SNP2025 - Nonlinear Elasticity & Analysis

59th Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy

The 59th Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy will be held from Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 June 2025, in Heraklion on the island of Crete in Greece; the theme is "Nonlinear Elasticity and Analysis". The meeting will be held at the Foundation of Research and Technology (FORTH), hosted by the Institute for Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM) (https://www.iacm.forth.gr/) and funded Jointly by SNP and IACM.

Nonlinear, large-deformation elasticity is re-emerging as a subject of central importance in various fields, including soft matter and biomaterials. Moreover, it plays a central role in the understanding of instabilities and singularities occurring in problems such as phase transitions, wrinkling, cavitation and fracture. Modern nonlinear elasticity and its connection to analysis and computation will be the central theme of the meeting. The goal is to bring together mathematicians, mechanicians, engineering scientists, and young researchers working in these areas.

Organizers

Timothy J. Healy

Phoebus Rosakis

Registration

Important information for all attendees:

Please fill the Registration Form. This is important to have a preliminary count for lunches, dinners and transportation.

Please make sure to pay your 2025 SNP membership dues; there is no additional registration fee for the meeting.

Program

Wednesday, 11th (morning)

9:30 – 10:00	Registration and opening remarks

10:10 – 11:00	Roberto PARONI (Keynote lecture) Towards a 1d model for tape spring devices

11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00	Lucas Bouck Plate Theory for Metric-Constrained Actuation of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Sheets

12:00 – 12:30	James Hanna Shear stresses in fluid and solid membranes with bending elasticity

12:30 – 14:00	Lunch Break

Wednesday, 11th (afternoon)

14:00 – 15:00	Martin KRUŽIK (Keynote lecture) Positive temperature in nonlinear thermoviscoelasticity

15:00 – 15:30	Brian Seguin Isometric immersions and framed curves

15:30 – 16:00	Alfio Grillo Internal constraints in uniaxial nematic elastomers: Indeterminacy and resolution via gauge relations

16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30	Stefan KRÖMER (Keynote lecture) Elastic materials with microscopic, elastically rigid magnetic inclusions

Thursday, 12th (morning)

9:30 – 9:30	Introductory Remarks

9:30 – 10:30	John BALL (TRUESDELL lecture) Complex martensitic microstructures in Ti76Nb22Al2

10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30	Georgios Grekas Electro- and Magneto-Elastic Modeling with Applications to Potassium Sodium Niobate and Iron-Nickel Alloys

11:30 – 12:30	Konstantinos KOYMATOS (Keynote lecture) On the role of quasiconvexity in dynamics

12:30 – 14:00	Lunch Break

Thursday, 12th (afternoon)

14:00 - 15:00	Barbora BENEŠOVÁ (Keynote lecture) Linearization in elastodynamics

15:00 – 15:30	Salvatore Federico Symmetries of the Elasticity Tensor Induced by the Jaumann Rate of the Kirchhoff Stress

15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30	Ahmed Elbanna A Quasi-Continuum Framework for Rate-Dependent Fracture in Polymer-like Networks

16:30 – 17:30	Arnav Gupta The inverse-deformation approach to fracture

20:00	Social Dinner

Friday, 13th (morning)

10:10 – 11:00	Athanassios TZAVARAS (Keynote lecture) Mathematical aspects of the equations of viscoelasticity with strain gradients

11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00	Reuven Segev On the kinematics and statics of multipolar media

12:00 – 12:30	Yi-Chao Chen Internal constraints and dimension reduction of deformations

12:30 – 13:00	TBA

Venue Information

Venue

The Workshop will take place at the "Lianis Auditorium" at the Main Building of the Research Center FORTH. FORTH is close to the University of Crete campus approximately 8km south-west of the city center.

Getting to Heraklion By Air

Nikos Kazantzakis airport (airport code: HER) can be reached by direct flights from many European cities. They are frequent flights daily from Athens (and other major Greek cities) of Aegean Airlines, SKYexpress and other airlines. Flight time to/from Athens is approximately 50min.

Getting to Heraklion By Sea

Luxury ferries sail from Piraeus (Athens) to Heraklion every evening. Departure from Piraeus is typically at 9pm with arrival to Heraklion at 7am in the next morning. For precise schedule and fares please check: Minoan Lines, ANEK lines and Bluestar ferries. We recommend that you book a bed in a cabin and enjoy a trip in the Archipelago drinking, dining, shopping etc in the ferry.

Airport to City center

From Heraklion airport you may either use public transportation (bus) or a taxi (stationed just outside the arrivals building). We recommend the taxi option.

Port to City center

The port is located 1.2km from the city center. You may either take a taxi or opt for a walk to your hotel.

Approximate taxi fares

City center to University: 13-15€
Airport to University: 20-25€
Airport to city center: 11-15€

Public transportation

There are two bus lines to the University campus. Ticket vending machines are located next to most bus stations. You can also buy tickets from kiosks around the city. A convenient bus stop is located outside Hotel Astoria at Eleftherias Square.