Location: Room 1AD100, first floor, Torre Archimede
Monday, June 16
08:45 - 09:10 Registration and Opening
09:10 - 10:00 Keynote I: Pandolfi - A coupled multiscale model of the human cornea accounting for the collagenous microstructure and the extracellular matrix
10:00 - 10:30 Turlier - From cell to tissue tension: revisiting a century-old biophysical concept
10:30 - 11:00 Puglisi - Supercontraction-Induced Torsion in Spider Silks is Just a Dual Poynting Effect
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Saccomandi - Nonlinear Waves and Biological Tissues
12:00 - 12:30 Miller - Homogenised modelling of the electro-mechanical behaviour of a vascularised poroelastic composite representing the myocardium
12:30 - 13:00 Magni - Elastic Plateau-Rayleigh instability in soft cylinders: Surface elasticity and periodic beading
Lunch on site
14:10 - 15:00 Keynote II: Truskinovsky - What is active stress?
15:00 - 15:30 Celora - Self-organisation of migrating multicellular communities
15:30 - 16:00 Lonati - Variational problems for nematic axisymmetric films
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00 Nardinocchi - Modeling mechanical instabilities driven by differential swelling in soft tissues
17:00 - 17:30 Étienne - Mechanics of entropic biopolymer networks from the thermodynamics of molecular motors
Tuesday, June 17
09:10 - 10:00 Keynote III: Erlich - Incompatibility-driven growth
10:00 - 10:30 Pozzi - Geometric control by active mechanics of epithelial gap closure
10:30 - 11:00 Balbi - Wrinkling of 3D (auxetic) bi-layers in tension
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Preziosi - Modelling cell trans-migration to understand cancer invasion
12:00 - 12:30 Debta - Modeling swelling-induced shape morphing in functionally grade polymeric gels
12:30 - 13:00 Zoppello - Swimming changing length
Lunch on site
14:10 - 15:00 Keynote IV: Caforio - Development and personalisation of multiphysics, multiscale models of cardiovascular function
15:00 - 15:30 Teresi - Stress Free Morphing
15:30 - 16:00 Ramírez Torres - Multiscale Analytical Method for the Homogenised Response of Composite Materials with Evolving Internal Structure: Multilayered and Fibre-Reinforced Cases
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00 Galasso - Constitutive modelling of passive skeletal muscles
17:00 - 17:30 Girelli - Dynamical Anomalous Transport of Molecules Subject to Inhomogeneous Body Forces
20:00 Conference Dinner
Wednesday, June 18
09:10 - 10:00 Keynote V: Giverso - How Cells Find Their Way: Modeling Cell Reorientation and Neuron Pathfinding on Cyclically Stretched Substrates
10:00 - 10:30 Lucci - Mathematical Modelling of Viscoelastic Dynamics in Cell-Matrix Interactions
10:30 - 10:50 Carniel - Coupled Experimental and Computational Approach for the Constitutive Analysis of Biological Tissues
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Paparini - Shape instabilities driven by topological defects in nematic polymer networks
12:00 - 12:30 Dash - Mechanics of microbubbles for biomedical applications
12:30 Closing remarks