Session A39: Focus Session: Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects

8:00 AM–11:00 AM, Monday, March 10, 2008
Morial Convention Center - 231

Sponsoring Unit: GSNP
Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract: A39.00004 : On the statistical physics of folding and crumpling

8:36 AM–9:12 AM

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Author:

  Arezki Boudaoud
    (LPS, CNRS/Ecole Normale Superieure)

Unfolding a ball of crumpled paper reveals numerous ridges with a wide distribution of sizes. How can we describe the statistics of sizes and energies? Can we understand this system using the tools of statistical physics? During my talk, I will review the various experimental and theoretical approaches that we used to tackle these questions, which are typical of glasses and granular media.