Welcome in Montpellier

Montpellier

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am pleased to announce that the 8th International Conference on Micromechanics of Granular Media, or more popularly Powders and Grains, will be held in the beautiful city of Montpellier, South of France, on July 3-7, 2017. The conference will be hosted by the Corum conference center located in the historical center and animated heart of Montpellier.

Since 1989, the Powders and Grains Conference is held every four years with the goal of providing an up-to-date picture of the broad research field of powders, grains, and granular media. Based on the topics covered in previous conferences, and considering key emerging areas, the conference themes include granular solids, granular flows, granular gas, constitutive modeling, particle properties, cohesive materials, and applications to geomaterials and constructions, biomaterials and life-sciences, soil-root/plant interactions, reactive powders, geological scale modeling, pharmaceuticals, nano-granular materials, granular suspensions and colloids. Granular-related abstracts on all above research themes are welcome.

The Powders and Grains conference is traditionally organized as a single plenary session (no parallel sessions) composed of keynote lectures by internationally renowned researchers, contributed talks and extensive poster sessions. The poster sessions will continue the whole week. Three best posters will be selected during the first three days for a prize awarded during Gala dinner. A video prize will be awarded as well. The instructions for video submission will be announced soon on the conference website. As in previous editions, the conference proceedings will be published as ISI-referenced online papers (Follow the link for the papers of Powders and Grains 2013 held in Sydney). To follow conference news and updates, please subscribe to the mailing list of the conference at http://www2.msm.ctw.utwente.nl/msm_www/AEMMG.

Farhang Radjai
Conference Chairman

Keynote speakers

Malcolm Bolton,
University of Cambridge, UK
Geo-phenomena: finding the granular mechanism
Karen Daniels,
North Carolina State University, USA
The Role of Force Networks in Granular Materials
Elisabeth Guazzelli,
Aix-Marseille University, France
Rheology of dense suspensions of noncolloidal particles
Ken Kamrin,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Continuum modeling and continuum-level numerical simulation of granular flows
Jim Jenkins,
Cornell University, USA
Dense, Collisional, Shearing Flows
Takashi Matsushima,
University of Tsukuba, Japan
The granular processes in planetary surfaces
Vanessa Magnanimo,
University of Twente, Netherlands
Micromechanics of complex soils
Thorsten Poeschel,
Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
History and Structure of Granular Packings
Roland Pellenq,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Clays and cement under the nanoscope
Matthias Schroeter,
Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany
A local view on the role of shape and friction
Matthieu Wyart,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Unifying Suspension and Granular flows near Jamming
Runyu Yang,
University of New South Wales, Australia
DEM investigation of strength of powder compacts
Iker Zuriguel,
Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Flow and clogging of grains in confined geometries

Focus sessions

PARTICLE SHAPE EFFECTS

Heinrich Jaeger
James Franck Institut,
University of Chicago, USA

GRANULAR SUSPENSIONS

Guillaume Ovarlez
CNRS,
University of Bordeaux, France

Jeffery F. Morris
Levich Institute,
City College of New York, USA
MATERIAL INSTABILITY

François Nicot
Geomechanics group,
IRSTEA Grenoble, France

Félix Darve
Laboratoire 3SR,
University Grenoble Alpes, France

PARTICLE BREAKAGE

Ferenc Kun
Department of Theoretical Physics,
University of Debrecen, Hungary