Center for Advanced Mathematical
Sciences (AUB)
Beirut, Lebanon
Sponsors
Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences
American University of Beirut
Abdus Salam International Centre for
Theoretical Physics, Trieste
French Physical Society (SFP) Division of Condensed
Matter Physics
Direction de la Cooperation Scientifique et
Technique, Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres, France
Commission Phys-Med, SFP
Organisers
G. George Batrouni (Nice), Daniel Bideau (Rennes)
Khalil Bitar (Beirut), Alex
Hansen (Trondheim)
Invited Speakers include
P. Bak (Copenhagen), M. Ben Amar (Paris), L. Bocquet (ENS, Lyon), P. Dimon (Copenhagen), S. S. Manna (Calcutta), F. Radjai (Montpelier), J. Schmittbuhl (Paris), H. Van Damme (Orleans)
Scientific Committee
E. Guyon, Chair (Director, ENS, Paris), A. Chamseddine, Co-Chair (Beirut), K. K. Bardhan (Calcutta), E. J. Hinch (Cambridge, UK), K. J. Måløy (Oslo), S. Roux (ESPCI, Paris), G. Toulouse (ENS, Paris), J.-P. Vilotte (IPG, Paris), D. Wolf (Duisburg)
The subjects to be covered include: Earthquakes,
friction, stick-slip models, sandpiles, avalanches, flow and segregation
in granular media, fracture in complex or composite materials, multiphase
fluid flow in fractured or porous media, self organization, growth processes.
Further information.
For information and registration contact:
G. George Batrouni
Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice, 1361 route des
Lucioles
F-06560 Valbonne, FRANCE
batrouni@inln.cnrs.fr
Deadline for registration and abstracts: April
10, 1998
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