Amorphous matter far from equilibrium, such as glasses, gels, and jammed systems, present fundamental physics challenges. They also find applications across a wide range of materials, including glassy polymers in synthetic materials, colloidal gels in consumer products, and jammed cellular structures in biological tissues. Furthermore, insights into frictional and granular materials are fundamental to explaining geophysical phenomena. Research in this field bridges traditional disciplines—spanning physics, biology, mechanics, materials science, and engineering—and provides vital perspectives on the structure and dynamics of amorphous solids.
This session is dedicated to the fundamental rheology of amorphous solids. We welcome contributions from experimental, theoretical, and computational studies that explore mechanical response, relaxation dynamics, kinetic arrest, aging phenomenon, jamming transition, and relationship between microscopic structure and macroscopic rheology in such amorphous solids.
Chairs:
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Hajime Tanaka (University of Tokyo, Japan) |
Yogesh M. Joshi (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India) |