PMV
14 August 2023 to 10 September 2023
The problem of how densely solid objects can pack in space has been a source of fascination since the dawn of civilization. The dense packing of objects is intimately related to the arrangement of molecules in condensed states of matter and to the best way to transmit encoded messages over a noisy channel. Considerable progress has been made with the dense ordered packing of hard spheres, notably Hales’ proof of the famous Kepler conjecture. Similarly, the random packing of hard spheres now occupies a canonical position in granular physics with deep connections to jamming, thermodynamics and the glass transition. However, over the last two decades the field of packing problems has broadened considerably to encompass the packing of anisotropic particles (e.g. ellipsoids and polyhedra) and the packing of soft “squishy” particles. This has been driven in part by the rise of soft condensed matter physics - which is ever producing new building blocks (to play) or pack with – as well as advances in computer hardware/software enabling the ready simulation of anisotropic particles.
This workshop will take a broad view of recent advances within the context of the previous work on hard spheres. Particular questions that will be addressed include: what can proofs of hard sphere packings tell us about constructing proofs of the densest packings of anisotropic particles? Can packings of soft objects be given a rigorous mathematical definition? What do packing problems tell us about morphogenesis in biological systems – to which there are many similarities.
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22 August 2023 to 24 August 2023
Monday 14th August 2023 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Denis Weaire Trinity College Dublin |
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Sascha Hilgenfeldt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Tuesday 15th August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Stefan Hutzler Trinity College Dublin |
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Wednesday 16th August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Michael Engel Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Rob Kusner University of Massachusetts; University of Pennsylvania |
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Vinothan Manoharan Harvard University |
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Thursday 17th August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Ho-Kei Chan Harbin Institute of Technology |
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Jens Winkelmann Trinity College Dublin; Vodafone |
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Friday 18th August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Mark Eaglen Bangor University |
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Chaim Goodman-Strauss None / Other |
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Monday 21st August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Michael Moore University of Manchester |
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Gary Delaney CSIRO |
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19:00 to 20:00 |
Reidun Twarock University of York |
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Friday 25th August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Rose Cersonsky University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Itai Einav University of Sydney |
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Monday 28th August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Jonathan Selinger Kent State University |
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Zorana Zeravcic ESPCI ParisTech |
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Philipp Schönhöfer University of Michigan |
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Tuesday 29th August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Gregory Grason University of Massachusetts |
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11:30 to 12:30 |
An-Chang Shi McMaster University |
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Wednesday 30th August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Paolo Amore Universidad de Colima |
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Chaim Goodman-Strauss None / Other |
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Thursday 31st August 2023 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Paulo Teixeira ISEL |
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Friday 1st September 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Reinhard Höhler Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris; Université Gustave Eiffel |
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Jacob Morgan Aberystwyth University |
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Monday 4th September 2023 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Mohammad Saadatfar University of Sydney; Australian National University |
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Tuesday 5th September 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Gareth Alexander University of Warwick |
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Axel Voigt Technische Universität Dresden |
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Martin Gwynne Aberystwyth University |
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Wednesday 6th September 2023 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Patrick Shipman Colorado State University; University of Arizona |
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Gerd Schröder-Turk Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
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