Friday November 21st at 2 pm, ESPCI, amphi Holweck, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris Resource recovery and treatment of water using porous composite materials, Dr Romy Ettlinger; Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching b. München, Germany AbstractIn an era of crisis, overpopulation and industrial-related release of hazardous waste into our waterbodies, innovative technologies are…

The following seminar will be given, Friday Novembre 21 at 3:00 pm (Paris time),  Room Charpak, entrance building, ground floor:Magnetic, metal-insulator and superconducting transitions in Moire  transition metal dicalcogenides by Andrew Millis, Columbia University and Center for Computational Quantum Physics, the Flatiron Institute One unit cell thick layers of materials such as WSe2 may be stacked one on top of the…

Monday, 24th of November at 11:30, we have the pleasure to listen to Sophie Marbach from Phenix (Sorbonne) : The Countoscope: Quantifying Dynamics by Counting Particles in Boxes. Quantifying the dynamics of particle suspensions is a widespread interest in soft matter. For instance, probing the motion of cells or larger organisms can help us understand…

Thursday November 27, we will have the pleasure to host Jérôme Claverie (Université de Sherbrooke) for a SIMM Seminar entitled « Functional Polyelectrolyte Dispersants:  Mechanistic Insights and Applications in Printed and Coated Materials ». The seminar will take place at 2 pm in Amphi Charpak.Functional Polyelectrolyte Dispersants:  Mechanistic Insights and Applications in Printed and Coated…

 Monday, 15th of December at 14:00, we will have the pleasure to listen to Dr. Sonja Schmid, from the University of Basel, Switzerland and Prof. Felix Ritort from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Sonja will talk about Dye-Cycling, allowing hour-long single-molecule FRET observations and overcoming photo-bleaching for biological studies. Felix will talk about RNA folding landscapes in low-temperature conditions using single-RNA force spectroscopy. reaking the photobleaching…

The following seminar will be given, Thursday December 18 at 11:00 am (Paris time),  Room Charpak, entrance building, ground floor: Single-spin quantum sensing:  A molecule-on-tip approachby Laurent Limot, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPCMS, UMR 7504, F-67000 Strasbourg, FranceMagnetometry plays a pivotal role in meeting the demands of ultra-dense storage technology and overcoming challenges associated with downscaled spin qubits. A promising approach for atomic-scale…

Thursday December 18, we will have the pleasure to host Didier Long (INSA Lyon) for a SIMM Seminar entitled «  Theory of brittle-to-tough transition in polymer materials ». The seminar will take place at 2 pm in the Nobelium room (please note the unusual place). Theory of brittle-to-tough transition in polymer materials Polymer materials of different types…

Steady state viscoelastic crack growth in a pure shear sample Chung-Yuen Hui1Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Field of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, E-mail:  classical problem in viscoelastic fracture is the steady-state growth of a crack under small-scale creeping (SSD) conditions. Under SSD, the size of the damage zone is assumed to be much smaller than…

Next Monday,  19th of January at 11:30, we have the pleasure to listen to Manish Kushwaha from Micalis Institute, INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas. The title of Manish's talk is:**  Bacteriophages as Communication Signals: Information Processing in Multicellular Bacterial Systems **This seminar will take place at the seminar room of Gulliver C1.62  at 11:30.AbstractCoordinated actions of cells in…