Research news and events 2017

See you on Tuesday 19th December, on the Centrale Nantes campus for the first edition of the "Matinales de la transition écologique" (Ecological Transition Mornings). On the programme - Samuel Courgey, project manager and specialist in insulation using natural materials, talks about his experience.

TEDx Centrale Nantes: "A new brave world" on campus on Saturday 9th December. Get your tickets now!

The Centrale Nantes Team Voile (Sailing Association) invites you to a conference-debate on the theme of "Safety at Sea", which will be given by first Officer Pierre-André Saladay, navigator, radar operator and tactician on the Falcon 50 in the 24F fleet of the French Navy. See you on campus on November 22nd.

"Modelling, simulation, artificial intelligence ... Discover the super powers of high performance computing!" Visit the campus on 21 November for a breakfast meeting on high performance computing and a visit of the supercomputer organized by Atlanpôle, technopole and member of the European Business and Innovation Centre Network.

What place should digital objects - from robots to screens – have in childhood? Join in the discussion and discover new experiments in therapeutic and/ or family mediation. Sign up for the free conference, from 7pm to 9pm on Tuesday, November 21st in the Maxi Room at STEREOLUX.

Prof. LAURENCE BRASSART, Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University, in Australia, is at Centrale Nantes from 20 November 2017 to 22 December 2017. She was invited by Laurent Stainier, member of faculty in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).

As part of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange-Guépin's activities on "digital societies", its Steering Committee is organizing a doctoral event on 15 and 16 November 2017 on the following two themes: "Transformation of digital practices "and" Criticism, appropriation, resistance". Sign up now!

Centrale Nantes will be present at Composites Meetings - the international business convention for composite manufacturers and users - on the 8th and 9th November 2017 at the Cité Nantes Events Center.

Following a first successful test flight on October 30, 2017, the world's first drone, which is autonomous in energy and decision-making, was inaugurated on Monday, November 6th. The drone was designed by a French start-up, XSun, in partnership with Centrale Nantes, Airbus and Dassault Systèmes.Powered by solar energy, its consumes less than its capacity to recharge itself. The drone is thus set to smash the world record for flight duration in 2018.

The Marine Renewable Energy Research Group is organizing a training programme on marine renewable energies from Monday 16 to Friday 20 October in Nantes.

Prof PETAR MINEV, Director of the Applied Mathematics Institute, University of Alberta, Canada, is at Centrale Nantes from 14 October 2017 to 14 December 2017. He was invited by Thierry Coupez, member of faculty in the High Performance Computing Institute.

Centrale Nantes - AAU and INRIA Rennes are co-organising the next IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). It will be held at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes from 9th to 13th October 2017. Online registration is now available.

The Centrale Nantes supercomputer team will tell you all about this powerful machine installed on the school’s campus on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at the Salon de la Data (Data Fair), the flagship event of Nantes Digital Week.

Suresh Gopaldas ADVANI, George W. Laird Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delware, is at Centrale Nantes from 13 September 2017 to 7 June 2018 (except 1st January to 1st March 2018). He was invited by Christophe Binetruy, member of faculty in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).

Centrale Nantes hosted PHYSMOD for the first time this summer (Workshop on PHYSical MODdeling of flow and dispersion phenomena), a biennial international conference bringing together international experts and young researchers on wind tunnel modelling of atmospheric flows.

Workshop on PHYSical MODeling of flow and dispersion phenomena.

Professor Vladimir Kucera, internationally-renowned automation specialist from the Czech Technical University in Prague, will be presenting the results of his research on decoupling at a seminar on 20 June at Centrale Nantes.

Jesus DE LEON, Professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL), Mexico, is in Centrale Nantes from 19 June to 19 July. He was invited by Malek Ghanes, member of faculty at the LS2N Laboratory, within the framework of the Renault-Centrale Nantes Chair dedicated to the propulsion performance of electric vehicles.

Professor Yuri SHTESSEL of the University of Alabama in the United States, will be at Centrale Nantes from 16 to 30 June. He was invited by Malek GHANES, of the LS2N Laboratory.

PhD students, post-docs, researchers, lecturers and engineers - join us in Nantes from 21 to 24 May 2017 for the 35th RUGC (Rencontres universitaires de Génie Civil de l’Association Universitaire de Génie Civil), organised by the GeM (Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering - Centrale Nantes & Nantes University).

Centrale Nantes is co-organising with the Institut de Soudure Groupe the first edition of ICWAM, an international conference on welding, additive manufacturing and associated non-destructive testing from 17th to 19th May in Metz.

As part of the 7th International Conference on Calculation Methods in Marine Engineering, Centrale Nantes is organizing ECCOMAS Marine 2017 in Nantes in May.

Liang MA, Professor, and former PhD student, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, is at Centrale Nantes from 29 April to 25 June. He was invited by Damien CHABLAT, a member of faculty at the LS2N Laboratory.

Otto LAPPI, Professor at Helsinki University in Finland, is at Centrale Nantes from 3 April to 30 June. He was invited by Franck MARS, a member of faculty at the LS2N Laboratory.

(Extraordinary day of imaging, 2017) Save the date! Centrale Nantes is one of the organisers and host of the second edition of the Folle journée de l'imagerie nantaise on 7th February 2017.

During the visit of the professor Hubert Chanson, from Queensland University, Australia, he will give a conference about ‘Compression Waves and Positive Surges in Open Channels and Geophysical Applications: Tidal Bores and Tsunami Bores’.