Seminars

PMMH’s weekly seminar is held every Friday at 11 am (map)

Contact :
Stéphane Perrard
Etienne Reyssat
Virgile Thiévenaz
responsables-seminaires (arobase) pmmh.espci.fr

PMMH
BARRE CASSAN
BAT A 1ER ETAGE CASE 18
7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France

Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22


Séminaire PMMH - Imgard Bischofberger, MIT

Vendredi 7 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1

Flowing through a world of patterns

Why is there so much structure, order and texture to life and nature, rather than a featureless expanse ? From microscopic snowflakes to dried mud and vast river networks, pattern formation gives rise to systems of extraordinary intricacy and beauty. Understanding how a system spontaneously selects its overall structure remains an ongoing scientific challenge. In this talk, I will do something everyone advises against doing ; tell a number of only questionably connected stories, centered on pattern growth in complex fluids, without much of a general storyline. My goal is to provide an overview of my students' research and to show you the types of questions that drive our work. I will tell you about fluid instabilities and how we can structure liquid crystals with flows, about bubbles and fractures in dense suspensions, and about crack formation in drying drops of colloidal suspensions. The hope is to spark discussions and interactions with all of you !

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Recent seminars  (7)

  • Séminaire PMMH – Olga Dudko (University of California at San Diego)
    Vendredi 18 avril de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
  • Séminaire PMMH - Máté Nagy (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
    Vendredi 11 avril de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
    Physics of animal collective behavior : interactions with one another and their environment
    The breathtaking aerial displays and mesmerizing formations of birds, fish shoals and the thunderous gallop of hundreds of horses exemplify captivating group behaviors in nature. Traditional measurement methods fall short in capturing these intricate behaviors arising from simple individual interactions, (…)
  • Séminaire PMMH - Máté Nagy (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
    Vendredi 11 avril de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
    Physics of animal collective behavior : interactions with one another and their environment
    The breathtaking aerial displays and mesmerizing formations of birds, fish shoals and the thunderous gallop of hundreds of horses exemplify captivating group behaviors in nature. Traditional measurement methods fall short in capturing these intricate behaviors arising from simple individual interactions, (…)
  • Séminaire PMMH
    Vendredi 4 avril de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
  • Séminaire PMMH - Pascale Aussillous, Polytech' & Aix Marseille Université
    Vendredi 28 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
    Discharge Flow of a Granular Media from a Silo : Experimental investigations and continuum modeling
    Silos are widely used in the industry. While empirical predictions of the flow rate, based on scaling law, exist for more than a century, recently advances have been made on the understanding of the control parameters of the flow. In particular using a continuum model together with a visco-plastic frictional (…)
  • Séminaire PMMH – Charlotte de Blois (FAST, U. Paris-Saclay)
    Vendredi 21 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
  • Séminaire PMMH – Anand U. Oza (NJIT, USA)
    Vendredi 14 mars de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
    Coarse-grained models for schooling swimmers in fast flows
    The beautiful displays exhibited by fish schools and bird flocks have long fascinated scientists, but the role of their complex behavior remains largely unknown. In particular, the influence of hydrodynamic interactions on schooling and flocking has been the subject of debate in the scientific literature. I will (…)

Information for the speakers

The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.

Link to cofee seminar (internal, every Thursday)


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Practical information

Laboratoire : 01 40 79 45 22
Directeur : Ramiro GODOY DIANA
Codirecteur : Laurent DUCHEMIN
Administratrice : Frédérique AUGER (01 40 79 45 22)
Gestionnaire : Claudette BAREZ (01 40 79 58 53)
Courriel : dir (arobase) pmmh.espci.fr