Programme of the Workshop 

Auxetics and related systems

 

27.06.2004 (Sunday)

14.30 ÷ 17.45 afternoon sessions

Chairman of the session: Krzysztof Witold Wojciechowski

14.30 ÷ 14.45

Opening

14.45 ÷ 15.45

Anselm Griffin (anselm.griffin@ptfe.gatech.edu)

Toward molecular auxetics: synthesis, structure, and characterization of main chain liquid crystalline polymers consisting of laterally attached para-quaterphenyls

15.45 ÷ 16.15 coffee break

Chairman of the session: Anselm Griffin

16.15 ÷ 17.00

Krzysztof Witold Wojciechowski (kww@man.poznan.pl)

Simple mechanisms leading to n < 0

17.00 ÷ 17.45

Gaoyuan Wei (gywei@chem.pku.edu.cn)

Modelling of one, two and three dimensional molecular auxetics

18.00 welcome party

28.06.2004 (Monday)

7.30 ÷ 8.45 breakfast

9.00 ÷ 12.45 morning sessions

Chairman of the session: Fabrizio Scarpa

9.00 ÷ 10.00

Andrew Alderson (a.alderson@bolton.ac.uk)

Modelling the deformation mechanisms, structure-property relationships and applications of auxetic nanomaterials

10.00 ÷ 10.45

Massimo Ruzzene (massimo.ruzzene@ae.gatech.edu)

Directional and band gap behaviour of periodic auxetic lattices

10.45 ÷ 11.15 coffee break

Chairman of the session: Georgios Stavroulakis

11.15 ÷ 12.00

Kim Alderson (k.alderson@bolton.ac.uk)

How to make auxetic fibre reinforced composites

12.00 ÷ 12.45

Naveen Ravirala (nr1res@bolton.ac.uk)

Expanding the range of auxetic polymeric products using a novel melt-spinning route

13.00 ÷ 13.45 lunch

14.00 ÷ 15.45 afternoon session

Chairman of the session: Andrew Alderson

14.00 ÷ 15.00

Georgios Stavroulakis (gestavr@cc.uoi.gr)

Auxetic behaviour: appearance and engineering applications

15.00 ÷ 15.45

Hajime Kimizuka (kimizuka.hajime@jri.co.jp)

Temperature elasticity of sio2 polymorphs: structural phase transition and elastic anomaly

15.45 ÷ 16.15 coffee break

16.15 ÷ 17.45 poster session  

18.00 bonfire party


29.06.2004 (Tuesday)

7.30 ÷ 8.45 breakfast

9.00 ÷ 12.45 morning sessions

Chairman of the session: David Heyes

9.00 ÷ 10.00

William Hoover (hoover1@llnl.gov)

Searching for auxetics with DYNA3D and ParaDyn

10.00 ÷ 10.45

Jarosław Rybicki (ryba@task.gda.pl)

Molecular dynamics simulations of nanomechanical properties of metals

10.45 ÷ 11.15 coffee break

Chairman of the session: Kim Alderson

11.15 ÷ 12.00

Jürgen Schreiber (schreibe@eadq.izfp.fhg.de)

Thin Al-layers sputtered onto polyimid - an auxetics?

12.00 ÷ 12.45

Peter Švec (fyzisvec@savba.sk)

Al-based systems with unusual mechanical and transport properties

13.00 ÷ 13.45 lunch

14.00 ÷ 17.45 afternoon sessions

Chairman of the session: William Hoover

14.00 ÷ 15.00

David Heyes (d.heyes@surrey.ac.uk)

Liquids at negative pressure

15.00 ÷ 15.45

Jakob Schiøtz (schiotz@fysik.dtu.dk)

Atomic-scale modelling of plastic deformation of nanocrystalline copper

15.45 ÷ 16.15 coffee break

Chairman of the session: Jürgen Schreiber

16.15 ÷ 17.00

Toshiji Kanaya (kanaya@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp)

Thermal expansion and contraction of polymer thin films

17.00 ÷ 17.45

Bogdan Idzikowski (idzi@ifmpan.poznan.pl)

Interface physics in nanocrystalline magnets

 

18.00 ÷ 18.45 round table discussion Chairman Gaoyuan Wei

19.00 banquet (dinner)

30.06.2004 (Wednesday)

7.30 ÷ 8.45 breakfast

9.00 ÷ 12.45 morning sessions

Chairman of the session: Toshiji Kanaya

9.00 ÷ 10.00

Fabrizio Scarpa (f.scarpa@shef.ac.uk)

Auxetic compliant flexible PU foams: static and dynamic properties

10.00 ÷ 10.45

Neil Gaspar (n.gaspar@physics.org)

Quantitative analysis of the microscale of auxetic foams

10.45 ÷ 11.15 coffee break

Chairman of the session: Sergey Dmitrev

11.15 ÷ 12.00

Joseph Grima (joseph.grima@um.edu.mt)

Auxetic behaviour from rotating rigid units

12.00 ÷ 12.45

Svetlana Tokmakowa (sveta@akin.ru)

Stereographic projections of Poisson’s ratio in auxetic crystals

13.00 ÷ 13.45 lunch

14.00 ÷ 17.45 afternoon sessions

Chairman of the session: Hajime Kimizuka

14.00 ÷ 15.00

Sergey Dmitriev (sergey@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

Discrete and continuum models for crystalline media with microscopic rotations

15.00 ÷ 15.45

Konstantin Tretiakov (kvt@ictp.trieste.it)

Monte Carlo simulations of hard body systems with extreme values of the Poisson ratio

15.45 ÷ 16.15 coffee break

Chairman of the session: Jarosław Rybicki

16.15 ÷ 16.45

Sergey Shilko (depa10@tut.by)

Numerical and experimental study of auxetic closed-cell foams

16.45 ÷ 17.15

Vitaly Novikov (novikov@te.net.ua)

Extreme viscoelastic properties of composites of fractal structures due to negative stiffness phases

17.15 ÷ 17.30

Closing

18.00 ÷ 19.00 dinner

19.30 leaving Będlewo (return to GROMADA hotel in Poznań)