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

  Schedule

Morning Session

Time Event / Speaker Title
09:00 – 09:30   Welcome Coffee
09:30 – 10:15   Cécile Sykes (CNRS and laboratoire de physique de l’ENS Paris) Biophysics and biomechanics of cell motility
10:15 – 10:30   Arianna Giannetti (LadHyX) Tomographic shearmetry of dynamic flows at cell surfaces using nanoprobes
10:30 – 10:45   Louis Lesueur (LMS) PlastiNN: A neural network-based framework for real-time finite-strain plasticity simulations
10:45 – 11:15   Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00   Anne-Laure Dalibard (LJLL, Sorbonne Université) Theoretical challenges for oceanic western boundary currents
12:00 – 12:15   Alexis AUBEL (LMD) Observed large-scale trapping of gravity waves within the free troposphere
12:15 – 12:30   Marion Cocusse (LadHyX) Dissipative anomaly in 2D turbulence under the full Coriolis force

  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   Thomas Lavigne (LMS) Integrating Cellular Contractility into Poroelastic Models of Collagen Hydrogels
15:00 – 15:15   André de Figueiredo Stabile (IMSIA) Invariant manifolds for model-order reduction of fluids and structures: application to systems experiencing Hopf bifurcations
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   Marc Vacher (LadHyX/PMMH/Saint-Gobain) Sloshing instabilities induced by upward flows
16:30 – 16:45   Augustus Chukwu (IMSIA/LMI/ONERA) Identification of Aircraft Nonlinear Vibrations via Experimental Continuation Methods
16:45 – 17:00   Concluding Remarks