News at Centrale Nantes

Contributions to utilize a Cobot as intermittent contact haptic interfaces in virtual reality

CFM (French Mechanics Congress) brings together the French and French-speaking community in the field of mechanics under the aegis of the Association Française de Mécanique (AFM). The 2022 edition will be hosted in Nantes, from 29 August to 2 September. It is organised by Centrale Nantes, the CNRS, alongside Nantes University, the University of La Rochelle and the École Navale.

The journal 'Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements' established its Best Paper Award in 2018 as an annual award for articles with the most scientific impact in the three preceding years. The journal itself has an impact factor of 3.3, having climbed steadily in recent years. The article's lead author, PengNan Sun, spent 2 years as a Post-Doc at the LHEEA between 2018 and 2020.

The "MEA & AFLOWT Innovation Tour" gathered more than 100 participants from all over Europe on June 29 and 30 around Marine Renewable Energies at Centrale Nantes. This event was organized by Centrale Nantes, SEM-REV and WEAMEC within the framework of the MEA and AFLOWT projects, both funded by Interreg North West Europe.

The 2022 edition of the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects is now out. Centrale Nantes stands out in Mechanical Engineering, climbing to the top 151-200, and entering the Management ranking in the top 301-400.

Jeroen Wackers, a research engineer in the METHRIC team, works on the simulation of maritime flows using the automatic mesh refinement method. These simulations provide an understanding into the interactions between a ship and its environment in real conditions in order to optimise the energy performance of ships.

Tour Into Painting : System Design for Virtual Exhibition of Chinese Hand-Scroll Painting

The 3-week Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Manufacturing (IESMA) - EIT Manufacturing Summer School - is currently underway at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). Two faculty members from Centrale Nantes presented a module on Design Thinking in week one.

Rogue waves are very high ocean waves, compared to their immediate neighbours, which can form on both calm and rough seas. This sudden and unpredictable phenomenon may be rare, but it needs to be studied because of its danger to sea users. These rogue waves are the subject of joint collaboration between researchers from Centrale Nantes - via the LHEEA - the CNRS and the universities of Paris and Lille as part of the ANR DYSTURB project.

Development of a knowledge based decision-aid framework for managing the additive manufacturing value chain

Stanford University has recently published an updated list of the top 2% most widely cited scientists in different disciplines - the World's Top 2% Scientists. 16 researchers from Centrale Nantes are included in the updated list - up from 9 last year.

Larry Lessard is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University in Canada.

Low-rank and sparse approximations for contact mechanics

Are you a student, researcher, doctor, nurse, physiotherapist or psychologist? LUNG O2 is holding a summer school to raise your awareness of precision medicine applied to respiratory disease.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In this edition we meet assistant professor Vincent Leroy in the LHEEA Laboratory - a young researcher working on offshore wind.

Longitudinal monitoring of metastatic breast cancer through PET image registration and segmentation methods based on trained and untrained neural networks.

Come along to the next TEDxRennes to meet Rebecca Fribourg, Associate Professor at Centrale Nantes, Luciano Vidal, researcher in the GeM Institute and Emma Biard, a recent Centrale Nantes graduate. All three will be speaking at the next edition on 25 June.

Development of a fast and reliable solver based on simplified formulae for ship grounding analyses

Successful entrepreneurs are showing deeper commitment to society nowadays. We know about Bill Gates or Sara Blakely, but France also has more and more of them. Why do they get involved? How do they do it? What do they think about the role of entrepreneurs for the future of our societies? Sciences Po Alumni Ouest Atlantique is holding a conference (in French) on this subject at Centrale Nantes with the testimony of two well-known figures, Yann Rolland and Denis Metzger.

Centrale Nantes is fully committed to actions to combat violence and discrimination. The school appointed Marta Herrera Equality & Diversity Coordinator at Centrale Nantes on 1 June 2022.