The Overriding Issue:
What are the Analogies and Differences between Foams and Grains?

Examples to Explore:

• Force chains in cellular and granular materials
  
• Suspensions and wet foams (rheology, jamming, and annealing)
  
• Dilatency: pore/osmotic pressure
  
• Applicability of classical statistical physics
  
• Random close (loose) packing, jamming, order parameters
  
• Topological changes that accompany granular straining
  
• Coupled phenomena in foams (e.g. rheology and drainage)
  
• Transition from liquid foam to cellular solid (relaxation of local rules)
  
• Analogies between foams, cellular structures, granular materials, and suspensions
  
• Interstitial fluid motion, consolidation
  
• Material instabilities (localization and shear bands)
  
• Numerical algorithms

Working Groups

ELASTO-PLASTICITY GROUP	GEOMETRY, TOPOLOGY, AND PACKING
WAVE PROPAGATION	POLYDISPERSITY/POROUS MEDIA
Ivana Agnolin	Reza Mahmoodi Baram
Curt Koenders	Farhang Radjai
Vladimir Mozhaev	Mohammad Saadatfar
Stephane Pattofatto	Gudrun Schliecker
Alexander Potapov	Gerd Schröder
Vladimir Mozhaev	Martin Wackenhut
ELASTO-PLASTICITY	CELL STRUCTURES
Isabelle Cantat	Joe Goddard
Shio Inagaki	Nicolas Rivier
Jim Jenkins	Martin Wackenhut
Luc Oger	Dominik Weikl
Farang Radjai	Richard Weinkamer
Nick Rivier

FORCE CHAINS

Lothar Brendel

Renaud Delannay

Mohamad Hasan

Jim Jenkins

Jan Meinke

Luc Oger

Monday, October 7
09:30 - 10:00	SR1: Elasto-Plasticity Group meeting
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, Tea
11:00 - 11:30	SR1: Geometry, Topology & Packing Group meeting
14:30 - 16:00	Plenary session with short oral contributions
	D. Weikl
	M. Wackenhut
	G. E. Schroeder
	G. Schliecker
	M. Saadatfar
	A. Potapov
	S. Pattofatto
	V. Mozhaev
16:00 - 16:30	Break
16:30 - 18:00	Plenary session with short oral contributions
	J. Meinke
	R. Mahmoodi Baram
	J. T. Jenkins
	S. Inagaki
	M. Hasan
	R. Delannay
	L. Brendel
	I. Agnolin
Tuesday, October 8
09:30 - 10:00	SR1: Elasto-Plasticity Group meeting
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, Tea
11:00 - 11:30	SR1: Geometry, Topology & Packing Group meeting
afternoon	working group meetings
19:00 -	Dinner in the restaurant ``Villandry''
Wednesday, October 9
09:30 - 10:00	SR1: Elasto-Plasticity Group meeting
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, Tea
11:00 - 11:30	SR1: Geometry, Topology & Packing Group meeting
afternoon	working group meetings
Thursday, October 10
09:30 - 10:00	SR1: Elasto-Plasticity Group meeting
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, Tea
11:00 - 11:30	SR1: Geometry, Topology & Packing Group meeting
afternoon	working group meetings
Friday, October 11
09:30 - 10:00	SR1: Elasto-Plasticity Group meeting
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, Tea
11:00 - 11:30	SR1: Geometry, Topology & Packing Group meeting
afternoon	TGIF meeting
Saturday, October 12
09:00 - 10:30	SR1: Plenary meeting: Where are we?
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, Tea
11:00 - 12:30	SR1: Plenary meeting: Where to go?
Monday, October 14
15:00-16:00	Plenary planning meeting
Tuesday, October 15
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, Tea
11:00 - 12:00	Plenary research meeting
afternoon	Working group meetings
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee, Tea
16:00 - 16:30	Plenary talk: Christophe Oguey
19:00 -	Dinner at the restaurant ``Raskolnikoff''
Wednesday, October 16
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, Tea
11:00 - 12:00	Plenary research meeting
afternoon	Working group meetings
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee, Tea
16:00 - 17:00	Plenary talks: James Glazier, Philippe Claudin
Thursday, October 17
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, Tea
11:00 - 12:00	Plenary research meeting
afternoon	Working group meetings
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee, Tea
16:00 -	Gudrun's Farewell, Institute's Cafeteria
Friday, October 18
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, Tea
11:00 - 12:00	Plenary research meeting
afternoon	Working group meetings
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee, Tea
16:00 - 17:15	Plenary talk: Eric Clément
evening	TGIF meeting