Welcome to the second annual meeting of the GDR SoPhy: Soft Physics for Hard Materials.

The meeting will take place at the Jussieu campus in Paris on December 11 and 12. The meeting will begin at 10AM on the 11th, and end after lunch at 2PM on the 12th.

Among the topics relevant to the GDR SoPhy, we will address the following ones:

• Synthesis and characterization of building blocks for the synthesis of soft solids serving as soft precursors
• Control of the spatial organization of elementary building blocks and/or self-assembly
• Use of external fields to texture soft solids - memory effects
• Transformation of a soft solid into a hard material: analysis of the properties inherited from the soft precursor

Invited speakers and lecturers

Aurélie Hourlier-Fargette, Institut Charles Sadron et CNRS Univ. Strasbourg

"Architected polymeric foams generated from liquid templates"

Marie Albéric, Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris

"From amorphous calcium carbonate precursors to mineralized biological materials:

the case study of sea urchin biominerals"

The deadline for registration is November 15. For organizational reasons, the deadline will not be pushed at the last minute ! Please register as soon as possible if you're planning to join us. Thank you!