Disordered and Granular Materials

Topics:

• Magnetic Hysteresis and the Barkhausen effect
• Vortex matter in type II superconductors
• Dislocations
• Fracture of disordered media
• Granular Matter
• Physics of irregular surfaces

People:

• Andrea Baldassarri
• Benedetta Cerruti
• Francesca Colaiori
• Claudio Castellano
• Vittorio Loreto
• Daniele Vilone
• Stefano Zapperi

Collaborators:

• Alberto Petri (ISC-CNR, Roma)
• Fergal Dalton (ISC-CNR, Roma)
• Gianfranco Durin (IEN Torino)
• Alessandro Magni (IEN Torino)
• José S. Andrade (Physics Department, UFC, Fortaleza, Brasil)
• Mikko J. Alava (Physics Department, HUT, Helsinki, Finland)
• Ronald Dickman (Physics Department, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brasil)
• Jean-Robert Grasso (LGIT, Grenoble, France)
• M.-Carmen Miguel (Physics Department, Univ. Barcelona, Spain)
• Paolo Moretti (Dep. Mechanical Engineering, Univ. Edinbourgh, UK)
• Miguel A. Munoz (Physics Department, Univ. Grenada, Spain)
• Phani Nukala (Oak Ridge National Lab., USA)
• Rubem Sommer (Physics Department, Univ. Santa Maria, Brasil)
• Alessandro Vespignani (Indiana University and Univ. Paris Sud, France)
• Jérome Weiss (CNRS, Grenoble, France)
• Michael Zaiser (Dep. Mechanical Engineering, Univ. Edinbourgh, UK)

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