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Prof. Yim highlights role of fluid mechanics in sustainable energy

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Prof. Eunok Yim highlights role of fluid mechanics in sustainable energy at EPFL Engineering Day

First HEAD Lab Outing!

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First lab outing!

Bowling Night with HEAD Lab. & LFMI!

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Bowling Night with HEAD Lab. & LFMI!

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Upcoming Seminars

MechE Colloquium: Problems of Planktonic Navigation

Abstract: Plankton face the challenging task of navigating oceanic turbulence using only hydrodynamic and chemical cues to escape predators or catch prey. This seminar focuses on one of such tasks: the problem of vertical…

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
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MechE Colloquium: Fold, Snap, and Jump: Nature-Inspired Nonlinear Mechanics for Adaptive Matter

31.03.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Mingchao Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
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MechE Colloquium: Functional materials for renewable energy storage and conversion – sustainable and scalable materials design for photocatalysts and battery materials

07.04.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Simone Pokrant, Department Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

MechE Colloquium: When Materials Bend the Rules: Buckling Response of Slender Structures Born of Constitutive Nonlinearities

14.04.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Draga Pihler-Puzović, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

MechE Colloquium : Instability and breakdown phenomena in vortical flows

28.04.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Leweque, IRPHE-CNRS, Marseille, France
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

MechE Colloquium: Toward a unified variational model of material failure

19.05.2026 12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Corrado Maurini, ∂’Alembert Institute, Sorbonne University Paris
Location: MED 0 1418 & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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