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Bowling Night with HEAD Lab. & LFMI!

Welcome Çağdaş!

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Upcoming Seminars

MechE Colloquium: Making and measuring the most slippery water-repellent surfaces

Abstract: Water-repellent surfaces have the attractive property of staying dry, and find applications in self-cleaning, anti-icing, anti-fogging and much more. These surfaces stay dry because water droplets experience low…

24.02.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Robin Ras, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

MechE Colloquium: Under Construction: Building with Robots Beyond Automation

03.03.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Stefana Parascho, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

MechE Colloquium: Elastic instabilities in soft hydraulics

10.03.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Matteo Pezzulla, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aarhus University
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

MechE Colloquium: Problems of Planktonic Navigation

17.03.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Christophe Eloy, Centrale Méditerranée, IRPHE institute, Aix-Marseille Université
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

MechE Colloquium: Mechanically-driven closure of extreme membrane wounds in a single cell

24.03.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Sindy KY Tang, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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MEchanics GAthering –MEGA- Seminar: How distinct active force modes shape emergent structures and dynamics in non-equilibrium fluid tissues

Abstract: Tissue mechanical states are tightly regulated by biochemical processes, and distinct mechanisms modulating cellular and subcellular mechanical properties are known to induce solid-to-fluid transitions. While…

26.02.2026 13:0514:00

Speaker: Alessandro Rizzi (MESOBIO, EPFL)
Location: ME B1 10 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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