The “Yvette Cauchois (1908–1999)” Poster Prize was awarded to the winners of the three best posters on January 20, 2026, during the annual Mécamat Aussois 2026 conference, whose theme this year was “Images, Mechanics, Materials.” Lilou Gautier, a Ph.D. student at GeM, received a joint second prize for her poster…
The Mécamat association holds its annual national conference at the CNRS Paul Langevin Center in Aussois (Savoie) at the end of January. Each event features a different theme, proposed by a multi-disciplinary team. For its 2026 edition, the conference aims to highlight advances in the use of images in the…
The SEALENCE chair aims to develop predictive tools for the design of elastomer parts subjected to extreme conditions, particularly in the naval sector. This flagship partnership project combines experimentation, modelling and simulation to overcome a major scientific barrier: understanding the compressibility of polymers. Find out more…
Image-based Characterisation of extreme dynamic solid-state flows This research project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), is a Young Researcher project (JCJC) led by Rian Seghir, CNRS Research Scientist, in collaboration with Professors Thomas Heuzé (ENIB, Brest) and Guillaume Racineux, and research engineer Xiadong Liu at GeM, Centrale…
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 surveillance of port and offshore structures is a growing challenge for operators who are looking for ever more efficient solutions. A call for expressions of interest, launched by the Syndicat Mixte des Ports de Loire-Atlantique and the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique, has enabled CAPACITÉS and GeM to stand out…
Ziad MAKSASSI, PhD student at GeM – Nantes Université in collaboration with the LTeN (Laboratoire de Thermique et Énergie de Nantes) received the Student Poster Award during the 13th Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference – ATCP 2022 organized in Sendai (Japan) and which was held online from September 26th until 30st…
