Mechanical and thermal properties of disordered materials

The questions addressed are mainly:

• Plasticity of soft amorphous materials (foams, gels, cellular monolayers ...), coupling microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic approaches (K. Martens, J.-L. Barrat)
• Thermal and thermomechanical properties in heterogeneous elastic materials (J.-L. Barrat)
• Rheology of dense suspensions, linking microscopic interactions to macroscopic behavior (R. Mari, E. Bertin)
• Dynamics of supercooled liquids and the nature of glass transition (M. Ozawa)