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6 lectures on:Surface and volumetric growth; non-Euclidean growth; micro-displacement tensor; incompatibility and residual stress; vertex models; biological growth; solidification; additive manufacturing.

6 lectures on:Chemo-mechanical models of swelling in soft heterogeneous materials; coupling elasticity with solvent transport; transient swelling instabilities and wrinkling; optimisation of growth metrics for programmable bio-inspired shape change.

6 lectures on:Mechanical instabilities in elastic sheets (buckling, wrinkling, creasing); emergent continuum mechanics of epithelial tissues from coarse-grained discrete models; applications to epithelial morphogenesis: biophysics of gastrulation and of

6 lectures on: Dimensional reduction of morphoelastic solids (energy- and equilibrium-based); nonlinear plate and shell theories; snapping and morphing in slender structures; vesicle formation in non-Euclidean shells; stimuli responsive plates theory to m

6 lectures on:Mechanosensing and active stress generation in cells; active nematics and defect dynamics in tissues and bacterial colonies; flows, turbulence and confinement-driven patterning; applications to epithelial morphogenesis, collective cell migr

6 lectures on:Residual stress in morphogenesis, nonlinear elasticity, multiplicative decomposition, growth laws, thermodynamic restrictions, incompatibility, homeostatic stress, geometric elasticity, Ricci curvature, Drosophila wing disc, multicellular s