There is a long history of scientific (and artistic) interest in bubbles and foams. The last quarter of a century has seen a concerted effort to build up a full understanding of the properties of a liquid foam, beginning with statics and now progressing to dynamics. The rheology of such a complex system poses a particularly deep challenge, even when reduced to the simplest experimental circumstances. Meanwhile the Olympic Games have just highlighted the subject in a dramatic form: the Water Cube, which takes its essential structure from the 1994 Weaire-Phelan ideal structure of a dry foam.
Organisées tous les deux ans sous l’égide de la Société Française de Physique et de sa division de la Matière Condensée, ces journées sont devenues un des plus importants rassemblements de physiciens en France puisqu’elles attirent régulièrement plus de 700 participants.
Les JMC ont pour objectif de réunir les chercheurs pour exposer l'état de l'art et les progrès les plus marquants dans tous les domaines de la matière condensée, des lois fondamentales aux applications.
There is a long history of scientific (and artistic) interest in bubbles and foams. The last quarter of a century has seen a concerted effort to build up a full understanding of the properties of a liquid foam, beginning with statics and now progressing to dynamics. The rheology of such a complex system poses a particularly deep challenge, even when reduced to the simplest experimental circumstances. Meanwhile the Olympic Games have just highlighted the subject in a dramatic form: the Water Cube, which takes its essential structure from the 1994 Weaire-Phelan ideal structure of a dry foam.