Self-Organization
in physics and biology, morphogenesis, turbulence, walking droplets and
non-linear physics.
Paris 4th-7th June 2024
International meeting in memory of
Yves Couder
Scientific Program
With the generous
support of
International meeting in the
honor of
Yves Couder
(1941-2019)
Paris Sciences et Lettres*/Université de Paris-Cité
The meeting is held on two sites.
The first two days on the campus of Université Paris-Cité Grands
Moulins. Amphithéâtre Buffon 15 rue Hélène Brion 75013 Paris
The last two days at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Amphi Jaurès Accès
via 24 rue Lhomond 75005 Paris, enter and cross the garden.
Program
Tuesday,
4th June 2024-Amphithéâtre Buffon,
15 rue Hélène Brion 75013
Université de Paris-Cité @Grands Moulins
S
stands for Selected abstract
8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee
Session I Yves Couder Legacy
9:00-9:15 Welcome Laurent Limat, Martine Ben Amar
Maximilien Cazayous Doyen (Dean)
Faculté des Sciences Université de
Paris-Cité
9:15-9:45 Françoise
Argoul: Capturing
the music of living systems: from human voice to electroencephalogram rhythms
with time-frequency analysis
9:45-10:15 Stéphane Douady: Yves Couder: A complex man, for complex systems.
10:15-10:45 Benoît Roman: Inflatable architectured elastomers
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Yves Pomeau: Flood of rivers as a subcritical bifurcation.
11:30-12:00 Bruno Andreotti:
A gravity driven inverse cascade controls
the size distribution of raindrops
12:00-12:30 Mingming Wu: Biological matrices regulate cell and tissue mechanics
12:30-14:00 Lunch is taken in caterers or restaurants in
the neighborhood. Lunch is not provided by the meeting.
Session
II Biological
Morphogenesis
14:00-14:30 Yasmine
Meroz: Plant Tropisms as a Window on
Emergent Memory and Computation in Distributed Systems
14:30-15:00 Alain Goriely: Sachs’ education and the strange dynamics of potted plants
15:00-15:30 Etienne
Couturier: Lokhart’s law a quantitative predictive tool ?
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:15 Tomas Bohr: How leaves manage extreme pressure differences: Modelling the
complex cellular network for water and sugar flow through a pine needle
16:15-16:45 Ray Goldstein: Stochastic Geometry of Simple Multicellular Organisms
16:45-17:15 S39 Philippe Marmottant: Solving the mystery of embolism repair in plants after
a period of drought
17:15-17:35 S49 Germain Rousseaux:
The
self-organization of grassy mounds on water or mottureaux
17:40-18:00 Michel Juffé: Friendly philosophical reflexions with Yves on history and memory
18:00 In memoriam Julien Moukhtar,
Laurent Limat
18h30 Reception buffet at Amphithéâtre Buffon
Wednesday,
5th June, 2024-Amphithéâtre Buffon, 15 rue Hélène Brion
Université de Paris @Grands Moulins
Session III Hydrodynamics
and instabilities
9:00-9:30 Anke Lindner: Transport dynamics of spherical microparticles and fibers in inertioelastic vortex flows
9:30-10:00 Hamid Kellay: Experiments on turbulent friction in 2D
10:00-10:30 S47 Julien Dervaux: Nonlinear phototaxis and instabilities in suspensions of light-seeking algae
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Anne Juel: Oscillatory dynamics in viscous fingering
11:15-11:45 Daniel Bonn: Living polymers: Entangled active T. Tubifex worms
11:45-12:15 Suzie Protière: The swelling and spreading of drops on fibers
12:15-14:00 Lunch-Installation of the Posters
Session IV Hydrodynamics,
turbulence, transport
14:00-14:30 Laurette
Tuckerman: Exotic
patterns in Faraday waves
14:30-15:00 Bérangère Dubrulle: Vortex
interactions in a von Karman flow
15:00-15:30 Stephan Fauve: Stationarity constraint on the energy flux
and intermittency
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:20 S33 Eric
Lajeunesse: Self-organization of morphology and sediment transport
in alluvial rivers
16:20-16:40
S12 Martin Chaigne: Emergence of
singularities in dissolution patterns
16:40-17:00
S21 Laurent Duchemin: Dimple drainage
before the coalescence of a droplet deposited on a smooth substrate
17:00-17:20 S31 Hugues Chaté: Robust edge flows in swarming bacteria colonies
17:30-19:30 Poster session
Thursday 6th June 2024
29 rue d’Ulm Paris ACCESS via
24 RUE LHOMOND 75005
Ecole Normale Supérieure–PSL*
Amphithéâtre Jaurès
Session V New
avenues in non-linear physics
9:00-9:30 Ludovic Pauchard: Morphogenetic processes: singularities induced by mechanical instabilities
9:30-10:00 Masaki Sano: Cell
Sheet Dynamics and Mechanics for Structure Formation
10:00-10:30 Arezki Boudaoud: Noise and robustness in plant morphogenesis
10:30-10:45 Break
Session V I New avenues in non-linear physics
10:45-11:15 Itamar Procaccia:
Anomalous Elasticity and Emergent Dipole Screening
in Amorphous Solids
11:15-11:45 Herbert Levine: Fluctuation-dominated Fronts; New Wine in Old Bottles
11:45-12:15 Dan Harris: Capillary-wave propulsion: from walking to surfing
12:15-14:00 Lunch
Session VII Walking droplets
14:00-14:30 Emmanuel Fort: Water
waves in time varying media: from wave-particle duality to time reversal and to
antigravity
14:30-15:00 John W. M. Bush: Pilot wave hydrodynamics
15:00-15:20 S45 Giuseppe Pucci: Self-propulsion of drops floating on an immiscible liquid bath
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:20 S36 Patrice Le Gal: On the wanderings of a ludion in a corral: in search of a quantum analogy
16:20-16:40 S50 Pedro Saenz: From walking droplets to galloping bubbles
16:40-17:00 S8 Ambre Bouillant: Self-excitation of Leidenfrost stars
17:00-17:20 S27 Philippe Gondret: A kaleidoscope of impulse water waves generated by a vertical wall motion
17:20-17:40 S16 Stéphanie Deboeuf: Compaction
and buckling of an elastic sheet under confinement by rigid walls
17:40-18:00 S1 Mokhtar Adda-Bedia: Nonlinear Elastic Fracture Mechanics
18:30 Aperitif in the garden of the
Ecole Normale Supérieure located nearby the Amphi Jaurès
Friday 7th June 2024
Ecole Normale Supérieure–PSL* Amphithéâtre
Jaurès
29 rue d’Ulm Paris 75005 ACCESS via the
24 rue LHOMOND
Session VIII New avenues in non-linear physics
9:00-9:30 Vincent Hakim: Active mechanics, force transmission and
supracellular actomyosin cable formation
9:30-10:00 Jay Fineberg: The Physics of the Onset of Frictional Motion: How does friction start?
10:00-10:30 Elsa Bayart: Interaction between slowly slipping and locked frictional interfaces
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Boris Shraiman: In search of Emergent Simplicity
11:15-11:45 Linda Cummings: Simulating nanoparticle formation by pulsed laser induced dewetting
11:45-12:15 Nicolas Vandewalle: Cracking the capillary code
12:15-14:00 Lunch
Session IX New avenues in non-linear physics
14:00-14:30 Emmanuel Villermaux: 20 000 Aerosols under the Seas (learning from analogies)
14:30-15:00
Baptiste Auvity, Sébastien Kuchly, Antonin Eddi and Stéphane Perrard: Sea ice
15:00-15:30 experiments: from lab to field
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:15 S43 Anand Oza: Coarse-grained models for schooling wings in fast flows
16:15-16:35 S29
Frédéric Moisy: Wind waves
and viscous solitons
16:35-16:55 S25
François Gallaire: A
gap-averaged model for Faraday waves in Hele-Shaw cells
Closing
conference
17:00-17:30 Mathias Fink: Gouttes, antennes et retournement temporel
Amphithéâtre Buffon is located 15 rue Hélène Brion Paris 75013. Métro line
14 ; bus line 89 ; RER C Bibliothèque
François Mitterrand.
Amphithéâtre Jaurès is located 29 rue d’Ulm, ACCESS via the 24 rue
LHOMOND Paris 75005
Métro line 10 Cardinal Lemoine or Place Monge or Censier Daubenton ;
bus line 89 Rue Soufflot ; RER C Luxembourg.
Organizers’ Phone # 0682287368