Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Nonlinear dynamics of granular metamaterials, acoustic metamaterials and mechanical structures : solitary wave propagation, nonlinear localized modes and resonances, multistability...
• Applications of  nonlinear acoustic metamaterials to vibration and shock mitigation, acoustic filtering and lensing, energy redirection and harvesting,…
• Impacts and vibrations in granular media and multibody systems : experiments, physical and numerical modeling, effective medium properties, multiple impact laws, nonsmooth models…
• Analysis of nonlinear waves in discrete mechanical systems through bifurcation theory, modulation theory, variational methods,…
• Industrial applications