The summer school of Master Mechanics of Sustainable Materials and Structures (MS²) was held at Centrale Nantes from October 13 to 18, 2025 on the theme of “Multiscale approaches to architectural and microstructural materials and metamaterials”. Led by Prof. Angela Madeo and Prof. Jean-François Ganghoffer, the event brought together PhD…
On November 19 and 20, 2025, GeM is organizing a thematic workshop at Centrale Nantes on dynamic fragmentation for solids. This event, dedicated to the dynamic case of fragmentation and rapid crack propagation, will bring together French-speaking researchers and specialists in the field. The program includes a dozen presentations, poster…
Organised by GeM and the Franco-Cameroonian team of the CNRS AI4EB project Artificial intelligence (AI) now plays a central role in the development of analysis and optimisation techniques in many fields, particularly in the study of materials in civil engineering. AI tools make it possible to process and analyse large…
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 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 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…
ALERT Doctoral School 2023 wille take place from September 28th until 30st 2023 during ALERT Geomaterials Workshop and School in Aussois. The thematic of this edition is “Machine Learning (ML) in Geomechanics” and is coordinated by Ioannis Stefanou (GeM) and Félix Darve (3SR). See the programme The school is addressed…
