princeton University
- Sharon Glotzer University of Michigan
- Alain Goriely University of Oxford
- Yury Grabovsky Temple University
- Miranda Holmes-Cerfon New York University
- Randall Kamien University of Pennsylvania
- Alain Karma Northeastern University
- Emmanuelle Lacaze Université Pierre et Marie Curie
- Xavier Lamy Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
- Emanuel Lazar University of Pennsylvania
- Robert MacPherson Institute for Advanced Study
- Maria Giovanna Mora Università di Pavia
- Massimiliano Morini Università di Parma
- Cyrill Muratov New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Ryan Murray Carnegie Mellon University
- Celia Reina University of Pennsylvania
- Pedro Reis Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Christian Santangelo University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Sylvia Serfaty Université Pierre et Marie Curie
- Michael Shelley New York University
- Tim Sluckin University of Southampton
- Brian Spencer State University of New York, Buffalo
- Dominic Vella University of Oxford
- Epifanio Virga Università di Pavia
- Arghir Zarnescu University of Sussex and “Simion Stoilow” Institute
- Pingwen Zhang Peking University
Organizers:
Robert V. Kohn New York University
John M. Ball University of Oxford
Giovanni Leoni Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Palffy-Muhoray Kent State University
Limited funding is available to help early-career researchers attend the workshop. The deadline to apply for support is November 1.
