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.…

** Immune repertoires as self-organised evolving systems **, Aleksandra Walczak from LPENS.  This seminar will take place at the seminar room of Gulliver C1.62  at 11:30. Abstract:Living systems often attempt to calculate and predict the future state of the environment.  Given the stochastic nature of many biological systems how is that possible? How is this system…