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2024
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Séminaire PMMH - Nino Araújo (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Vendredi 5 juillet de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Self-folding kirigami at the microscale
Three-dimensional shells can be obtained from the spontaneous self-folding of two-dimensional templates of interconnected panels, called nets. To design self-folding, one first needs to identify what are the nets that fold into the desired structure. In principle, different nets can fold into the same (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alexis Mérigaud - IFPEN
Vendredi 28 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Predicting ocean waves in real-time
Ocean waves are usually predicted in a meteorological sense, from hourly to weekly time scales. In this talk, we cover the much lesser-known topic of real-time ocean wave forecasting, which consists in predicting accurately the second-by-second motion of the sea surface, a ship or another floating structure, up to (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Ko Okumura (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo)
Vendredi 14 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
A hydrodynamic analog of critical phenomena : an uncountably infinite number of universality classes
When a solid object starts falling into a viscous fluid from air-liquid interface, air is entrained into the liquid and eventually detaches from the solid. Such detachment could occur with or without topological change. Recently, it was found that the former case (i.e., breakup, a form of singular transitions) is (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Ko Okumura (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo)
Vendredi 14 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
A hydrodynamic analog of critical phenomena : an uncountably infinite number of universality classes
When a solid object starts falling into a viscous fluid from air-liquid interface, air is entrained into the liquid and eventually detaches from the solid. Such detachment could occur with or without topological change. Recently, it was found that the former case (i.e., breakup, a form of singular transitions) is (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Frederic Dias - University College Dublin
Vendredi 7 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Le projet HIGHWAVE sur le déferlement des vagues et sa station de mesure et d'observation en Irlande
Situé aux frontières de l'ingénierie côtière et océanique, de la science du systeme Terre, des statistiques et de la mécanique des fluides, le projet HIGHWAVE propose une approche interdisciplinaire pour mieux comprendre le déferlement des vagues. Le but ultime du projet est de fournir un nouveau modèle de vagues capable (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - François Petrelis (ENS)
Vendredi 31 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Earthquake statistical properties : an explanation for the distribution of magnitude and for the existence of aftershocks
Earthquakes in nature follow several statistical properties. In particular, the distribution of energy released by an earthquake (Gutenberg-Richter's law) and the frequency of aftershocks after a large event (Omori's law) are both power-laws. By studying several earthquake models, we have shown that the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Etienne Jambon-Puillet, LadhyX
Vendredi 24 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Pendant drops on the underside of wet surfaces : growth, motion and solidification
Pendant drops spontaneously appear on the underside of wet surfaces through the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Due to their detrimental effect on coatings and their tendency to drip, several strategies have been developed to avoid their formation and rationalized with linear stability analysis. I will first briefly (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Louis-Alexandre Couston (ENS Lyon)
Vendredi 17 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
What we know and don't know about the ocean circulation and ice melting around Antarctica
The Antarctic ice sheet is losing mass increasingly rapidly and could contribute several tens of centimetres of sea-level rise by 2100. In this presentation I will review our understanding of the southern ocean circulation, which (we know) is controlling ice melting around Antarctica and driving the retreat of the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Louis-Alexandre Couston (ENS Lyon)
Vendredi 17 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
What we know and don't know about the ocean circulation and ice melting around Antarctica
The Antarctic ice sheet is losing mass increasingly rapidly and could contribute several tens of centimetres of sea-level rise by 2100. In this presentation I will review our understanding of the southern ocean circulation, which (we know) is controlling ice melting around Antarctica and driving the retreat of the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Karen Mulleners (EPFL)
Vendredi 3 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Getting smarter overnight : how automated experiments help unwind unsteady vortex-dominated flows
Abstract : Typical unsteady vortex-dominated flows like those involved in bio-inspired propulsion, unsteady airfoil separation, and vortex-induced vibrations can be prohibitively expensive to simulate and impossible to measure comprehensively. They are inherently non-linear, often involve moving boundaries, (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Karen Mulleners (EPFL)
Vendredi 3 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Getting smarter overnight : how automated experiments help unwind unsteady vortex-dominated flows
Abstract : Typical unsteady vortex-dominated flows like those involved in bio-inspired propulsion, unsteady airfoil separation, and vortex-induced vibrations can be prohibitively expensive to simulate and impossible to measure comprehensively. They are inherently non-linear, often involve moving boundaries, (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Sara Puijalon (LEHNA – CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
Vendredi 26 avril de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Interactions between submerged aquatic vegetation and flow : applications of ecohydraulics and biomechanics to ecological questions
Interactions between submerged aquatic vegetation and flow in rivers and streams are complex. Flowing water induces hydrodynamic stress on aquatic plants colonizing these habitats, which can, in some cases, cause mechanical failures such as breakage and uprooting. Additionally, aquatic plant beds have a (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Sara Puijalon (LEHNA – CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
Vendredi 26 avril de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Interactions between submerged aquatic vegetation and flow : applications of ecohydraulics and biomechanics to ecological questions
Interactions between submerged aquatic vegetation and flow in rivers and streams are complex. Flowing water induces hydrodynamic stress on aquatic plants colonizing these habitats, which can, in some cases, cause mechanical failures such as breakage and uprooting. Additionally, aquatic plant beds have a (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Benjamin Guiselin - ENS Lyon
Vendredi 12 avril de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Emergence of spontaneous collective oscillations in dense Human crowds
Massive crowd gatherings form some of the most dangerous and unpredictable environments [1]. However, we lack quantitative characterizations of their dynamics and the heuristic principles used to explain and predict their motion remain elusive. In this talk, I will present our analysis of the dynamics of thousands (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Benjamin Guiselin - ENS Lyon
Vendredi 12 avril de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Emergence of spontaneous collective oscillations in dense Human crowds
Massive crowd gatherings form some of the most dangerous and unpredictable environments [1]. However, we lack quantitative characterizations of their dynamics and the heuristic principles used to explain and predict their motion remain elusive. In this talk, I will present our analysis of the dynamics of thousands (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Olivier Plé (LOCIE-CNRS)
Vendredi 5 avril de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Rammed earth : A complex medium
Rammed earth is a complex material which is attractive nowadays in construction because of its small environmental footprint. However, this material has specific characteristics, especially : its sensitivity to water, its low mechanical static capacity but a fairly good seismic performance, its high thermal (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Olivier Plé (LOCIE-CNRS)
Vendredi 5 avril de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Rammed earth : A complex medium
Rammed earth is a complex material which is attractive nowadays in construction because of its small environmental footprint. However, this material has specific characteristics, especially : its sensitivity to water, its low mechanical static capacity but a fairly good seismic performance, its high thermal (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alex Hansen (NTNU Norvège)
Vendredi 29 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Séminaire d'Alex Hansen (NTNU, Trondheim, Norvège)
The co-moving velocity, a new concept in immiscible two-phase flow in porous media Alex Hansen PoreLab, Department of Physics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Since 1936, relative permeability theory has been the leading description of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media at scales much larger than the pore scale. (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alex Hansen (NTNU Norvège)
Vendredi 29 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Séminaire d'Alex Hansen (NTNU, Trondheim, Norvège)
The co-moving velocity, a new concept in immiscible two-phase flow in porous media Alex Hansen PoreLab, Department of Physics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Since 1936, relative permeability theory has been the leading description of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media at scales much larger than the pore scale. (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Dominic Vella (University of Oxford)
Vendredi 22 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Drops with deformable boundaries : Flat tops, Locomotion and Ageing
A liquid droplet placed on a rigid, planar surface has a captivating simplicity : its surface is a spherical cap and remains in equilibrium. In this talk, I'll show that the addition of a deformable boundary leads to a range of new phenomena : evaporating droplets with an elastic skin may develop flat tops, while (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Dominic Vella (University of Oxford)
Vendredi 22 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Drops with deformable boundaries : Flat tops, Locomotion and Ageing
A liquid droplet placed on a rigid, planar surface has a captivating simplicity : its surface is a spherical cap and remains in equilibrium. In this talk, I'll show that the addition of a deformable boundary leads to a range of new phenomena : evaporating droplets with an elastic skin may develop flat tops, while (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jacques Fattaccioli (PASTEUR, ENS)
Vendredi 15 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Bacteria on high fat diets cooperate to stay fit
During the consumption of alkanes, Alcanivorax borkumensis, a bacteria commonly found in oil spill areas, form a biofilm around oil droplets to consume them. The role this plays during degradation remains unclear. Using in-situ microfluidic tracking, we identify a shift in biofilm morphology that depends on (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jacques Fattaccioli (PASTEUR, ENS)
Vendredi 15 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Bacteria on high fat diets cooperate to stay fit
During the consumption of alkanes, Alcanivorax borkumensis, a bacteria commonly found in oil spill areas, form a biofilm around oil droplets to consume them. The role this plays during degradation remains unclear. Using in-situ microfluidic tracking, we identify a shift in biofilm morphology that depends on (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Min-Hui LI (Chimie ParisTech )
Vendredi 8 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Electroactive Bi-functional Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) show promising potentials as smart actuators, for example, those contracting/expanding linearly like mammalian muscles.[1] Direct heating and light illumination are the most used activation mode in LCE actuators because LCEs are based on thermotropic or phototropic liquid (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Min-Hui LI (Chimie ParisTech )
Vendredi 8 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Electroactive Bi-functional Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) show promising potentials as smart actuators, for example, those contracting/expanding linearly like mammalian muscles.[1] Direct heating and light illumination are the most used activation mode in LCE actuators because LCEs are based on thermotropic or phototropic liquid (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Bérengère Abou (MSC, Univ. Paris Cité)
Vendredi 1er mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Intracellular rheology of red blood cells
The characterisation of erythrocyte stiffness and its heterogeneity in a blood sample is a key parameter for the description of erythrocyte pathologies. I will present a method for investigating the intracellular rheology of red blood cells and the heterogeneity of the population using molecular rotors. These are (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Bérengère Abou (MSC, Univ. Paris Cité)
Vendredi 1er mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Intracellular rheology of red blood cells
The characterisation of erythrocyte stiffness and its heterogeneity in a blood sample is a key parameter for the description of erythrocyte pathologies. I will present a method for investigating the intracellular rheology of red blood cells and the heterogeneity of the population using molecular rotors. These are (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jon Otto Fossum (Dept of Physics , NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
Vendredi 16 février de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Clay minerals as 2D natural nanomaterials for sustainable applications
Clay minerals are among the most abundant and sustainable on earth, and due to this and their low-cost they are found in many traditional applications that exploit their physical and chemical properties, including their mechanical stability, their non-toxicity and in effect their underlying 2D nanoscale character. (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jon Otto Fossum (Dept of Physics , NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
Vendredi 16 février de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Clay minerals as 2D natural nanomaterials for sustainable applications
Clay minerals are among the most abundant and sustainable on earth, and due to this and their low-cost they are found in many traditional applications that exploit their physical and chemical properties, including their mechanical stability, their non-toxicity and in effect their underlying 2D nanoscale character. (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Thomas Salez (LOMA, Bordeaux)
Vendredi 9 février de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Brownian motion in confinement
Brownian motion near interfaces is a canonical situation, encountered from fundamental biophysics to nanoscale engineering. Using a combination of experimental, theoretical and numerical methods, we study the thermally-induced random tridimensional trajectories of individual microparticles, within salty aqueous (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Sophie Marbach (Phenix, Sorbonne Université)
Vendredi 2 février de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
The Countoscope : Measuring Dynamics by Counting Particles in Boxes
Any imaging technique is limited by its field of view. As objects or particles move in and out of the observation field, tracking their motion, especially over long periods, becomes challenging. In addition, available analysis techniques face challenges reconstructing trajectories in dense and heterogeneous (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Sylvain Lefebvre (INRIA Nancy)
Vendredi 26 janvier de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Controlling the appearance and deformation of 3D printed objects.
This seminar will focus on how to design shapes and plates that exhibit specific behaviors thanks to a precise control of their fabrication process. Specifically, by orienting the deposition trajectories of a fused filament 3D printer, we introduce anisotropies that impact the observed properties of the final (...) -
Séminaire PMMH, Joshua Dijksman (UVA)
Vendredi 19 janvier de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Covalent adaptable polymer networks provide mechanical tunability via molecular and mesoscopic lengthscales
Polymeric materials are ubiquitous in society but also present a large source of waste. There is an ongoing search for polymeric materials that can be better tuned and recycled. One class of polymers that came into the spotlight for this purpose are so-called covalent adaptable polymer networks. Such polymer (...) -
Séminaire PMMH, Joshua Dijksman (UVA)
Vendredi 19 janvier de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Covalent adaptable polymer networks provide mechanical tunability via molecular and mesoscopic lengthscales
Polymeric materials are ubiquitous in society but also present a large source of waste. There is an ongoing search for polymeric materials that can be better tuned and recycled. One class of polymers that came into the spotlight for this purpose are so-called covalent adaptable polymer networks. Such polymer (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Santiago Benevides (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Vendredi 12 janvier de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Uncovering complex behavior in turbulence and sediment transport through simplified models
Although the dynamics of a turbulent fluid and of grains being transported downriver might not have much in common, it's the qualities they share that make them challenging subjects to study. Both contain many interacting components and nonlinearities, producing a chaotic, multi-scale, out-of-equilibrium system (...)
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Séminaire PMMH - Nino Araújo (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
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Séminaire PMMH - M. Mungan (Institute of Biological Physics, University of Cologne)
Vendredi 22 décembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Memory Formation in Driven Disordered Systems - Dead or Alive
Memory formation and ageing are abundant in many soft matter systems. The disorder underlying these systems gives rise to a rich energy landscape, consisting of a large number of metastable states. These landscapes are accompanied by a plethora of pathways, along which such systems can evolve when exposed to a (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - M. Mungan (Institute of Biological Physics, University of Cologne)
Vendredi 22 décembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Memory Formation in Driven Disordered Systems - Dead or Alive
Memory formation and ageing are abundant in many soft matter systems. The disorder underlying these systems gives rise to a rich energy landscape, consisting of a large number of metastable states. These landscapes are accompanied by a plethora of pathways, along which such systems can evolve when exposed to a (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Arthur Alexandre (EPFL)
Vendredi 15 décembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Dispersion in heterogeneous media : how boundaries shape transport properties
Identifying transport properties of tracer particles in heterogeneous media at large time and length scales has applications in wide range of physical systems including microfluidics, hydrology, chemical engineering or soft matter. The effective diffusivity is a crucial input for problems of mixing, sorting, (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Mathilde Reyssat, Gulliver (ESPCI)
Vendredi 8 décembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Swimming droplets under confinement
Artificial micro-swimmers have recently become a central field of research in soft-matter. A very promising and original type of swimmer developed in our team, consists in pure water droplet swimming in an oil phase containing micelles of surfactant. The droplet's activity comes from the formation of swollen (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Emanuela Del Gado (Georgetown University)
Vendredi 1er décembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Memory of shear flow in soft jammed materials
Cessation of flow in simple yield stress fluids results in a complex stress relaxation process that depends on the preceding flow conditions and leads to finite residual stresses. By complementing experiments with numerical simulations we gain new insight into the microscopic origin of these phenomena for jammed (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - François Peaudecerf, ETH Zürich
Vendredi 24 novembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Wall entrapment enhances bacterial chemotactic response to deposited aerosols in the microlayer
The sea surface microlayer is the thin layer of water separating the atmosphere from marine waters below. This typically half-millimeter-deep laminar layer mediates all gas exchange and receives all material deposited from the atmosphere, such as aerosol particles, before any transfer to deeper water can occur. (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Ruben Zakine (LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique)
Vendredi 17 novembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Socioeconomic agents as active matter and nucleation paths in active field theories
In this seminar, we will tackle two subjects whose common thread is active matter. In a first part, I will focus on a socio-economic occupation model in the spirit of the Sakoda-Schelling model, historically introduced to shed light on segregation dynamics among human groups. For a large class of decision rules (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Manuel Lorite Diez (Universidad de Granada)
Vendredi 10 novembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Three-dimensional coupling between freely falling bodies and their 3D wakes
Freely falling bodies in an initially quiescent fluid can exhibit many different path patterns depending on body geometry, size and weight. The characteristics of a given path are known to be strongly linked to the wake induced by the body. The study of path-wake interaction is relevant for many problems in (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Francisco Goio Castro (IPPT, Graz, Austria)
Vendredi 20 octobre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Approach to Deformable Granular Materials
The phenomenology of granular materials results from a complex interplay between various properties of their constituent elements. Shape, friction, size distribution and softness can all significantly affect the rheology of granular materials, and disentangling the individual contributions of these properties is (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jérôme Crassous (Institut de Physique de Rennes)
Vendredi 13 octobre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Filer et nouer, une histoire de friction
Les objets souples et très allongés peuvent s'assembler de multiples manières pour former des structures aussi diverses qu'un fil de laine, des tissus ou tricots, ou encore des nœuds. Nous discuterons durant ce séminaire le rôle clé que jouent les forces de friction dans la stabilité de ces objets. Dans un premier temps (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Valérie Vidal (ENS Lyon)
Vendredi 6 octobre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
From strange behavior to catastrophic events : A story of fluid migration in particle-laden fluids
"Work on problems you most enjoy. Strange things can happen on the way." This sentence from Walter Munk, world-renowned oceanographer (UCSD), may apply for all fields of science. In this talk, we will see that it is definitely true when working with fluid injection and migration in particle-laden fluids. Based on (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Eric Herbert (UPC)
Vendredi 29 septembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH - Stefano Aime (C3M, ESPCI)
Vendredi 22 septembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Everything flows… but how ? A unified state diagram for the yielding transition of soft glassy materials
“Everything flows…” could have said the Philosopher opening the fridge for breakfast. Indeed, soft glassy materials such as foams, creams, butter and mayonnaise can flow if we shake, push or spread them, while they stay firm and retain their shape like solids when we stop applying an external force. Such mechanically (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Véronique Dansereau (ISTerre, Grenoble)
Vendredi 15 septembre 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH - Gilles Montambaux (LPS, Orsay)
Vendredi 23 juin 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Comment l'eau est arrivée à Versailles : pièce en cinq actes
Comment l'eau est arrivée aux fontaines du château de Versailles ? Amateur passionné par cette question, j'ai exploré les vestiges des rigoles et des aqueducs, aériens ou souterrains, presque intacts, souvent méconnus et parfois insolites. Leur conception utilisait des techniques élaborées par quelques-uns des plus (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Céline Gabillet, Ecole Navale Brest & ENSAM
Vendredi 16 juin 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Les bulles et l'hydrodynamique navale
De nombreuses bulles sont présentes dans l'océan, en particulier dans la couche supérieure. En s'accumulant dans les zones d'écoulement de basse pression, les bulles peuvent avoir un impact sur les structures marines immergées à faible profondeur, telles que les systèmes propulsifs et les systèmes d'énergies marines (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Orencio Duran (Univ. Texas)
Vendredi 9 juin 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Hydrodynamic Origin of Terrestrial “Impact” Ripples
Wind-blown sand surfaces on Earth, Mars, and other planetary bodies are covered by multiscale bedforms. The long-standing consensus has been that meter- to kilometer-scale dunes and decimeter-scale ripples on Earth emerge via two distinct physical mechanisms. Dunes evolve from a flat sand bed due to a hydrodynamic (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alain Goriely, University of Oxford
Vendredi 2 juin 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
From neurons and sunflowers to elephant trunks : the fascinating dynamics of smart active filaments.
The world around us, both natural and man-made, is filled with structures that respond to external stimuli and adapt their internal structures to perform specific functions. For example, plants have the ability to sense changes in their environment, such as changes in gravity or light, and modify their shape (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Tadeusz Sliwa, Université de Bourgogne
Vendredi 26 mai 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Vie, œuvre et héritage de Joseph Fourier
Nous fêterons bientôt le bicentenaire des Remarques générales sur les températures du globe terrestre et des espaces planétaires parues aux Annales de Chimie et de Physique en 1824, qui précéda le Mémoire sur la température du globe terrestre et des espaces planétaires en 1827. Joseph Fourier est inconnu du grand public et (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Florian Poydenot (ENS)
Vendredi 12 mai 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
A gravity driven inverse cascade controls the size distribution of raindrops
The size distribution of raindrops follows a particularly simple form, measured over the last century. It is exponential, and the average diameter of raindrops increases with the intensity of the rain. However, this relationship is still poorly explained. The dependence of the mean diameter on intensity implies (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Luis Gómez-Nava (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Vendredi 21 avril 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Collective and synchronized motion in animal groups : from sheep to fish
In this talk I will present two studies of collective behavior observed in animal groups. In the first one, we studied the spontaneous and intermittent collective displacements observed in small groups of sheep (Ovis aries Linnaeus). We performed experiments and noticed that these animals form files while moving (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Christophe Gissinger, LPENS, PSL
Vendredi 14 avril 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Transition sous-critique à la turbulence et transport non-diffusif en astrophysique
Omniprésente, la turbulence est responsable d'une grande partie des processus de mélange et de transport observés dans la nature et dans les écoulements industriels. La diffusion d'éléments chimiques, le transfert de chaleur ou le transport de moment cinétique au sein d'un écoulement nécessitent donc une bonne (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Giuseppe Pucci, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Calabria
Vendredi 7 avril 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Capillary surfers and spinners on a vibrating liquid bath
Capillary surfers are wave-driven particles at a fluid interface that have been recently introduced by Ho et al. (arXiv:2102.11694v3, 2023) and described theoretically by Oza et al. (arXiv:2301.05767, 2023). A surfer is a hydrophobic, millimetric solid particle, the bottom surface of which is pinned to the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Franck Vernerey (Boulder Univ.)
Vendredi 31 mars 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Active Mechanics of Cohesive Biological Aggregates : -The Case of Fire-Ant Swarms-
A majority of soft living materials owe their complex mechanical behavior to an underlying network structure. Despite this inherent complexity, the physical structure of these materials can often be conceptualized as dynamic physical networks, where nodes and connections are governed by simple rules. An advantage (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Angela Limare (IPGP)
Vendredi 24 mars 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
The Earth's mantle in a microwave oven : thermal convection driven by a heterogeneous distribution of heat sources
Past laboratory experiments of thermo chemical convection have dealt with systems involving fluids with different intrinsic densities and viscosities in a Rayleigh-Bénard setup. Although these experiments have greatly improved our understanding of the Earth's mantle dynamics, they neglect a fundamental component of (...) -
Séminaire PMMH Jean Cappello (ULB, Bruxelles)
Vendredi 17 mars 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Bioinspired shape shifting of liquid-infused ribbed sheets
At small scales, capillary forces can deform flexible structures. The aggregation of wet hair into bundles is a daily example. With the miniaturization of technologies, these capillary forces have become important in engineering since they can lead to the catastrophic collapse of structures obtained by lithography (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Patrice Meunier (IRPHE)
Vendredi 10 mars 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Geoinspired bioreactors : from Earth's precession to stem cell production
Inspired by the precession of the Earth, a new bladeless mixer has been designed, which consists of a tilted and rotating cylinder. I will first present fundamental studies on the transition to turbulence in such rotating flows. At specific aspect ratios, the resonance of eigen modes creates a strong overturning (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Agnese Seminara, University of Genoa
Vendredi 17 février 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
A fish with legs and alternation strategies for navigating turbulence
Sea robins are fishes with sensory appendages (“legs”) that they use to walk and to dig live prey from within the substrate. Their preadation strategy is so effective that they are often followed by other fish trying to steal their prey. I will discuss a set of behavioral experiments suggesting that these animals (...) -
SEMINAIRE SIMM / PMMH - Cari Dutcher (University of Minnesota)
Mardi 14 février 2023 de 14h00 à 15h00 - Charpak
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Séminaire PMMH - André Estevez-Torres et Guillaume Sarfati - Laboratoire Jean Perrin, SU et CNRS, Paris
Vendredi 10 février 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
La recherche face à l'anthropocène : retour d'expérience du bilan carbone du laboratoire Jean Perrin
Les années se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas. Les records de température, été comme hiver, ne cessent d'être battus et les conséquences sur les écosystèmes et le vivant sont de plus en plus constatées, qualitativement par tout un chacun, et quantitativement par une science compilée dans les rapports successifs du GIEC et (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Pascal Hersen (Institut Curie)
Vendredi 3 février 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Playing with cellular functions and genetic circuits in real time
Gene expression plays a central role in the orchestration of cellular processes. In the past years, we have developed several methods to dynamically perturb, manipulate and control genetic circuit and cellular functions in yeast and bacteria using microfluidics and optogenetics. We developed an experimental method (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Valentin LAPLAUD (Ladhyx Polytechnique)
Vendredi 20 janvier 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Growth and mechanics of 'plants on a chip'
Plant growth is a complex process depending in part on the hydraulics and mechanics of the plant cell, that has been modeled by Lockhart (1965) and Ortega (1985) using a description still used today. To study it experimentally at the cell and organism level we developed a microfluidic system to follow several (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Bruno Andreotti (LPENS)
Vendredi 13 janvier 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
SARS-CoV-2 at the crossroads between epidemiology, biology and aerosol turbulence
Five epidemic waves have occurred in 2022, with the second autumn wave (BQ.1.1) currently in decline. The 2023 waves will be made up of a soup of sub-variants showing an evolutionary convergence giving them an immune escape in the upper respiratory tract (XBB.1.5 will become the dominant strain in january). I will (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Serge Berthier (INSP)
Vendredi 6 janvier 2023 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Natural Photonics
Photonics, the art of manipulating light, is a relatively recent science. To manage light, to confine it, to slow it down, to orient it... you have to put yourself on its scale, that of the wavelength, that is to say, to create periodic structures (like an electromagnetic wave) who's the period is of the order of (...)
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Séminaire PMMH - M. Mungan (Institute of Biological Physics, University of Cologne)
2022
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Séminaire PMMH - Antoine Gaillard, University of Amsterdam
Vendredi 16 décembre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Applications and rheological characterisation of polymer solutions
Polymer solutions, such as saliva or egg white, belong to an important category of non-Newtonian liquids called viscoelastic liquids. Such liquids are known to exhibit a strong “strain-hardening” behaviour in extensional flows, meaning that strong stresses can arise due to the stretching and progressive unravelling (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Emmanuèle Helfer (CINAM, Marseille)
Vendredi 9 décembre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Biomimicking red blood cell filtration by the spleen
Blood circulation in our vascular system is a physical tour de force. To distribute oxygen throughout the body, Red blood cells (RBCs) continuously travel through the microcirculation, through thin capillaries that are smaller than their size, and are thus highly deformable. Their deformability is periodically (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Virgile Thiévenaz INRAE, PIAF, Clermont-Ferrand
Vendredi 2 décembre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Pinch-off of complex suspensions drops
Many fluids of our everyday life, from paint to concrete, actually contain solid particles suspended in a liquid. Applications such as inkjet printing require the fragmentation of such suspensions into droplets. Depending on the scale at which one looks at it, a suspension may seem homogeneous or heterogeneous. (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Frédéric Moisy (FAST, Univ. Paris Saclay)
Vendredi 25 novembre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1Sillages, vagues et vent
Le livre "L'impermanence du Monde - La physique de l'éphémère" invite à une promenade à travers quelques phénomènes naturels régis par la physique des fluides : Pourquoi les rivières dessinen(...)
Sillages, vagues et vent
Le livre "L'impermanence du Monde - La physique de l'éphémère" invite à une promenade à travers quelques phénomènes naturels régis par la physique des fluides : Pourquoi les rivières dessinent-elles des méandres ? D'où viennent les lignes lumineuses au fond des piscines ? Combien de temps faut-il pour façonner un galet ? (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Maylis Landeau IPGP
Vendredi 18 novembre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Instability, mixing and fragmentation in planetary collisions
The Earth formed by high-energy collisions between planetary embryos. I will present laboratory experiments on the fluid dynamics of these collisions. I will show that the impact of a liquid volume onto a liquid pool reproduces the cratering observed in numerical simulations and at the surface of planets. Unlike (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Sergei Nechaev (LPTMS, CNRS - Université Paris-Saclay)
Vendredi 21 octobre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Anomalous scaling in stretching of a fractal polymer around a disc
While stretching of a polymer along a flat surface is hardly different from the classical Pincus problem of pulling chain ends in free space, the role of curved geometry in conformational statistics of the stretched chain is an exciting open question. We use scaling analysis and computer simulations to examine [1] (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Laurent Seuront (LOG, Wimereux))
Vendredi 14 octobre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
The Behavioral Mandala : a new step towards the understanding of the behavioural complexity behind invertebrates and vertebrates foraging strategies
Movement is a fundamental characteristic of life. It determines the fate of individuals through its influence on reproduction, feeding and survival, and ultimately populations, communities, and ecosystems. An important open question lies in the quantification of both the geometric and stochastic components of (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Lydie STARON (Institut d'Alembert)
Vendredi 7 octobre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Cohesion-induced weakening ? Clues from the failure of a cohesive granular step
The failure of 2D numerical cohesive granular steps collapsing under gravity is simulated for a large range of cohesion. Focusing on the cumulative displacement of the grains, we establish a sensible criterion for capturing the failure characteristics. We are able to locate the failure in time and to identify the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - (Benjamin Favier, CNRS, IRPHE, Marseille)
Vendredi 30 septembre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Interactions between thermal convection and a melting front
A pure and incompressible material is confined between two plates such that it is heated from below and cooled from above. When its melting temperature is comprised between these two imposed temperatures, an interface separating liquid and solid phases appears. Depending on the initial conditions, freezing or (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Blaise Delmotte, LadHyX
Vendredi 23 septembre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Unexpected trapping of active particles and efficient sorting of flexible fibers with obstacles
The motion of active or elastic particles through structured environments is ubiquitous in nature and industrial applications. Their dynamics result from the complex interplay between internal elastic stresses, activity, contact forces, thermal fluctuations and hydrodynamic interactions with the obstacles. In (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Leonid Berlyand, Penn State
Vendredi 16 septembre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH - M.C. Jullien, U. Rennes 1
Vendredi 9 septembre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Phase separation of an ionic liquid mixture assisted by a temperature gradient
Ionic liquids have remarkable properties and are commonly harnessed for green chemistry, lubrication, and energy applications. In this presentation, we report a thermoresponsive ionic liquid (IL) solution which has the property of phase separating above a critical temperature, an interesting feature for the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Anshuman Pal, University of Chicago, US
Vendredi 8 juillet 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Faceted wrinkling at a contracted curved boundary : isometry and hysteretic wavelength selection
Thin elastic sheets are fascinating because they can show a rich variety of patterns and multi-scale physics from the interplay of only a few basic ingredients, viz., stretching, bending, and geometry. In this talk, through the behaviour of a simple system of a circular annulus contracted at the inner boundary, we (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Gilles Tessier (Sorbonne Univ.)
Vendredi 1er juillet 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Measuring and shaping the phase of light : new tools to study materials and biological systems
Spatially-resolved techniques to control and image the phase of light have deeply transformed microscopy. In this talk, I will briefly clarify the notion of optical phase and present two phase-sensitive techniques, both offering high sensitivity and 3D capabilities. Using holography, individual magnetic nanorods (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Al Crosby (U. Mass. Amherst)
Vendredi 24 juin 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Autonomously Moving and Assembling Soft Matter Systems
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Séminaire PMMH - Maxime Hubert, FAU, Université d'Erlangen-Nürnberg, ALL
Vendredi 17 juin 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Mesoscale strategies of collective transport on deformable liquid interfaces
Transport at interfaces is crucial in multiple areas of physics and biology and is observed across a wide range of length scales. In the strategies used in such dynamics, the role of hydrodynamic interactions, interface deformations, and the presence of other agents at the interface provide the means to mediate (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Ludovic Moreau, ISTerre Grenoble
Vendredi 10 juin 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Analysis of the micro-seismicity in sea ice with deep learning and Bayesian inference. Application to the monitoring of sea ice thickness, density, and mechanical properties
In the context of global warming, monitoring the thickness and mechanical properties of sea ice is a major challenge in modern climatology. In particular, the heavy logistical constraints of polar environments, and the lack of accuracy of satellite remote monitoring methods, are obstacles to improving climate (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jacques Treiner
Vendredi 3 juin 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Les trajectoires les plus pessimistes du GIEC ne sont pas réalistes : bonne nouvelle ?
L'anticipation du changement climatique repose en partie sur les scénarios d'émissions de gaz à effet de serre utilisés par le Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'étude du climat (GIEC). Il apparait que les réserves de combustibles fossiles estimées par le World energy outlook et le Statistical review of world (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Bruno Moulia (INRAE)
Vendredi 20 mai 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
The dimensionless numbers of the shaping of plant axes and crowns through tropism and elasticity : a physicist approach of the biological regulation of plant morphogenesis.
The shape of plant stems and/or of the whole crown of isolated trees are conspicuous traits of each species, while at the same time-varying a lot depending on the environment in which the plant grew. A major process involved in this shaping is stem tropism, i.e. oriented growth directed by external clues. In plant (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Olivier Devauchelle (IPGP, Paris)
Vendredi 13 mai 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Swimming in a wave field
When a bath of silicon oil vibrates vertically, a droplet of the same oil can bounce indefinitely on its surface [1]. As it does so, it generates a Faraday wave around itself, which then pushes the droplet across the surface. Guided by this wave, the droplet interacts with its own trajectory, with the boundaries, (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alexandre Nicolas (U. Lyon 1)
Vendredi 22 avril 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Physical modelling of pedestrian dynamics : Make your way through the crowd !
Physics has constantly been pushing back its boundaries, so much so that active systems of biological interest have come under its scrutiny in the past decades. At present, among its outermost interfaces, research into the dynamics of pedestrian crowds aspires to provide physical insight into issues of major (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jens Eggers, U. of Bristol, UK
Vendredi 15 avril 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Theory of bubble tips in strong viscous flows
A free surface, placed in a strong viscous flow (such that viscous forces overwhelm surface tension), often develops ends with very sharp tips. For example, observe a bubble in a shampoo bottle, turned upside down. We shown that the axisymmetric shape of the ends, non-dimensionalized by the tip curvature,is (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Luca Cipelletti (Univ. Montpellier)
Vendredi 8 avril 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH - Stefan Catheline (INSERM, Univ. Lyon1)
Vendredi 1er avril 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Wave elastography applied to soft tissues and membrane
Elastography, sometimes referred as seismology of the human body, is an imaging modality now implemented on medical ultrasound systems, on MRI and recently in optical coherence tomography devices. It allows to measure shear wave speeds within soft tissues and gives a tomography reconstruction of the shear (...) -
Séminaire PMMH : Raphaël Jeanneret, LPENS
Vendredi 25 mars 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH - Arnaud Lazarus (Institut d'Alembert, Sorbonne Université)
Vendredi 18 mars 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
New insights on the dynamic stability of time-periodic systems
Periodically time-varying systems are a class of mathematical problems that underlie many important phenomena and applications in physics, such as parametric instabilities, acoustic tweezers, mass spectrometers and Paul traps or any Floquet engineered systems in Quantum Mechanics. Eventually, the mechanics (...) -
Séminaire PMMH : Valentin Leroy, MSC, Université de Paris
Vendredi 11 mars 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH, Marianne Grognot (LBE - ESPCI)
Vendredi 11 février 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
A multiscale chemotaxis assay to unravel how motile bacteria navigate their environment(s)
Flagellated bacteria swim by rotating one or several flagella ; motility alone results in a random walk, but the flagella's rotation can be influenced by an intracellular sensory system that enables cells to climb or descend chemical gradients, in a process called chemotaxis. Altogether, motility and chemotaxis (...) -
Séminaire PMMH Jasna Brujic
Vendredi 4 février 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH - Julian Talbot (LPTMC, Sorbonne Univ.)
Vendredi 21 janvier 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Statistics and Optimisation of Random Pan Stacking
The stacking of objects is a familiar operation. For example, a common conundrum of daily life is how to arrange a collection of pots and pans so that the stack will fit in a kitchen cupboard. Because of the varying form and convex nature of the pans, the height will vary depending on the order in which they are (...)
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Séminaire PMMH - Antoine Gaillard, University of Amsterdam
2021
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Séminaire PMMH - Varda Hagh (Univ. of Chicago)
Vendredi 10 décembre 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Free-then-freeze : transient learning degrees of freedom for introducing function in materials
Many protocols used in material design and training have a common theme : they introduce new “learning'' degrees of freedom, often by relaxing away existing constraints, and then evolve these degrees of freedom based on a rule that leads the material to a desired state at which point these learning degrees of (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Edouard Ravier (Université du Mans)
Vendredi 3 décembre 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
What can we learn from the experimental modelling of subglacial hydrology ?
The configuration and evolution of the hydrological system under ice sheets is a key control on ice flow dynamics, erosion, sedimentation and bed deformation. Due to the inaccessibility of the subglacial environment, the understanding of subglacial meltwater drainage and its interaction with the ice and the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Tom Witten (University of Chicago)
Vendredi 26 novembre 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Latent sculpture in a curved crease
Thin sheets have an inherent tendency to shape themselves. When forced, they seek to deform in a way that bends without stretching. Thus a crushed sheet shapes itself into a crumpled shape made of flat facets bounded by sharp edges. These sharp features fail to avoid stretching : the deformation energy of (...) -
Séminaire PMMH David Richard (Liphy, Grenoble)
Vendredi 12 novembre 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Using soft excitations to predict and understand plastic flow in disordered solids
Imposing an external driving, amorphous solids can flow via a succession of plastic rearrangement of localized particles. Numerous numerical and experimental studies have shown that loci of plastic instability in glasses are triggered by spatially localized soft spots in direct analogy with dislocations present in (...) -
Séminaire PMMH Rémi Carminati (Institut Langevin, ESPCI)
Vendredi 22 octobre 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Seeing through disordered scattering materials
The propagation of coherent light through a scattering medium produces speckle patterns in reflection and transmission. Despite the apparent randomness of the speckle patterns, a statistical correlation between the reflected and transmitted intensities survives even in the multiple scattering regime. This mutual (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Marco Faustini (LCMCP, Sorbonne Univ.)
Vendredi 15 octobre 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Evaporation-driven processes towards photonic colloidal assemblies
Developing patterning methods to obtain periodic and ordered colloidal films could open perspectives for their utilization in fields ranging from electronics, photonics, microfluidics or dew-harvesting (1). For instance, integrating porous nanoparticles (oxides or Metal-Organic Frameworks) in periodic structures (...) -
Séminaire PMMH Elim Hong (IBPS, Sorbonne Université)
Vendredi 24 septembre 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
The yin yang pathway in the aversive brain
The habenulo-interpeduncular (Hb-IPN) pathway is an evolutionarily conserved neural pathway mediating diverse pathophysiological behaviors including locomotion, fear, anxiety and nicotine addiction. The left and right habenular nuclei consists of hundreds of neurons that send long axons to project to its target, (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Valentina Di Santo (Stockholm University)
Vendredi 10 septembre 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
How fishes save energy : exploring biomechanical and physiological performance of locomotion
Swimming ability has contributed to the evolutionary success of fishes, and its mechanics have been studied extensively across groups. Fishes exhibit an astounding diversity of locomotor behaviors, from classic swimming with their body and fins to jumping, flying, walking, and collective behaviors such as (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Hillel Aharoni (Weizmann Inst.)
Vendredi 3 septembre 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
On wrinkles, and what they have to do with liquid crystals
A thin elastic sheet attached to a soft substrate often develops wrinkle patterns when subject to an external forcing or as a result of geometric incompatibility. Such patterns appear spontaneously in a variety of natural systems, ranging from plant tissues to drying paint and from milk skin to human skin. The (...) -
Séminaire PMMH Lucilla de Arcangelis (Univ. of Naples)
Vendredi 9 juillet 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Acoustic fluidization and remote earthquake triggering
Lucilla de Arcangelis, Eugenio Lippiello, Massimo Pica Ciamarra Engineering Department University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” Occasionally, a major earthquake can trigger additional events at distances up to 1000 km away. How that happens is a longstanding puzzle since the amplitude of the seismic waves (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Eva Adnan Kanso (Univ. of Southern California)
Vendredi 25 juin 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
One Fish, Two Fish
I will tell two short stories of fish hydrodynamics. First, I will argue, based on biological observations and mathematical models, that fish that actively flap their tail in concert with passive hydrodynamic forces can simultaneously improve swimming speed and efficiency. Second, I will show that passive (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Thomas Paehtz (Zhejiang University)
Vendredi 11 juin 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Unified model of sediment transport threshold and rate across subaqueous bedload, windblown sand, and windblown snow
Loose sedimentary grains cover much of the wind-blown (i.e., aeolian) and water-worked (i.e., fluvial) sedimentary surfaces of Earth and other planetary bodies. To predict how such surfaces evolve in response to aeolian and fluvial flows, one needs to understand the rate at which sediment is transported for given (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Philippe Gondret (FAST, Univ. Paris-Saclay)
Vendredi 30 avril 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Tsunami generation by landslides : From laboratory experiments to geophysical events
Tsunami waves can arise from significant geological events such as the collapse of a mountain flank or a volcano into a lake or an ocean. We reproduce this situation at the laboratory scale. The landslide is modeled by the sudden release of a rectangular granular column, which then impacts a still water layer and (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jérôme Weiss (ISTerre, Grenoble)
Vendredi 19 mars 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Is mechanics driving the Arctic sea ice decline ?
In the Arctic, sea ice is undergoing for several decades a dramatic decline both in terms of spatial extent and average thickness. As sea ice strongly affects the exchanges of energy and momentum between the ocean and the atmosphere, its decline is accompanied by a particularly strong warming in the Arctic. The (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jérémy Hure (CEA Saclay)
Vendredi 5 mars 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Plasticity and ductile fracture in irradiated metals
Metals used in nuclear reactors core are subjected to neutron irradiation, leading to different kind of crystallographic defects depending on irradiation conditions. The main irradiation defects include dislocation loops and nano-voids. These defects have a strong influence on plasticity mechanisms, and, in turn, (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Matilda Backholm (Aalto Univ., Helsinki, Finland)
Vendredi 12 février 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
When honey moves faster than water
The viscosity of a fluid is well known to limit its flow : the more viscous a droplet, the slower it moves [1,2]. Here, we show that this intuitive rule breaks down in a confined liquid-repellent geometry. A gravity-driven, highly viscous glycerol droplet placed in a sealed superhydrophobic capillary moves more (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Emmanuelle Rio (LPS-Univ. Paris Saclay)
Vendredi 5 février 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Rupture of Foam Films and Surface Bubbles
Surface bubbles are of crucial interest since they favours the transport of material from the bulk to the overlying atmosphere through the production of aerosols. This is important for example in climate models, air pollution studies or in the carbonated beverage industry since the produced aerosols contain most (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Joe Tavacoli (München, Germany)
Vendredi 29 janvier 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Programmable design and performance of modular magnetic microswimmers
Synthetic microswimmers are promising agents for targeted in-vivo healthcare as well as important frameworks from which to advance the understanding of locomotion strategies at the microscopic scale.[1,2] Nevertheless, constructing these types of devices with flexibility of design and in large numbers remains a (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Baptiste Darbois-Texier (FAST)
Vendredi 22 janvier 2021 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Surface instability of shear-thickening suspensions down an inclined plane
A shear-thickening suspension, such as cornstarch particles in water, exhibits a very strange behavior : it flows as milk when gently stirred but turns rock solid under impact. Despite its notoriety, this phenomenon has been understood only recently. Based on this progress, we decided to explore the behavior of (...)
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Séminaire PMMH - Varda Hagh (Univ. of Chicago)
2020
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Séminaire PMMH - Lorraine Montel (UPMC)
Vendredi 11 décembre 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Emulsion droplets as a model biomimetic system
Emulsion droplets recapitulate the deformability and surface fluidity of biological objects, in a simpler and tunable fashion. Thus, they can be used as a model biomimetic system to study cell-cell interactions. During this talk, I will demonstrate this use in two different systems : the study of phagocytosis, and (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - A.M. Goryaeva (Université de Rouen)
Vendredi 27 novembre 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Reinforcing materials modelling by encoding the structures of defects in crystalline solids into distortion scores
A perfect crystal is a purely theoretical concept. Real-world crystals contain imperfections, also called defects. Identification and characterization of defects provide the crucial information for interpretation of simulations and experiments that bridge the gap between atomic- and micrometer-scales. But what is (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Joseph d'Alessandro
Vendredi 13 novembre 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1Eukaryotic cells as interacting living particles
Cells move. They propel themselves using an internal machinery which endows them with the characteristics of active particles. At the same time, they interact dynamically with (...)
Eukaryotic cells as interacting living particles
Cells move. They propel themselves using an internal machinery which endows them with the characteristics of active particles. At the same time, they interact dynamically with their environment and with neigbouring cells, by adhering, exerting forces and exchanging biochemical signals. In this talk, we will first (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Costantino Creton (SIMM ESPCI)
Vendredi 6 novembre 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Using light to detect molecular forces, chemical bond scission and to understand fracture
Costantino Creton Soft Matter Science and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, Université PSL, Paris, F Recent advances in chemistry have made it possible to directly optically visualize forces on chemical bonds or even bond scission by using molecules that either emit light or become fluorescent when activated by the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH-Cécile Sykes (Institut Curie, Paris)
Vendredi 27 mars 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Active or passive deformation of the cell membrane supplied by actin assembly. Perpectives on nucleus deformation
In all cell functions, a common observation is that cytoskeleton assembly correlates with membrane deformation based on active forces. The exact role, in particular, of the actin cytoskeleton in cell membrane deformation, with pushing or pulling forces, is what we address both experimentally and theoretically. We (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Chung-Yuen Hui (Cornell University)
Vendredi 13 mars 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Mechanical Properties of Fiber-Reinforced Soft Composites
In this talk I will focus on an emerging class of fiber reinforced composites where the matrix is extremely soft and tough. For example, an upper estimate for fiber/matrix modulus ratio in traditional fiber reinforced polymer composites is at most 100. Matrices made from tough elastic gels can have modulus (...) -
Séminaire PMMH, Arthur Lebée ENPC
Vendredi 6 mars 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Continuum elasticity of Miura Tessellations
Origami tessellations are curved two-dimensional discrete shells folded out of a periodic crease pattern. Unlike solid shells, Origami tessellations can morph and access a space of configurations each characterized by the list of folding angles of all creases. Due to inextensibility constraints imposed by Origami (...) -
Séminaire PMMH- Paulo E. Arratia (UPenn)
Vendredi 28 février 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
A microstructural view of yielding and plasticity in 2D disordered materials
When stressed sufficiently, amorphous materials yield and deform plastically via reorganization of microscopic constituents. Despite much effort, understanding the interdependence of yielding, plasticity, and microscopic structure in non-equilibrium states (i.e. under stress) remains a major challenge. In this (...) -
Séminaire PMMH- Elisabeth Guazzelli (MSC)
Vendredi 7 février 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Particle motion in vortical flows
In many natural phenomena or industrial applications, heavy particles are transported in complex flows. The flow structures may happen to promote the stirring and dispersion of the particles. But the opposite can also take place and the flow configuration may contribute to the focussing and accumulation of (...) -
Séminaire PMMH- Dwight Barkley (University of Warwick)
Vendredi 31 janvier 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
A fluid mechanic's analysis of the tea-cup singularity
In 1926 Einstein published a short paper explaining the meandering of rivers. He famously began the paper by discussing the secondary flow generated in a stirred tea cup — the flow now widely known to be responsible for the collection of tea leaves at the center of a stirred cup of tea. In 2014, Luo and Hou (...) -
Séminaire PMMH- Kristina Davitt (ENS)
Vendredi 24 janvier 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Wetting hysteresis and dynamics : interpreting dissipation mechanisms at the contact line
A liquid moving over a solid substrate is an everyday occurrence, and the hysteresis and dynamics of the three-phase contact line have been measured in innumerable experiments over the years. In addition, the ingredients needed to describe the phenomenon are known : in the most basic picture, there is viscous (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Doron Grossman (Collège de France)
Vendredi 17 janvier 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
From Molecules to Helical Ribbons - Shape and Shape Fluctuations
* Self assembly of molecules into supramolecular structures is an important process through which non trivial structures are formed in nano-metric scale. The resulting structure depends on chemical and physical principles that govern the process, and may be sensitive to the exact conditions in which they are (...) -
Séminaire PMMH Nicolas Triantafyllidis (LMS polytechnique)
Vendredi 10 janvier 2020 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
STABILITY PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS : MULTIPHYSICS AND MULTISCALE ASPECTS (A MECANICIAN'S PERSPECTIVE…)
Stability is a fascinating topic in solid mechanics that has its roots in the celebrated Euler column buckling problem, which first appeared in 1744. Over the years advances in technology have led to the study of ever more complicated structures first in civil and subsequently in mechanical engineering applications. (...)
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Séminaire PMMH - Lorraine Montel (UPMC)
2019
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Séminaire PMMH - Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Vendredi 20 décembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Crises et phénomènes socio-économiques collectifs
Comme l'écrivait P. W. Anderson en 1972 dans « More is different », le comportement de grandes assemblées d'individus ne peut pas être compris à partir de l'extrapolation du comportement d'individus isolés. Au contraire, des comportements complètement nouveaux, parfois spectaculaires et difficiles à anticiper, peuvent (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Séverine Atis (Harvard University)
Vendredi 13 décembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
On Growth and Form of Range Expansions at Liquid Interfaces
Range expansions coupled with fluid flows are of great importance in understanding the organization and competition of microorganism populations in liquid environments. However, combining growth dynamics of an expanding assembly of cells with hydrodynamics leads to challenging problems, involving the coupling of (...) -
Séminaire PMMH, Vinod Kumar Saranathan (Yale NUS College)
Vendredi 6 décembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Biomimetic and Bio-inspired Potential of Self-assembled Biophotonic Nanostructures
Colors in Nature can be produced either chemically, by the selective light bsorption by pigments, or physically, by light interference from biophotonic nanostructures. Intriguingly, there are almost no known violet, blue or green pigments in animals. And yet these structurally produced colors are ubiquitous in (...) -
Séminaire PMMH — Miguel Fernandez (équipe-projet Commedia, INRIA Paris)
Vendredi 22 novembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction with immersed elastic bodies
The mechanical interaction of an incompressible fluid flow with an elastic structure is a multi-physic problem omnipresent in nature and in many engineering fields. One can think, for instance, of the opening/closing dynamics of heart valves when blood is propelled into the arteries and of the wings of a bird (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jérôme Fresnais (PHENIX, UPMC)
Vendredi 15 novembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Making superhydrophobic surfaces with magnetic elastomer : towards controlled droplet movement
In the field of superhydrophobic surfaces, natural surfaces exhibiting non-wetting filament networks remain a challenge to understand. Indeed, if classical superhydrophobic surfaces developed roughness at different scales, superhydrophobicity on hairy surfaces shows elastic behavior that is more difficult to (...) -
Séminaire PMMH -Julien Bobroff (LPS, Univ. Paris-Sud/Paris-Saclay)
Vendredi 8 novembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
La physique autrement
Pourquoi vulgariser la physique autrement ? Et surtout comment ? Voilà les deux questions au coeur des activités de notre équipe de recherche. Nous y explorons de nouvelles formes de vulgarisation en lien avec le monde du design et de la création. Parmi nos dernières productions, un objet de médiation sur la (...) -
Séminaire PMMH- Pedro Saenz (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Vendredi 25 octobre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Hydrodynamic Spin Lattices
Mesoscale and macroscale analogs of electronic spin systems, such as ultra-cold fermionic lattice gases and mechanical metamaterials, offer direct insights into fundamental physical prin ciples while simultaneously promising groundbreaking applications, from quantum computation and simulators to photonic and (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jean Comtet (EPFL)
Vendredi 4 octobre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Soft matter and mechanics at the molecular scale : from the rheology of few-atoms gold junctions to the observation of single proton transport at solid/water interfaces.
Jean Comtet École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Département Sciences et Techniques de l'Ingénieur, CH-1015 Lausanne New paradigms are expected to emerge at the nanometer scale for soft matter and mechanics, stemming from the breakdown of continuum concepts and the appearance of new force scales. I will present (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Natsuhiko Yoshinaga (Tohoku University)
Lundi 30 septembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Model Selection of PDE for Pattern Forming Systems
Partial differential equations (PDE) have been widely used to reproduce patterns in nature, and to give an insight on the mechanism underlying pattern formation. Although enormous number of PDE models have been proposed, they rely on pre-request knowledge of physical laws and symmetries, and one has difficulties (...) -
Séminaire PMMH-Arezki Boudaoud (ENS Lyon)
Vendredi 27 septembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
From tissue mechanics to plant morphogenesis
The form of organisms relies on the mechanical properties of their cells and tissues. In order to help understanding how plants grow and reach well-defined shapes, we developed a set of experimental and theoretical approaches to quantify tissue mechanics in living plants at multiple scales and to relate such (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - David Saintillan (University of California San Diego)
Vendredi 20 septembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Viscous dynamics of passive and active microfilaments
Elastic filaments and semiflexible polymers are ubiquitous in biology, where they play a role in cell mechanics and locomotion as well as for fluid transport on the microscale. In this talk, I will discuss two problems involving the interaction of such filaments with fluid flows. The first problem focuses on the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Patrick Bot (Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale)
Vendredi 13 septembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
From sails aerodynamics to the Lift Crisis (and other results on the lift generated by a highly curved plate)
Yacht sails show some peculiarities among aerodynamic systems. Rather flat sails are used to sail upwind, and the flow remains mostly attached. To sail downwind, highly cambered sails may be used where flow separation is significant. Some results will be shown on the flow around a spinnaker and the related fluid (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Yukitaka Ishimoto (Akita Prefectural University)
Vendredi 6 septembre 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Biomechanical excursions : from cell shapes to dragonfly wings
In the last decade, much attention has been paid to the physical/mechanical aspects of biological phenomena inside/outside living bodies, owing to the latest technological developments. For example, it becomes possible to directly measure the forces generated by cells on specially designed substrates, or to infer (...) -
Seminaire Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi
Lundi 26 août 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 3
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Séminaire PMMH - Farzam Zoueshtiagh (IEMN, Lille)
Vendredi 5 juillet 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Dynamics and stability of a liquid-gas interface in the presence of micro-particles
This French-Japan-US collaborative study examines the influence of the micro-particles on the stability of the liquid-air interface. We will first revisit the effect of these particles on the dynamics of the interface in a confined "1D" geometry [1] with the formation of armored bubbles (fig. 1(a)) and will show (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Allbens Atman (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Brasil)
Vendredi 28 juin 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Experimental validation of nonextensive scaling law in confined granular media : emergence of shear bands
The statistics of grain displacements probability distribution function (pdf) during the shear of a granular medium displays an unusual dependence with the shear increment upscaling as recently evinced [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 238301 2015]. Basically, the pdf of grain displacements has clear nonextensive (q-Gaussian) (...) -
Séminaire PMMH-Nicolas Vandewalle (Université de Liège)
Vendredi 21 juin 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Milliswimmers : Self-assembling complex and functional structures at the (sub)millimeter scale
When soft ferromagnetic particles are suspended at air-water interfaces in the presence of a vertical magnetic field, dipole-dipole repulsion competes with capillary attraction such that structures self-assemble. The complex arrangements of such floating bodies are emphasized. By adding a horizontal and (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Denis Guthleben (CNRS)
Vendredi 7 juin 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Le CNRS, 80... et quelques années d'histoire
Créé par un décret du 19 octobre 1939, le CNRS voit le jour dans un monde qui vient de basculer dans l'abîme : six semaines plus tôt, l'Allemagne nazie a envahi la Pologne et, dans la foulée, l'Angleterre et la France lui ont déclaré la guerre. Dans ce contexte, le nouvel établissement doit piloter la mobilisation (...) -
Séminaire PMMH- Tom Mullin (Univ Oxford)
Vendredi 31 mai 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Levitation by Thin Viscous Layers
The results of experimental investigations into balancing cuboids, cylinders and spheres‘ on a vertical moving wall which is covered a thin layer of viscous fluid are discussed. It is found that balance can be achieved over a narrow range of speeds in all cases. Systematic results for spheres and cylinders have (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Corrado Rainone (ITP Univ. of Amsterdam)
Vendredi 24 mai 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Addressing the protocol dependence of glass plasticity and yielding
The glassy slowdown is a phenomenon whereupon a liquid, when supercooled below its melting point, exhibits a dramatic slowdown of its dynamics, such that it rapidly becomes impossible to maintain it equilibrated on feasible experimental timescales. The resulting out-of-equilibrium system is referred to as a glass, (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Michaël Baudoin (IEMN - Université de Lille)
Vendredi 17 mai 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Manipulation of fluid and particles at microscales with selective acoustical tweezers
The selective contactless manipulation and assembly of physical and biological objects and fluids at micrometric down to nanometric scales promises tremendous development in fields as diverse as microrobotics, microfluidics, tissue engineering or micro/nano- medicine. In this regard, acoustical tweezers is a (...) -
Séminaire PMMH-Bertrand Maury (Dpt maths, ENS)
Vendredi 10 mai 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Faster is Slower effect in crowds
The so-called Faster is Slower (FiS) effect is commonly observed in real-life or experimental situations. In the context of evacuation processes, it expresses that increasing the speed (or, more generally, the eagerness to egress) of individuals may induce a reduction of the flow through the exit door. We propose (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Barakat Abdul (Ladhyx, Polytechnique)
Vendredi 19 avril 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Optimizing the Performance of Endovascular Stents : Cells, Vessels, and Connected Devices
The pathological complications of atherosclerosis, namely heart attacks and strokes, are the leading cause of mortality in the world. The most common treatment for atherosclerosis is the implantation of a stent, a wire-mesh structure that is deployed on a balloon catheter and expanded at the location of arterial (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Priya Subramanian (Univ. of Leeds)
Vendredi 12 avril 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Modal Interactions and Superlattice Patterns
Pattern formation in systems in many real world systems such as neural-field models, reaction-diffusion systems and fluid systems such as the Faraday wave system have separation of scales leading to nonlinear modal interactions. A general analysis of possible terms that can arise via modal interactions is subject (...) -
Séminaire PMMH Michaël Berhanu (MSC)
Vendredi 5 avril 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Nonlinear interactions and turbulence of capillary surface waves
The dynamics of the waves propagating on a water surface is often influenced by nonlinear effects. The complex and disordered patterns of gravity waves seen on a choppy sea are indeed interpreted as a statistical dynamic equilibrium of waves in interaction. Using among some others the hypothesis of weak non (...) -
Séminaire PMMH-Elim Hong (IBPS, Sorbonne Université)
Vendredi 29 mars 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
The yin yang pathway in the aversive brain
The habenulo-interpeduncular (Hb-IPN) pathway is an evolutionarily conserved neural pathway mediating diverse pathophysiological behaviors including locomotion, fear, anxiety and nicotine addiction. The left and right habenular nuclei consists of hundreds of neurons that send long axons to project to its target, (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Corrado Maurini (Inst. J.-L. d'Alembert UPMC)
Vendredi 22 mars 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Nucleation and propagation of cracks in the variational approach to fracture
Damage and fracture in brittle materials are associated to a loss of stiffness and an energy dissipation. These phenomena can be modelled as a minimisation problem on the sum of the elastic and the dissipated energies. This view led a fecund variational theory of fracture and to efficient numerical approximation (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Shreyas Mandre (Brown Univ., Providence)
Vendredi 15 mars 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Surfactants driven out of equilibrium by a flow
A surfactant is a chemical compound that adsorbs onto a fluid-fluid interface and reduces its surface tension. A non-uniform distribution of such compounds at the interface causes a Marangoni stress that drives a flow, which in turn transports the surfactant. Estimating in situ the degree to which the adsorbed (...) -
Séminaire PMMH Jean-Arthur Olive (ENS)
Vendredi 22 février 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
From micro-crack to crustal fault
Major fault systems dissect the Earth's crust at the boundaries of tectonic plates. On human time scales, faults may slip catastrophically during earthquakes, but fault lines remain steady features of tectonic landscapes. On geological time scales, new fault lines can form, shape mountains and basins as they (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Tobias Schneider (EPFL)
Vendredi 15 février 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
A network of invariant solutions underlying spatio-temporal patterns in inclined layer convection
Thermal convection in a fluid between two horizontal plates, a lower hot plate and an upper cold plate, exhibits chaotic dynamics and turbulence. If such a convection cell is inclined against gravity, buoyancy forces drive hot and cold fluid up and down the incline leading to a shear flow in the base state and the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Marie Le Merrer (ILM, Univ. Lyon 1)
Vendredi 8 février 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Flow and surfactant dynamics in bubble rearrangements in foams
Liquid foams are assemblies of gas bubbles in a soapy solution, found in many applications from cosmetics to oil drilling. The nature of surfactants changes the properties of the liquid-gas interfaces, and consequently the macroscopic properties of the foam like its stability and rheology. However, the flow (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Christophe Gissinger (ENS)
Vendredi 1er février 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Instabilités dans les écoulements entraînés par forçage magnétique
La conversion d'énergie électromagnétique en énergie cinétique par un fluide conducteur de l'électricité est un phénomène omniprésent que l'on trouve dans plusieurs systèmes naturels ainsi que dans de nombreuses applications industrielles. Malgré l'importance de ces applications, plusieurs aspects des écoulements (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Sophie Ramananarivo (LadHyX, École Polytechnique)
Vendredi 18 janvier 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Emergent order, from fish schools to colloidal crystals
It has long been thought that fish form into schools and birds into flocks so that each individual can take advantage of the flows produced by others. Using physical experiments that mimic the movements of fins or wings, we discover that flapping bodies not only swim or fly faster when grouped together but that (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Univ. Paris 1)
Vendredi 11 janvier 2019 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Dialogue avec les matériaux
Cette intervention est une invite à penser les matériaux comme des partenaires de nos aventures techniques. Après un bref historique des conditions d'émergence de la science des matériaux on montrera en quel sens les matériaux sont des hybrides de nature, de technique et de société. Et on illustrera cette condition (...)
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Séminaire PMMH - Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
2018
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Séminaire PMMH - Emmanuel Virot (EPFL - Harvard University)
Vendredi 21 décembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Non-destructive prediction of the buckling load of soda cans and space rockets
What is the critical load required to crush a soda can or a space rocket shell ? Surprisingly, there is no good way to estimate it, because of the high defect-sensitivity of the buckling instability. Here we measure the response of (imperfect) empty Coca-Cola cans to lateral poking and identify a generic stability (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Ory Schnitzer ( Imperial College London)
Vendredi 14 décembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Asymptotic models of wave propagation and resonance in micro-structured media
The study of microstructured media in acoustic settings is undergoing a considerable revival, with ideas originating from electromagnetism, photonic crystals and metamaterials influencing structured acoustic devices. Fundamentally, these advancements rely on incorporating resonances to effectively control wave (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Dimitry Kolomenskiy (JAMSTEC, Japon)
Vendredi 7 décembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Bumblebee in flight and in digit
Flight as a mode of animal locomotion emerges from interaction of internal biological systems with the external environment. Although it is currently, or even generally, unrealistic to fully reduce this problem to first principles, it proves possible and useful to combine low-dimensional models of biological (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Nicolas Taberlet (UCBL - ENS Lyon)
Vendredi 30 novembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Morphogenèse glaciaire induite par ablation différentielle
Les processus d'ablation de la glace sont multiples, la sublimation et la fonte étant dépendantes des conditions climatiques (ensoleillement, température, humidité, précipitations, vent…). Nous avons étudié la morphogenèse des « Zen Stones » qui se forment essentiellement sur le lac Baïkal au cours de la saison hivernale. (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Pierre Jop (SVI, Saint-Gobain)
Vendredi 23 novembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Vers un matériau granulaire humide : quand la capillarité contrôle les interfaces
Le mélange de grains avec un liquide est souvent la première étape d'un processus industriel, mais la nature triphasique du milieu rend la description globale difficile [1] : la cohésion des ponts capillaires [2] et la progression du liquide dans le système créent des zones de comportements mécaniques différents. De (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Lucio Isa (ETH, Zurich)
Vendredi 16 novembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Breaking the symmetry : Designing colloidal motors and swimming at oil-water interfaces
Breaking symmetry is at the very core of achieving propulsion at the microscale, where viscous forces dominate. Nature has perfected a range of different strategies to reach this goal for swimming microorganisms, which scientists have taken inspiration from to produce artificial micro-swimmers [1]. A common way to (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Mark Pauly (EPFL)
Vendredi 9 novembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Light, Matter, Form - Computational Design of Functional Geometry
In this talk, I will outline a general computational approach for material-aware design of complex 3D models. The key step is to identify suitable geometric abstractions of physical properties that enable effective computations with high predictive accuracy. I will show several examples of this approach for (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Thomas Lessinnes (EPFL)
Vendredi 19 octobre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
New tools for the mechanics of biofilaments
Many biological objects present themselves as elongated slender structures. One may for instance mention proteins, polymers, DNA, bacterial fibres, fungi, stems, roots, arteries or neurons to cite but a few. It so happens that these bio-filaments are often organised as bundles of sub-filaments. The interplay of (...) -
Séminaire PMMH- Nicolas FRANCOIS (The Australian National University)
Vendredi 12 octobre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Surfing wave driven turbulence at a fluid surface
Nicolas FRANCOIS, Hua XIA, Horst PUNZMANN, Michael SHATS Physics of Fluids Laboratory, The Australian National University When a laminar flow becomes turbulent, its energy is spread over a range of scales in a process named energy cascade. It has recently been discovered that turbulent flows can be forced by (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Laurent Duchemin (IRPhE, Marseille)
Vendredi 5 octobre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Deux écoulements capillaires impulsionnels
Dans cet exposé, je présenterai deux études expérimentales et théoriques sur des écoulements ayant une dynamique rapide à une échelle capillaire. La première concerne l'étirement impulsionnel d'un ligament liquide millimétrique. Dans le contexte général de la fragmentation, cette expérience modèle permet à la fois d'étudier (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Sara Jabbari Farouji (Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
Vendredi 28 septembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Controlling stability and transport of magnetic microswimmers by an external field
Inspired by intriguing dynamics of magnetotactic bacteria, we present a minimal kinetic model for magnetic swimmers in an external magnetic field to investigate their collective behavior. Our kinetic model couples a Fokker-Planck equation for active particles in an external magnetic field to the Stokes flow. (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Marc Durand (MSC, Univ. Paris Diderot)
Vendredi 21 septembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Milieux cellulaires fluides et réseaux : microstructure et propriétés effectives
Les propriétés structurelles (géométrie, topologie, désordre) d'un matériau à l'échelle de ses constituants affectent profondément ses propriétés effectives, telles que sa réponse mécanique ou acoustique. Au cours de ce séminaire, je présenterai diverses études visant à caractériser - de manière exacte ou statistique - les (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Hans Herrmann (ETH, Zürich)
Vendredi 14 septembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Structures granulaires renforcées par un fil et éjections granulaires d'un milieu poreux
Je vais présenter deux sujets granulaires : Le premier c'est la stabilisation d'une colonne granulaire avec un fil. Il s'agit de comprendre avec des expériences et des simulations numériques pourquoi et comment stabilisent des piliers renforcés par ficelle selon une nouvelle technique développée par des architectes. (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Fernando Peruani (Univ. de Nice)
Vendredi 7 septembre 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Towards a non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of biological and biomimetic systems
Collective phenomena are observed in biological and biomimetic systems at all scales, from bacterial systems to sheep herds in biology, and from Quincke rollers to bristlebots or kilobots in man-made, active systems. Provided that these non-equilibrium systems consist of independent units without a central control (...) -
Séminaire PMMH : Antonio de Simone (Trieste)
Vendredi 13 juillet 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Biological and bio-inspired motility at microscopic scales : locomotion by shape control
Locomotion strategies employed by unicellular organism are a rich source of inspiration for studying mechanisms for shape control. In fact, in an overwhelming majority of cases, biological locomotion can be described as the result of the body pushing against the world, by using shape change. Motion is then a (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Federico Toschi (Technische Universiteit, Eindhoven)
Vendredi 6 juillet 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Turbulence and plastic events in fluid emulsions
Emulsions made of immiscible fluids can display an very rich phenomenology. In this talk we will discuss how to numerically model fluid emulsions and we will present results from recent numerical studies. The numerical model that we employ is based on the multi-component Lattice Boltzmann method as it provides a (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Philippe Marcq (Institut Curie)
Vendredi 29 juin 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
From cells to tissue : A continuum model of epithelial mechanics
A continuum model of epithelial tissue mechanics is formulated using cellular-level mechanical ingredients and cell morphogenetic processes, including cellular shape changes and cellular rearrangements. This model incorporates stress and deformation tensors, which can be compared with experimental data. Focusing (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alexander Alexeev (Georgia Tech)
Vendredi 22 juin 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Biomimetic flapping and beating in viscous fluid
We probe interactions of elastic structures with viscous fluids to investigate biomimetic approaches for fluid manipulation. We consider two systems : fish-like elastic fines and artificial cilia. Fish displays incredible agility and speed using oscillating flexible fins. We represent fins as thin elastic plates (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Ludovic Bellon (ENS Lyon)
Vendredi 15 juin 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Interrupteur optique, ondes gravitationnelles et physique statistique hors d'équilibre : des microleviers à tout faire
Dans cette présentation, je montrerai comment le bruit thermique, loin d'être une simple nuisance, peut être un outil de précision dans l'exploration des matériaux autant qu'une porte ouverte sur des phénomènes de physique statistique intrigants. Guidée par la sérendipité, cette marche aléatoire de la physique à l'échelle (...) -
Séminaire PMMH : Thomas Engels (LMD, ENS)
Vendredi 8 juin 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
The impact of turbulence on flying insects in tethered and free flight : high-resolution numerical experiments
Flapping insects are remarkably agile fliers, adapted to a highly turbulent environment. We present a series of high resolution numerical simulations of a bumblebee interacting with fully developed turbulent inflow. We consider both tethered and free flight, the latter with all six degrees of freedom coupled to (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - John Kolinski (EPFL)
Vendredi 1er juin 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Wetting and contact line propagation on solid surfaces
John M. Kolinski, EMSI, EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland The propagation of a contact line at the interface between liquid and a dry solid is of great fundamental and practical importance. We experimentally probe the dynamics of wetting that occur when an impacting drop first contacts a dry surface. We show that the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alba Marcellan (SIMM, ESPCI)
Vendredi 25 mai 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Some strategies for hydrogel toughening, from polymer adsorption onto NPs to responsive toughening by phase-separation
Based on gel's remarkable features of absorption, storage or release of water (or solvent), gels have become essential in engineering applications like superabsorbent, soilless agriculture or tissue engineering and regeneration. Gels could also be key players for the design of flexible actuators, valves or (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Aleksandra Walczak (ENS - LPT)
Vendredi 18 mai 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Learning how bird flocks coordinate
Flocking is a typical example of emergent collective behavior, where interactions between individuals produce collective patterns on large scales. I will discuss how by analysing different aspect of this motion based on quantitative data we can learn about the origins of these interactions. Specifically I will (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Giuseppe Zurlo (National University of Ireland)
Vendredi 13 avril 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Manufacturing of information-rich elastic bodies through surface deposition.
In this talk I will discuss a recent theory, developed in collaboration with Lev Truskinovsky, that describes how desired distributions of residual stress can be achieved in bodies that are manufactured though the local addition of mass on their boundary [1],[2]. The source of residual stresses in elastic bodies (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Etienne Guyon
Vendredi 6 avril 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Une brève histoire des musées de sciences jusqu'au Palais de la Découverte aujourd'hui et demain (?)
Au-delà de la diversité des conditions de leurs créations et de leurs fonctionnements dans l'histoire, on retrouve dans l'histoire des Musées des composantes universelles. Tout en faisant références à d'autres expériences culturelles scientifiques, nous axerons notre présentation sur quatre grands musées français. Tout (...) -
Séminaire Charlotte K. Hemelrijk (Univ. Groningen)
Mercredi 4 avril 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 2
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Séminaire PMMH - Leonardo Gordillo (Universidad De Santiago de Chile)
Vendredi 30 mars 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Drop-impact dynamics on solid surfaces : Evolution of impact force
In this talk, I will give an overview of our latest advances in understanding the dynamics of drop impacts on dry solid surfaces. By synchronizing high-speed photography with fast force sensing, we simultaneously measured the temporal evolution of the shape and impact force of impacting drops over a wide range of (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Falko Ziebert (Universität Heidelberg)
Vendredi 9 mars 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A1 (Urbain)
Self-propelled motion of biological cells and polymeric fibers
Self-propulsion, i.e. self-organized motion in the absence of external forces, is an active research topic in non-equilibrium physics. Depending on the system, open questions span from the propulsive force generation and transfer over guiding mechanisms to collective effects in ensembles of self-propellers. The (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Sébastien Neukirch (Institut d'Alembert, Sorbonne Université)
Vendredi 16 février 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A1 (Urbain)
Le treuil élastocapillaire en une et deux dimensions
Nous parlerons d'élasto-capillarité, domaine mêlant la déformation des structures élastiques et les forces de tension de surface. En effet, les forces capillaires que développent les gouttes liquides peuvent être suffisamment intenses pour plier des filaments ou des membranes, voire même enrouler des fibres. Plus (...) -
Séminaire laboratoire PMMH - José Eduardo Wesfreid
Vendredi 9 février 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A1 (Urbain)
Henri BENARD : convection thermique et tourbillons derrière un obstacle
Henri Bénard, physicien français né en 1874 et décédé en 1939, a été le précurseur des études expérimentales systématiques de deux sujets majeurs de la mécanique des fluides : la convection thermique des fluides chauffés par le bas (convection de Rayleigh-Bénard et de Bénard-Marangoni) et du lâché tourbillonaire derrière un (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Matthieu Roché (MSC, Univ. Paris Diderot)
Vendredi 2 février 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A1 (Urbain)
Effet Marangoni induit par des tensioactifs solubles
La présence d'un gradient thermique ou d'un gradient de concentration de surface en molécules tensioactives le long d'une interface entre deux liquides conduit à l'existence d'un gradient de tension interfaciale et à l'établissement d'un écoulement dans le volume de chaque liquide : c'est l'effet Marangoni, thermique (...) -
Séminaire laboratoire PMMH Alexandre NICOLAS (LPTMS - Psud)
Vendredi 19 janvier 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A3 (Joliot)
Écoulements particulaires en géométrie confinée et au passage d'une constriction : De la microfluidique aux lâchers de taureaux
Si l'on force des particules discrètes à s'écouler dans un canal étroit ou à travers une constriction, des effets assez surprenants peuvent se produire. J'aborderai quelques exemples de tels écoulements. Dans le domaine de la microfluidique, la mise au point de laboratoires sur puce demande de transporter des émulsions (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Emmanuelle Rio (LPS, Orsay)
Vendredi 12 janvier 2018 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Rupture d'objets savonneux
Les bulles, les films de savon ou les mousses sont des objets éphémères dont le temps de vie dépend beaucoup de la solution savonneuse utilisée pour les fabriquer. Les raisons de leur vieillissement sont multiples et dans ce séminaire, je me focaliserai sur la rupture des films qu'on appelle aussi coalescence. Dans un (...)
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Séminaire PMMH - Emmanuel Virot (EPFL - Harvard University)
2017
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Séminaire PMMH : Jean-Pierre Hulin (FAST, Orsay)
Vendredi 22 décembre 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Tracer spreading at low Reynolds numbers : reversible or not ?
The reversibility of fluid velocity fields at low Reynolds numbers with respect to a change of the flow direction is well established : its may result in the reversibility of tracer spreading and mixing as may be demonstrated spectacularly in simple geometries such as Couette flows. However, at long times, this (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Hiroaki Katsuragi (Nagoya University)
Vendredi 15 décembre 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Solid projectile impact onto a porous dust aggregate consisting of micrometer-sized particles
Porous dust aggregates consisting cohesive monomer grains are considered materials to build planetesimals in a protoplanetary disk. In order to reveal the history of planet formation, mechanical properties of dust aggregates have to be quantitatively understood. In this study, we perform a simple impact experiment (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Frédéric Moisy (Laboratoire FAST - Université Paris Sud
Vendredi 24 novembre 2017 de 11h00 à 12h15 - A3 (Joliot)
Anti-rotation dans un verre de bière ou une tasse de café
Pour aérer un vin avant de le déguster, on imprime au verre un mouvement de translation circulaire. En plus de créer une onde de surface se propageant circulairement (onde de ballottement, ou sloshing), il est bien connu que ce mouvement engendre une rotation du fluide, dans la même direction que la vitesse de phase (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Gergely Molnár (Laboratory 3SR, Univ. Grenoble Alpes)
Vendredi 17 novembre 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'étude
Multiscale methods for the analysis of plastic deformation of amorphous materials
Silicate glasses are used for many technical purposes, especially where stiffness and transparency are required. These glasses are brittle on the macroscopic scale but ductile at the micron level. The study deals with the analysis of the elasto-plastic response of sodium silicate glasses. We propose a new method (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Wilson Poon (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
Vendredi 20 octobre 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Complexity and decay — towards a science of self disassembly
Soft matter physics has been obsessed with 'self assembly' for some time - the ability of Brownian or, more recently, 'active matter' systems to generate (sometimes useful !) patterns 'on their own accord'. The original impulse for this was biological, the term 'self assembly' being first used in a famous 1962 (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Kirsten Martens (LIPhy, Univ. Grenoble Alpes)
Vendredi 6 octobre 2017 de 11h00 à 12h30 - A1 (Urbain)
Fluidization of yield stress materials through active and activated local events
In this talk I will discuss the possible fluidization mecanisms of yield stress materials through either locally active dynamics, like cell division in tissues [1,2] or vibration induced local plasticity like in externally driven granular materials [3]. The long range elastic response to these events lead to a (...) -
Séminaire PMMH : Timothée Mouterde (LPS, ENS))
Vendredi 29 septembre 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A1 (Urbain)
Matériaux multifonctions : antipluie, antibuée, antireflets
Sur une surface couverte de microrugosités hydrophobes, l'eau est ultra-mobile. Ces surfaces sont appelées superhydrophobes : les rugosités retiennent une couche d'air sous la goutte qui repose donc sur coussin d'air. En situations humides, la buée dans les textures peut altérer ces propriétés anti-eau. Comme le (...) -
Séminaire PMMH : Alexis Duchesne
Vendredi 22 septembre 2017 de 10h30 à 12h30 - A1 (Urbain)
La marche des Funam-bulles : promenades de bulles sur un fil chaud dans un bain liquide.
Lorsque l'on chauffe un fil résistif horizontal dans un bain liquide et que l'on dépasse localement la température d'ébullition dudit liquide, des bulles de vapeur vont nucléer à la surface du fil. Les différentes théories présentes dans la littérature prédisent que les bulles générées depuis des sites de nucléation actifs (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Antonin Coutant (Univ. of Nottingham)
Vendredi 15 septembre 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
A black hole in your bathtub
I will discuss the possibility to mimic black hole physics in fluid flows. The starting point is an analogy discovered by Unruh between the propagation of sound in a flowing fluid and waves around a black hole. In these analogue setups, it is possible to test various black hole effects. I will focus on the case (...) -
Séminaire PMMH : Pascal Raux
Vendredi 8 septembre 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Interactions entre grains et liquides
Dans cette présentation, je propose d'illustrer la diversité des interactions entre grains et liquide au travers de différents problèmes : – L'ajout de liquide accroit la cohésion du milieu granulaire. Contrairement aux régimes où le liquide est en faible quantité, la transition vers un milieu granulaire saturé a reçu (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alfred J. Crosby (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst)
Vendredi 21 juillet 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Deformation Mechanisms in Ultra-thin Polymer Glasses
The properties of polymer glasses have been studied classically due to their importance for a wide range of technologies ; however, there is increasing need and demand to use these materials in geometries where dimensions approach the length scale of an individual polymer chain. Although significant efforts over (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Pierre Rognon (Univ. of Sydney)
Vendredi 30 juin 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Rheology and mixing properties of dense granular flows
Pierre Rognon, Particles and Grains Laboratory School of Civil Engineering- The University of Sydney, Sydney Australia Granular materials like sand, rice and snow are composed of many grains interacting with each other. Predicting their ability to flow and to mix is key to a number of applications in geophysics, (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Philip Marcus (University of California, Berkeley)
Vendredi 23 juin 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Optimal Design by Morphing : Is the Navier-Stokes Equation the Best Method for Describing Fluid Dynamics ?
We present a new method, which we call design-by-morphing, for the optimal hydrodynamic or aerodynamic design of the shape of an object. Traditional morphing methods, which require covering the surface of an object with a large number (typically millions) of triangular meshed points, cannot be used in searches for (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Rémy Dubertrand (Univ de Liège)
Vendredi 16 juin 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Scattering theory for walking droplets in the presence of obstacles
Walking droplets that are sustained on the surface of a vibrating liquid, have attracted considerable attention during the past decade due to their remarkable analogy with quantum wave-particle duality. This was initiated by the pioneering experiment by Y. Couder and E. Fort in 2006, which reported the observation (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - M. Andreatta (CNRS/IRCAM/UPMC et Université de Strasbourg / USIAS)
Vendredi 9 juin 2017 de 10h30 à 12h30 - A1 (Urbain)
Algèbre et géométrie en musique et musicologie
Si les mathématiques ont accompagné depuis toujours la réflexion sur les fondements théoriques de la musique, elles sont devenues incontournables dans l'analyse musicale, en particulier à l'aide de l'ordinateur. Dans cette présentation, on montrera quelques aspects logiques et géométriques à l'œuvre dans la musique (...) -
Séminaire PMMH : Marcelo Dias (James Madison University)
Vendredi 2 juin 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Thin Elastic Structures : A roadmap from forms to functions
Thin elastic structures (e.g. plates and shells) have stimulated new approaches and applications to mechanical metamaterials as well as brought to light many fundamental questions in our understanding of shape and function. Insights of what functionality roles these structures play comes from connections between (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Eric Dufresne (ETH, Zurich)
Vendredi 19 mai 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Three-Phase Contacts with Soft Solid Substrates
Surface forces can drive large deformations of soft solids. I will discuss the deformation of soft solids in contact with liquid droplets and rigid particles. Here, classic results for wetting and adhesion fail to describe the equilibrium of three-phase contact lines. While interfacial energies are sufficient to (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Jacques Treiner (Sciences-Po)
Vendredi 12 mai 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Un regard critique sur les scénarios 100% renouvelables
Résumé : Plusieurs organismes ont récemment proposé pour la France une perspective de fourniture d'énergie à la fois décarbonée et sans faire appel à la filière nucléaire. L'ADEME, en se limitant à l'électricité, propose un mix de ce type pour 2050 à un coût voisin du coût correspondant à une prolongation du mix d'aujourd'hui, (...) -
Journées du laboratoire PMMH hors murs
Vendredi 5 mai 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
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Séminaire PMMH - Corrado Rainone (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Vendredi 28 avril 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Shear bands as manifestation of a criticality in yielding amorphous solids.
The nature of the yielding transition in amorphous solids is a long-standing riddle which has attracted a lot of research effort in recent years. Recently, some of us have proposed a picture of yielding as a first-order like transition in a suitable overlap order parameter, measuring the degree of similarity (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Matteo Ciccotti (SIMM, ESPCI)
Vendredi 21 avril 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
MICROMECHANISMS OF FRACTURE PROPAGATION IN GLASSY POLYMERS
While most glassy polymers are nominally brittle at macroscopic scales, they are known to exhibit plastic deformation in indentation, scratching, and microcutting when the loaded region is sufficiently small. The same applies to the micrometer size process zone at the tip of a propagating crack. While the presence (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alexandre Danescu (EC, Lyon)
Vendredi 31 mars 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Design of three-dimensional objects using stress relaxation in thin films : the interplay between mechanics and geometry
It is well-known that a free pre-stressed elastic bi-layer will deform so as to "relax" its total energy. The relaxation process may deform simple straight segments to rolls, or curls, etc. In an attempt to cover more complex three-dimensional geometries we address and solve the general question concerning the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Antonio de Simone (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Vendredi 24 mars 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
On shape control : some case studies inspired by biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales
Control of shape is at the root of many processes of fundamental relevance in Biology, from morphogenesis to locomotion. For slender one-dimensional objects (rods) or thin two-dimensional ones (plates and shells), shape can be controlled by adjusting curvature thanks to the application of active internal (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alexandre Le Tiec (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris)
Vendredi 17 mars 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
General Relativity and Gravitational Waves, 100 years after Einstein
A century ago, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the nature of space, time and gravitation. His general theory of relativity predicts, in particular, the existence of black holes and gravitational waves. By sheer coincidence, the celebration of general relativity's centennial also marked the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Henri Van Damme (ESPCI-MIT)
Vendredi 10 mars 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Gaz et huile de « schiste » : un bon sujet, quoiqu'il advienne ?
Les réservoirs pétroliers auto-sourcés sont des roches compactes riches en matière organique qui sont exploités comme source de gaz naturel et/ou de pétrole dits « non conventionnels ». Ils tirent leur qualificatif « auto-sourcés » du fait que les hydrocarbures qu'ils contiennent ont été générés sur place et ont échappé à la (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Patrick Guenoun (CEA)
Vendredi 3 mars 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A4 (Langevin)
Elasticity of nano structured objects probed by AFM
In this communication we will describe how Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) was used to investigate the mechanical properties of nanostructured objects. These objects are nanocapsules designed for a theranostic approach where they can provide both acoustic imaging properties in vivo and release properties of (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Camille Duprat (LadHyX)
Vendredi 24 février 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A4 (Langevin)
Catching drops with fibers
In this talk, I will present recent results on the capture of aerosol droplets with a textile, i.e. a fibrous material. Fibrous media are commonly used to collect droplets from an aerosol ; woven nets are used to harvest fresh water from fog, and non-woven entangled fibers are used to filter oil drops from gas (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - AIMEE K. WESSEL (INSTITUT PASTEUR)
Vendredi 3 février 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A4 (Langevin)
Examining prokaryotic community behavior using 3D printing
Bacterial communities engage in social activities, exhibiting behaviors such as communicating with small signaling molecules (quorum sensing [QS]) and building antibiotic-resistant biofilms. Most of our understanding of QS and biofilm formation arises from in vitro studies of bacterial communities containing large (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Daniel Bonamy (CEA-SACLAY)
Vendredi 20 janvier 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Sismicité en rupture hétérogène nominalement fragile : organisation statistique des événements acoustiques accompagnant la propagation lente d'une fissure unique
Prévoir quand un matériau fragile va se rompre n'est pas une mince affaire ! Le comportement en rupture observé à l'échelle macroscopique est en effet très sensible aux inhomogénéités de structure à des échelles très fines, à la présence de défauts ou d'imperfections. Cela se traduit par des fluctuations statistiques importantes (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Pierre-Yves Passaggia (Univ. of North Carolina)
Vendredi 13 janvier 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Convection horizontale : stabilité, bifurcation et son rôle dans la circulation méridionale des océans.
Le rôle des différents phénomènes physiques responsables de la circulation méridionale des océans reste une question ouverte. Afin de comprendre l'impact du différentiel de température entre les pôles et l'équateur à la surface des océans sur cette circulation, un modèle d'écoulement dans une cavité, chauffée et refroidie à (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Fréderic Lechenault - LPS (ENS Paris)
Vendredi 6 janvier 2017 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Origami mechanics and multistability
Over the past thirty years, the ancient art of paper folding, or origami, has evolved into an interdisciplinary scientific field. Origami offers the possibility for new metamaterials whose overall mechanical properties can be programmed by acting locally on each crease. In particular, origami metamaterials (...)
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Séminaire PMMH : Jean-Pierre Hulin (FAST, Orsay)
2016
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Séminaire PMMH - Suzie Protière (Institut d'Alembert, UPMC)
Vendredi 16 décembre 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A1 (Urbain)
The instabilities of a granular raft
Small objects trapped at an interface are very common in Nature (waterstriders, ant rafts, bubbles or pollen, membranes…). They also find an application in industrial processes since they can act as stabilizing agents for emulsions or foams. Their study is therefore of practical as well as fundamental importance. (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - John Brady (CalTech)
Vendredi 9 décembre 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - A1 (Urbain)
Forces, Stresses and the (Thermo ?)dynamics of Active Matter
A distinguishing feature of many living systems is their ability to move - to be active. Through their motion living systems are able to self-assemble : birds flock, fish school, bacteria swarm, etc. But such behavior is not limited to living systems. Recent advances in colloid chemistry have led to the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Stéphane Popinet (Institut d'Alembert)
Vendredi 2 décembre 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Adaptive numerical methods for fluid mechanics
The equations of fluid mechanics can be used to describe natural processes over a wide range of scales, from the behaviour of micro-organisms to astrophysics. Each of these processes is in turn often controlled by internal interactions on widely different scales. Numerical methods able to efficiently resolve these (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Hamid Kellay (LOMA, Université de Bordeaux)
Vendredi 25 novembre 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Hydrodynamics experiments using soap films and soap bubbles
I will describe experiments using soap films and soap bubbles to illustrate the interest of these common objects to some fluid mechanics problems. The flow in the very thin layer of these films is basically two dimensional and this property brings fundamental differences with fluid flows in three dimensions as (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Maximilien Levesque (ENS, Paris)
Vendredi 18 novembre 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
The one molecule in a sea of others : tackling solvation at the molecular scale
by Maximilien Levesque, laboratoire PASTEUR, Ecole Normale Supérieure Physical and chemical processes in the liquid and gas phases happen in an embedding medium, a large number of solvent molecules, for instance water, that crowd the environment. To take into account this environment at the molecular scale, (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Etienne Barthel (SIMM, ESPCI)
Vendredi 4 novembre 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Telephone Cords, parrot ladders, hexagons and the like - the unexpected morphologies of thin film buckles
Thin films with large compressive residual stresses and low adhesion are prone to buckling and delamination. This is both a significant technical issue, with relevance to thin film stability, and an interesting academic problem where (non-linear) plate mechanics couples to mixed mode adhesion. This coupling (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Chinar Rana (ULB, Bruxelles)
Vendredi 21 octobre 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Effects of adsorption and viscous fingering instability on the dispersion and the form of the peaks in liquid chromatography
Liquid chromatography is a flow based separation method where, a given fluid (called eluent) displaces a miscible sample consisting of a solvent in which a mixture of solutes (also named analytes) is dissolved. The analytes are separated during the displacement because of the selective adsorption on the porous (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Brigitte Senut (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle)
Vendredi 7 octobre 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Des grands singes et des hommes : une histoire dans les arbres
À la lueur des découvertes récentes africaines, nous pouvons mieux appréhender nos origines ; mais ces dernières sont-elles vraiment africaines ? Sous quelles conditions climatiques l'émergence des grands singes modernes et des premiers hominidés peut-elle être envisagée ? Si on a souvent considéré la savane sèche comme un (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Tamas Borzsonyi (Wigner Research Center for Physics, Budapest)
Vendredi 30 septembre 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Rotation and ordering of elongated particles under shear
Ordering and alignment of elongated objects in shear flows can be observed at all length scales, in log jams on rivers, in seeds, nanorods, viruses, and even at molecular scales in nematic liquid crystals. We show, that for dry granular materials in steady shear flow the time and ensemble averaged direction of the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH : Sébastien Candel (EM2C, Centrale Paris / Académie des sciences)
Vendredi 23 septembre 2016 de 11h00 à 12h30 - A4 (Langevin)
La complexité de la combustion et comment la gérer
La combustion est une des sources de la civilisation. Son rôle actuel est considérable puisqu'elle fournit aujourd'hui 85% de l'énergie primaire consommée dans le monde. L'homme maîtrise le feu depuis un demi-million d'années mais la science de la combustion est bien plus récente. On propose dans ce séminaire un panorama (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Marino Arroyo (UPC)
Vendredi 8 juillet 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Reverse engineering the motility of euglena cells : shape transformations and the interaction with the environment
Euglenids are unicellular aquatic organisms capable of moving either by beating a flagellum or by executing dramatic and harmonious shape changes, whose function still remains unclear. These shape changes are accomplished thanks to a complex structure underlying the plasma membrane, made of interlocking (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Mónica S. N. Oliveira (Univ. of Strathclyde)
Vendredi 1er juillet 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Extension dominated flows at the microscale : from instabilities to optimisation
James Weir Fluids Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XJ, United Kingdom The use of microfluidic devices has found applications in a range of different areas, many of which make use of complex fluids, such as biofluids and polymer solutions that (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Scott Waitukaitis (Univ. Leiden)
Vendredi 24 juin 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Rabbits, Planets, Volcanoes, Dust Devils : The Surprising Physics of Granular Tribocharging
If you shuffle your feet across a carpet and touch a doorknob, you might get shocked. This is tribocharging—the transfer of electrical charge between different materials. Although it was observed as early as 600 B.C. in ancient Greece, we know surprisingly little about it. One of the most perplexing observations (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Alberto Fernandez-Nieves (Georgia Tech)
Vendredi 17 juin 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Active nematics on tori
We will discuss recent results with active nematics on toroidal surfaces. We will start by briefly discussing how we make toroidal droplets, how these evolve in time, and how we stabilize the toroidal shape. We will then address how nematic liquid crystals organize on the surface of stable tori. Despite no defects (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Carine Douarche (LPS, Univ. Paris-Sud)
Vendredi 10 juin 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Bacteria self-assemblies lead to hydrodynamic instabilities
The mechanisms of the bacterial motility and chemotaxis are now quite well known at the single cell level ; however the way a whole cell population moves at a macroscopic scale still raises some fundamental questions. The study of the behavior of a population of Escherichia coli in oxygen gradients in the bulk of (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Roland Winkler (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Vendredi 3 juin 2016 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Bureau d'Etudes
Microswimmer : From swimming bacteria to collective behaviors of active Brown
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Séminaire PMMH - Suzie Protière (Institut d'Alembert, UPMC)