June 5 – 2 pm – Amphi Charpak, ESPCI Paris-PSL. Bio-inspired Buoyant Gas Bubble-Encapsulating Microcapsules (GEMs), Daeyeon Lee Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Many aquatic microorganisms, such as cyanobacteria and green algae, rely on intracellular gas vesicles—protein nanostructures with tunable collapse thresholds—to regulate buoyancy, navigate light gradients, and avoid predation. Similarly, vascular…

June 6 – 10 am – Amphi Charpak Emulsion-Templated Synthesis of Functional Microcapsules Using Droplet Microfluidics Hyomin Lee Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea.  Microfluidically generated emulsions provide a powerful platform for the synthesis of structurally and compositionally tunable microcapsules, offering advanced capabilities in the encapsulation, retention, and controlled…

A l’occasion de son séjour comme professeur invité à l’ESPCI Paris-PSL (Chaire Joliot), le Professeur José Alemán de l’Université Autonome de Madrid (Froncat group, https://josealemanlara.wixsite.com/froncat) donnera deux cours : Mardi 10 Juin 2025, Amphithéâtre Charpak (Espace des Sciences Pierre Gilles de Gennes), ESPCI Paris - 10h30-12h : « Organocatalysis, a historical perspective »- 14h30-16h :…

Dynamics of neuronal avalanches and other collective behavior  By Karin A. Dahmen,. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, at ESPCI, Room Charpak, entrance building, ground floor. The tasks of neural computation are remarkably diverse. To function optimally, neuronal networks have been hypothesized to operate near a nonequilibrium critical point. We use the…

Alexandra Bridarolli (C2RMF, Center for Research and Conservation of the French Museums) for a SIMM seminar this Thursday June 12 at 2 pm in Amphi Charpak. The title of Alexandra's talk is "Climate and Collections: Impact of Climatic Variations on the Mechanical Behavior of Heritage Materials". Climate and Collections: Impact of Climatic Variations on the Mechanical Behavior of Heritage Materials In the…

Universal Features of Emergent Electronic Fractals in Quantum Material by Erica W. Carlson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, at ESPCI, Room Charpak, entrance building, ground floor.  Electrons inside of many quantum materials spontaneously form clumpy patterns on multiple length scales. By importing techniques from disordered statistical mechanics into the field of quantum materials, we…