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SUMMARY:MEchanics GAthering -MEGA- Seminar: New tools for the mechanics of
  biofilaments
DTSTART:20181018T161500
DTEND:20181018T173000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Lessinnes\, SMA\, EPFL\nAbstract Many biological obje
 cts present themselves as elongated slender structures. One may for instan
 ce mention proteins\, polymers\, DNA\, bacterial fibres\, fungis\, stems\,
  roots\, arteries or neurons to cite but a few. It so happens that these b
 io-filaments are often organised as bundles of sub-filaments. The interpla
 y of the growth and mechanical properties of these sub-entities generates 
 the subtle geometric and mechanical properties of the global structure.\nI
 n this presentation\, I will cover recent advances and point out exciting 
 challenges in three key problems. How to infer the mechanical properties o
 f the filament from their microscopic structure? How to infer the macrosco
 pic properties of spring-like filaments? How to effortlessly decide the st
 ability of various equilibria? We will see that these problems raise inter
 esting mathematical questions but also that they are of direct practical r
 elevance. Some of our examples will be drawn from biology and others fro m
 an-made structures\, all of them will involve nonlinear equations and stra
 tagems for handling them.
LOCATION:MED 2 2423 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=MED22423
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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