ORGANIZERS:
Jay Fineberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Michael Urbakh (Tel Aviv University)
This conference will focus on the different methods of studying and simulating a transition from static to kinetic friction, and the interfacial dynamical processes responsible for energy dissipation. The aim of the conference is to discuss recent scientific results on different aspects of nano- and macro-scale friction and to formulate important unresolved problems.
Friction mechanisms play a central role in diverse systems and phenomena that span vast ranges of scales, from the nanometer contacts inherent in technological micro- and nano-machines to the geophysical scales characteristic of earthquakes. Despite the practical and fundamental importance of tribology and the growing efforts in the field, many key aspects of friction dynamics are only partially understood. One of the main difficulties in understanding and predicting frictional response is the complexity of highly non-equilibrium processes going on in any tribological interface which include detachment and re-attachment of multiple junctions (“bonds”) between the contacting surfaces in relative motion. These non-equilibrium processes result in stick-slip dynamics that are central to many different fields of physics and material science including tribology, micro- and nano-mechanics systems (as in MEMS and NEMS), granular materials, dynamics of fractures and earthquakes. The conference will include five sessions (twenty oral presentations) that will concentrate on the discussion of the following topics:
- Probing tribology at the nanoscale: trends in experimental techniques
- Development of more realistic models of contact and noncontact AFM
- Experimental and theoretical studies of friction on micro- and macro-scales, from single asperity to multi-asperity contacts
- Friction on a geophysical scale
- Mechanisms of stick-slip motion at nano- and macro-scales
- Controlling friction response and tuning high-dissipative sliding regimes
SPEAKERS:
Einat Aharonov (Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
Yehuda Ben‐Zion (University of Southern CA, Los Angeles)
Roland Bennewitz (INM‐Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrucken, Germany)
Eran Bouchbinder (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Rob W. Carpick (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Martin Dienwiebel (Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials, Freiburg, Germany)
Jay Fineberg (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
Adam Foster (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Ernst Meyer (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Ruben Perez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Valentin Popov (Technical University, Berlin, Germany)
Ze’ev Reches (Oklahoma University)
James R. Rice (Harvard University, USA)
Heather Savage (Columbia University, USA)
Andre Schirmeisen (University of Muenster, Germany)
Marek Szymonski (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
Erio Tosatti (SISSA/ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
Michael Urbakh (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Elie Wanderman (ENS Paris, France)