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…

Thursday January 22 at 2:00 pm (Paris time), Room Charpak, entrance building, ground floor, ESPCI, at LPEM in hybrid format:   Frontiers in THz cavity QED: Deep-strong multi-mode coupling, subcycle nonlinearities, and diabatic switchingby Christoph LangeTU Dortmund UniversityDressing matter excitations with cavity photons can create novel, exotic quantum states. Ultrastrong coupling, where the ratio of vacuum Rabi frequency and carrier…

Blaise Delmotte from LadHyX, Polytechnique. The title of Blaise's talk is: **  Nonlinear dynamics, collective motion and separation: dynamics of active and flexible particles in structured media **and the abstract is below. This talk combines microfluidic experiments, theory, and numerical simulations to investigate the dynamics of active particles and flexible particles moving through structured media.…