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SUMMARY:Locomotion Strategies in Granular Media
DTSTART:20180322T161500
DTEND:20180322T171500
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Baptiste Darbois-Texier - Universidad de Santiago de Chil
 e (Usach)\nAbstract Desert is a hard place to live. However\, some specie
 s of snakes\, lizards and bugs are very adapted to this hostile environmen
 t. For exemple\, the fringe lizard burrows under the hot surface of sand t
 o escape predators and heat\, the sandfish lizard swims in sand as a fish 
 and the rattlesnake lifts alternatively his body in order to climb steep d
 unes. In this talk\, we will explore the mechanics that underlies these st
 rategies of locomotion and see how they interact with the special rheology
  of granular media. This approach will lead us to imagine new modes of loc
 omotion operating in granular materials and that may be useful to develop 
 robots for these environments.\n\nBio Baptiste Darbois-Texier leads multi
 disciplinary researches on fluid and granular mechanics. He conducted his 
 PhD on the trajectories of sport balls and a first postdoc on fluid flows 
 generated by phase changes. He is now a postdoctoral fellowship at the Uni
 versity of Santiago in Chile and works on locomotion in granular media.
LOCATION:MED 0 1418 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418
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