Thèodore Cherrière (Centrale Supèlec, France)
Date: September 4, 2025
Title: Adjoint variable method and applications: from design optimization to force computation
Robert Style (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Date: July 3, 2025
Title: How freezing breaks soft, wet materials
Konstantinos Karapiperis (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Date: June 26, 2025
Title: Physics-informed data-driven modeling for the mechanics of soils and structures
Francois Barthelat (University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.)
Date: June 19, 2025
Title: Two examples of granular materials “engineered” for strength: Granular crystals, entangled matter
Antonio Somma (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Date: June 12, 2025
Title: Haptics and music
Samuel Forest (Centre de Matèriaux, Mines Paris PSL, France)
Date: June 05, 2025
Title: Stored energy vs dissipation in gradient crystal plasticity: Application to cyclic plasticity and recrystallization
Christos Vassilicos (LFML, Lille, France)
Date: May 22, 2025
Title: A certain prediction of production of uncertainty
Min Wu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.)
Date: May 15, 2025
Title: Continuum Modeling of Mechanical Feedback and Stress Relaxation in Growth-Elasticity: Theory and Applications
Christian Franck (University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.)
Date: May 15, 2025
Title: Inertial cavitation in Soft Matter – Friend or Foe?
Francois Hild (Laboratoire de Mècanique Paris-Saclay, France)
Date: March 20, 2025
Title: Contributions of 4D imaging in mechanics of materials
Maria Teresa Pèrez Prado (IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain)
Date: March 13, 2025
Title: Metallurgy meets architecture: Unlocking the potential of 3D-printed metamaterials
Marc Geers (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Date: March 06, 2025
Title: A continuum consistent particle method for discrete fracture events and phase transformations in silicon
John Kolinski (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Date: February 27, 2025
Title: Make it and break it: Contact and Cracks at soft interfaces
Harsha Bhat (Ecole Normale Supèrieure, France)
Date: February 13, 2025
Title: Fault Volume: A paradigm for Reconciling Modern Observations of Active Faults
Arthur Lebèe (Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées, France)
Date: February 06, 2025
Title: Characterization of rolling and longitudinal shear creep for cross-laminated timber panels
Gwennou Coupier (University of Grenoble-Alpes, France)
Date: January 23, 2025
Title: Flow generation through buckling instability: from beach balls to microswimmers
Antony Beris (University of Delaware, U.S.A.)
Date: January 16, 2025
Title: On the use of the Single Generator Bracket Formalism of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics for the development of the equations of Continuum Mechanics
Laurent Stainier (Ecole Centrale Nantes, France)
Date: January 09, 2025
Title: Data-driven computational mechanics and physics of materials
Marie A. Charpagne (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.)
Date: December 19, 2024
Title: Grain boundary engineering in metal additive manufacturing
Triona Lally (Trinity College Dublin)
Date: December 11, 2024
Title: Made to measure: Designing and optimising 3D printed patient specific stents
Joint talk: John Hutchinson (Harvard University, U.S.A.) and Pedro Reis (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Date: December 05, 2024
Title: Imperfection Sensitivity in Shell Buckling: Longstanding Questions and New Answers