IUTAM Symposium on Chemo-Mechanics

The most exciting scientific problems often lie at the interface between disciplines, and the frontier between mechanics and chemistry is a particularly rich one. This IUTAM Symposium on Chemo-Mechanics aims at bringing together mechanics and chemistry to address many of the most pressing material degradation problems, such as battery degradation, hydrogel integrity, metallic oxidation and corrosion, and hydrogen embrittlement. The Symposium will comprise a selection of 40 invited speakers from all over the globe, who are key players in the mechanics and chemistry communities (see the Invited Speakers tab). Discussion and interactions will be stimulated and the technical program will be complemented by an enjoyable social program aimed at further maximising interactions between participants (see the Program tab). For non-invited speakers, there will be opportunities to participate in the workshop through a poster presentation or as a regular attendee. Up to 100 attendees are expected in a unique location (Jesus College, Oxford), combining modern conference facilities with a traditional ‘Oxonian’ atmosphere (see the Venue tab).

The symposium will bring together experts from both academia and industrial R&D and span theoretical, computational and experimental methodologies across the scales. The aim is to showcase and discuss the new insight gained through novel multi-physics models and insightful high-resolution experiments. It is expected that new observations will be presented, as well as new mechanistic interpretations resulting from those observations. And where better to do this than Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, home to 73 Nobel Prize awardees and where Robert Hooke first highlighted the importance of observing and understanding material behaviour.