This is an announcement from an alumna of the IGPAS Class of 2022, Dr. Sonia Mahmoudi, who is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at AIMR.

Workshop Title: Mathematics & Physics of Entangled Metamaterials
https://www.wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp/GTF2025/
If you are interested in the topics of soft matters, metamaterials and polymers, please join us!

- Date: October 6 (Monday) to October 9 (Thursday) 2025 [Monday and Tuesday: full day - Wednesday and Thursday: morning only]
- Format: Hybrid
- Onsite Venue: TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity 3F, Lecture Theater, Katahira Campus, Tohoku University, Sendai
- Access: https://www.tfc.tohoku.ac.jp/about_us/contact_and_access.html
- Online Venue: Zoom
- Event Official Language: English
- Registration form [Deadline: September 15th 2025]: https://forms.gle/fLVz36qWfDgYZfoSA
- Additional activities form (excursion and party) [Deadline : October 1st 2025]: https://forms.gle/eTkeHwg6JcnE11yE6

This workshop will gather researchers from various disciplines and include invited lectures, contributed talks, and craft activities. Our focus will be on exploring the connections between mathematics, physics and chemistry in filamentous and fibrous (meta) materials such as polymers and soft matters, textiles and more.

[Confirmed invited speakers]
Tim Chen (University of Houston)
Michael Dimitriyev (Texas A&M University)
Tatsuki Hayama (Keio University)
Katsuya Inoue (Hiroshima University)
Sofia Lambropoulou (National Technical University of Athens)
Yasumasa Nishiura (Tohoku University)
Vanessa Sanchez (Rice University)

Participation fees for lunch, excursion, and dinner, if apply: ¥1000

This workshop is part of the research program "The theory of periodic tangles and their interdisciplinary applications": https://www.tfc.tohoku.ac.jp/junior-research-program/program/8008.html

- Contact & Inquiry: periodic.tangles@gmail.com