News at Centrale Nantes

Centrale Nantes is launching a new Mooc on probability and Bayesian estimation. Registration opens on 28 February.

Centrale Nantes is hosting the research school "High-dimensional approximation and Deep Learning" from 16 to 20 May.

Kymatio offers a new methodological perspective on AI by combining deep learning and wavelet theory.

Development of a creep assessment protocol for underwater structures: design of a multi-scale model and a chemo-mechanical experimental device

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.

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.

Combination of direct and indirect visual SLAM in an industrial environment

Centrale Nantes is hosting the research school "High-dimensional approximation and Deep Learning" from 16 to 20 May.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In our fourth edition of 2022, we meet Myriam Servières, Deputy Director of the Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités Laboratory

Analysis and design of an intrinsically safe underactuated parallel robot

Maritime transport is currently experiencing rapid growth and it is also the most efficient form of transport in terms of GHG emissions (gCO2/Tonne/km). Centrale Nantes, via the LHEEA, and MAN Energy Solutions have been working together on this subject since 2018, as part of an industrial chair on the gradual decarbonisation of marine propulsion and electricity production. Read on for an update on this chair.

Centrale Nantes features in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings for the fourth consecutive year and is ranked in 8th place among the French institutions in the ranking.

Learn more about studying at Centrale Nantes during the Choose France! Education fair ASIA 2022.

The cast iron shells of the IBOCS project developed by FMGC to ballast submarine electrical cables have been successfully removed from the SEM-REV test site! They were immersed on site for 3½ years, with regular monitoring throughout the experiment within the European FORESEA and OCEAN DEMO programmes. We take a look back at this experiment!

Jean-Jacques Ingremeau, an expert in nuclear physics and accidents at the IRSN (Institut de Radioprotection et Sûreté Nucléaire) will give a conference on the safety of nuclear reactors from 5 to 7 pm in Lecture Theatre S on 14 April. Also broadcast live on Zoom.

Study of hydro-mechanical instabilities in geomaterials

Are you a high school student in Indonesia interested in pursuing a bachelor programme combining engineering and management in France? Join us online for a Campus France Indonesia webinar presenting the BBA Big Data and Management at Centrale Nantes and Audencia on Thursday 14 April.

Enedis has already connected more than 536,000 renewable energy installations in the Pays de la Loire region and is committed to playing an active role in renewable energy development across France. The power grid operator has thus responded positively to the requested increase in power capacity on Centrale Nantes' offshore test site, SEM-REV.

Improvement of the quantification of yttrium-90 PET images

Numerical and experimental study of flows around a flexible hydrofoil, including cavitating conditions

Development of an automotive testing methodology combining real-time models and engine testbench (HIL approach)

Colin Bonatti, post-doctoral fellow with the Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Mechanics and Manufacturing, MAVT Department at ETH Zurich, will give a conference on Thursday 7 April 2022 at 2 pm at Centrale Nantes.

Meet the people behind the research at Centrale Nantes in our series of video interviews. In our third edition of 2022, we meet Jean-Yves Hascoët, of the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).