Birs- 16w5021: Mathematical Problems of Orientationally Ordered Soft Solids

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    Optimal patterns of growth for non-Euclidean sheets

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    Complex polymer interactions in azobenzene-based photoresponsive polymers

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    Thermal and electrical actuation of cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers and gels

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    Emergent behaviour in active systems: the role of disorder

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    Morphing and shape programming of soft and biological structures

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    Challenges in the multiphysics modeling of polymer gels

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    Liquid crystal elastomers as machines

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    Shape Selection in thin films: from liquid-crystal elastomers to self-assembled aggregates

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    Interplay of microstructure and wrinkling in nematic elastomer membranes

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    Topological mechanics and phononics

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    Active nematics at interfaces: conditioning and steering effects

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    Stability of vertical magnetic chains

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    Molecular simulations elucidate soft elasticity in polydomain liquid crystal elastomers

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    Microstructures of Electricity and Magnetism

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    Shape Transitions and Fluctuations of Helical Ribbons – from Cold Seed Pods to Thermal Chiral Macromolecules

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