MechDay 2026

Pôle de Mécanique

The MechDay is a joint annual event bringing together faculty, postdocs, and PhD students from the three mechanics laboratories of the building.

  Amphi 104 - Pôle de Mécanique

  10th of September (9 a.m - 5 p.m.)

  registration link to come

  Schedule

Morning Session

Time Event / Speaker Title
09:00 – 09:30   Welcome Coffee
09:30 – 10:15   Cécile Sykes (ENS Paris) Biophysics and biomechanics of cell motility
10:15 – 10:30   Short Talk Lab Talk
10:30 – 10:45   Short Talk Lab Talk
10:45 – 11:15   Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00   Anne-Laure Dalibard (LJLL, Sorbonne Université) Theoretical challenges in climate sciences
12:00 – 12:15   Short Talk Lab Talk
12:15 – 12:30   Short Talk Lab Talk

  12:30 – 14:00 · Lunch Buffet
Pôle mecanique’s hall

Afternoon Session

Time Event / Speaker Title
14:00 – 14:45   Florence Bertails-Descoubes (INRIA Grenoble) Numerical modelling of contacting fibres for movies, inverse design, and physical exploration
14:45 – 15:00   Short Talk Lab Talk
15:00 – 15:15   Short Talk Lab Talk
15:15 – 15:30   Short Break
15:30 – 16:15   Marios Kotsonis (TU Delft) On the quest for passive laminar flow: from metamaterials to surface humps
16:15 – 16:30   Short Talk Lab Talk
16:30 – 16:45   Short Talk Lab Talk
16:45 – 17:00   Concluding Remarks