Mechanics of slender structures in physics, biology and engineering: from failure to functionality
Workshop
The main ambition of this meeting is to bring together internationally acclaimed experts as well as young researchers in mechanics, biomechanics, biolocomotion, material science and architecture to address the current scientific challenges in these various fields. The workshop will serve as a platform to stimulate discussions, to start long-term scientific collaborations and to promote progress at the porous boundaries between research domains, such as elastic instabilities of slender objects, foldable structures /origamis/kirigamis, elasto-capillarity/fluid-structure interaction, biomechanics, bio-inspired robotics /stretchable electronics, etc.
Invited Speakers
José Bico (ESPCI, France)
Pierre-Thomas Brun (Princeton U., USA)
Itai Cohen (Cornell, USA)
Benny Davidovitch (UMass, USA)
Vincent Démery (ESPCI & ENS Lyon, France)
Alain Goriely (University of Oxford, UK)
Fumiya Iida (Cambridge, UK)
Ellen Kuhl (Stanford, USA)
Stéphanie Lacour (EPFL, Switzerland)
Julian Lienhard (str-ucture.com)
Sébastien Neukirch (CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France)
Dominique Peysson (ENSAD, France)
Draga Pihler-Puzovic (University of Manchester, UK)
Thomas Salez (University of Bordeaux, France)
Thomas Speck (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Bram Vanderborght (VUB, Belgium)
Dominic Vella (University of Oxford, UK)
Organising and Scientific Committee
Fabian Brau (ULB, Belgium)
Pascal Damman (UMons, Belgium)
Niels De Temmerman (VUB, Belgium)
Yoel Forterre (Aix-Marseille Univ., France)
Pedro Reis (EPFL, Switzerland)
Dominiek Reynaerts (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Denis Terwagne (ULB, Belgium)
