This page serves as an archive of past talks in the LMS seminar series. It includes links to the announcements and recordings (when available) of the past seminars.
Minh-Son Pham (Imperial College London)
Title: Self-similar metamaterials with spatial and temporal hierarchy
Franciso Lopez Jiménez (University of Colorado Boulder)
Title: Cellular solids under geometric frustration: Animal architecture and bio-inspired designs
Isaac Chenchiah (University of Bristol)
Title: Morphing structures: From art to science
Rémy Gauthier (INSA Lyon)
Title: Bone mechanobiology: toward new tools to learn more
Claude Delangle (Conservatoire de Paris)
Title: Les voies du saxophone
Anne Tanguy (LaMCoS, INSA Lyon/ONERA, U. Paris-Saclay/LMS, Ecole Polytechnique)
Title: A mechanical description of thermal conductivity and its applications
[February 05, 2026] Felicity Freeman (University of Sheffield)
Title: Microstructural Control for Functional Grading
[January 22, 2026] Samuel Hemery (ISAE-ENSMA)
Title: From cyclic deformation to fatigue crack nucleation at basal twist grain boundaries in the Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy
[January 15, 2026] Sébastien Merkel (Université de Lille)
Title: Plasticity, deformation and microstructures under deep planetary interior conditions
[January 08, 2026] Thao (Vicky) Nguyen (Johns Hopkins University)
Title: Modeling the Unique Thermomechanical Behaviors of Liquid Crystal Elastomers
[December 11, 2025] A symposium to honor Prof. Patrick Le Tallec
Title: Modeling in Applied Mechanics: A symposium in honor of Prof. Patrick Le Tallec
[December 4, 2025] LMS internal (Moderator: Kostas Danas)
Title: Architected materials
[November 20, 2025] Vito Rubino (Ecole Centrale Nantes)
Title: Dynamic rupture behavior and friction evolution revealed by laboratory experiments using ultra high-speed digital image correlation
[November 06, 2025] LMS internal (Moderator: Julie Diani)
Title: Microstructures
[October 16, 2025] Rian Seghir (Ecole Centrale Nantes)
Title: If images could talk: An image-based approach for characterizing dynamic responses in solid mechanics
[October 09, 2025] Burigede Liu (University of Cambridge)
Title: Operator learning in mechanics and materials
[October 02, 2025] Jonathan Cormier (ISAE-ENSMA)
Title: Factors controlling VHCF life of Ni-based single crystal superalloys
[September 25, 2025] LMS internal (Moderator: Laurent Guin)
Title: Multi-physical coupling in mechanics
[September 18, 2025] Thomas Cornèlius (IM2NP, Aix-Marseilles University)
Title: Mechanical behavior at the nanoscale in the light of synchrotron X-ray diffraction
[September 4, 2025] Thèodore Cherrière (Centrale Supèlec, France)
Title: Adjoint variable method and applications: from design optimization to force computation
[July 3, 2025] Robert Style (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Title: How freezing breaks soft, wet materials
[June 26, 2025] Konstantinos Karapiperis (EPFL, Switzerland)
Title: Physics-informed data-driven modeling for the mechanics of soils and structures
[June 19, 2025] Francois Barthelat (University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.)
Title: Two examples of granular materials “engineered” for strength: Granular crystals, entangled matter
[June 12, 2025] Antonio Somma (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Title: Haptics and music
[June 05, 2025] Samuel Forest (Centre de Matèriaux, Mines Paris PSL, France)
Title: Stored energy vs dissipation in gradient crystal plasticity: Application to cyclic plasticity and recrystallization
[May 22, 2025] Christos Vassilicos (LFML, Lille, France)
Title: A certain prediction of production of uncertainty
[May 15, 2025] Min Wu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.)
Title: Continuum Modeling of Mechanical Feedback and Stress Relaxation in Growth-Elasticity: Theory and Applications
[May 15, 2025] Christian Franck (University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.)
Title: Inertial cavitation in Soft Matter – Friend or Foe?
[March 20, 2025] Francois Hild (Laboratoire de Mècanique Paris-Saclay, France)
Title: Contributions of 4D imaging in mechanics of materials
[March 13, 2025] Maria Teresa Pèrez Prado (IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain)
Title: Metallurgy meets architecture: Unlocking the potential of 3D-printed metamaterials
[March 06, 2025] Marc Geers (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Title: A continuum consistent particle method for discrete fracture events and phase transformations in silicon
[February 27, 2025] John Kolinski (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Title: Make it and break it: Contact and Cracks at soft interfaces
[February 13, 2025] Harsha Bhat (Ecole Normale Supèrieure, France)
Title: Fault Volume: A paradigm for Reconciling Modern Observations of Active Faults
[February 06, 2025] Arthur Lebèe (Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées, France)
Title: Characterization of rolling and longitudinal shear creep for cross-laminated timber panels
[January 23, 2025] Gwennou Coupier (University of Grenoble-Alpes, France)
Title: Flow generation through buckling instability: from beach balls to microswimmers
[January 16, 2025] Antony Beris (University of Delaware, U.S.A.)
Title: On the use of the Single Generator Bracket Formalism of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics for the development of the equations of Continuum Mechanics
[January 09, 2025] Laurent Stainier (Ecole Centrale Nantes, France)
Title: Data-driven computational mechanics and physics of materials
[December 19, 2024] Marie A. Charpagne (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.)
Title: Grain boundary engineering in metal additive manufacturing
[December 11, 2024] Triona Lally (Trinity College Dublin)
Title: Made to measure: Designing and optimising 3D printed patient specific stents
[December 05, 2024] Joint talk: John Hutchinson (Harvard University, U.S.A.) and Pedro Reis (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Title: Imperfection Sensitivity in Shell Buckling: Longstanding Questions and New Answers