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Explore the complex physics of porous media through this 42-minute conference talk examining how holes and void spaces influence material behavior. Delve into the intersection of soft matter physics and geophysics as the speaker investigates Earth materials like soil, mud, ice, and rocks that exist in transitional states between solid and fluid depending on timescales. Learn about key phenomena including glassy dynamics, strain localization, memory encoding in microstructure, active matter, and complex yielding behaviors. Discover how recent research reveals that frontiers in geophysics are simultaneously frontiers in soft matter physics, and understand the novel challenges presented by the unique mixtures, excitations, geometries, and scales associated with soft Earth problems. Gain insights into how combining these interdisciplinary fields may lead to significant advances in both areas, with applications to understanding landslides, earthquakes, erosion, glaciers, and exotic transport phenomena in earth materials.
