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The central aim of this Project is fundamental research on the macroscopic behavior of matter out of equilibrium from an experimental, numerical and theoretical point of view. Since matter involves a large number of particles, several time and length scales are involved in non-equilibrium processes, and therefore different tools are used in its study.

We will address phenomena occurring at macroscopic scales using a continuum description. Several research problems are listed in our "research page". In general we are interested in some generic or universal behavior of out of equilibrium systems (like front propagation, localized structure dynamics, turbulent dynamics etc) and in the behavior of elastic solids in particular in elastic sheets under constrain and in fracture propagation.

We are also interested in a more microscopic description where the discrete nature of matter is important. In particular we focus our research in the description of granular matter under different non-equilibrium situations. We also study some simple models of non-equilibrium systems where the discrete nature of the particles is considered (atomistic dislocation models, atomistic gas models, etc).

In our research we emphasize the dynamical aspect of non-equilibrium process, the appearance of singularities in their description and the special role of geometry.