In October 2023, Stanford University and Elsevier updated their ranking of the World’s Top 2% Scientists. The list is based on the international transdisciplinary Scopus databases, and covers some 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. 9 GeM researchers are included in this list in the following fields: •Mechanical Engineering &…
Nantes Université organized its very first “International Staff Training Week” on the theme of Open Education from December 4 to 8, 2023. In this context, Jean-Yves Hascoët and Tugdual Le Néel, respectively University Professor and Associate Professor at Centrale Nantes, and members of the GeM within the Rapid Manufacturing UTR,…
The ‘Best Poster Award’ went to Marie Bouyx at the 10th International Conference on Fatigue Design organized by CETIM on November 29 and 30, 2023 in Senlis for her poster Numerical modeling of fatigue testing for small crack propagation from artificial defect. Marie, PhD student at GeM within the UTR…
The 2023 ALERT Geomaterials Doctoral School, organised by Ioannis Stefanou (GeM) and Felix Darve (3SR), was dedicated to “Machine Learning in Geomechanics” and took place from September 28th to September 30th 2023. A total of 170 students participated in the school, during which fundamental concepts of machine learning were taught,…
The 2nd “Ioannis Vardoulakis” thesis prize was attributed to Siddhartha H. Ommi at the annual ALERT Geomaterials workshop held in Aussois from September 25 to 27, 2023. Siddhartha completed his thesis entitled ‘Study of hydro-mechanical instabilities in geomaterials’, defended on April 14, 2022, at GeM – École Centrale de Nantes,…
The Raw Earth National Project (PN Terre Crue) will hold its 3-day annual conference in Saint-Nazaire (Campus Gavy) on October 11, 12, and 13, 2023. More than 80 participants, members of partner organizations of the National Project, are expected to attend this event co-organized by GeM and the steering committee…
The Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métier (Icam), High School of Engineering, is organizing the 9th International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures (ICCGS 2023) that will be held in its campus of Nantes, France from 11th to 13th September 2023. About seventy scientists, naval architects and…
